|
Can Barrack Obama Ever Be
President?
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
By Pianapue Kept Early
Can Barrack Obama ever be
president of the United States of America?
This is a question I would like to answer with a resounding yes.
However, with the historical realities hanging over the human race over
the past 1500 years, I have my doubts. And
please understand that I am not helping to cost Obama the White House.
This is simply a reality of racism, and the system in which he wants to
be president has overtly and covertly enslaved, colonized, and degraded people
of other races: American Indians,
Blacks, Japanese, and Koreans, among others. Actually, Barrack Obama’s bid for
the white house is a challenge to white people all over the world.
Those of us who are not necessarily origins of this culture, are not
white, and are closely following every step of this election, see it as a way to
gauge white people to determine whether or not they will ever allow someone who
is a descendant of Black people (enslaved, colonized, brutalized by lynching,
maiming - the list goes on) can be part of that system.
The world is watching to see whether or not
many white leaders around the world like John Howard (past leader of Australia);
Gordon Brown (currently of England); and Nicolas Sarkozy (currently of France)
among others, will embrace an Obama presidency like a Bill Clinton, or George
Bush presidency. The world is watching to see whether they too can now
transcend their hatred for Black and Native peoples and allow a simple person
like Barrack Obama to lead the so-called “new world.”
The whole world is watching and many
“minority” Americans are participating in this process (some, for the first
time) in the United States not because we believe all white people have put away
their racial hatred for black people, but to see whether the white ruling class
can live out what they claim to be their mantra:
Love, in the name of Christ, or love in the name of God, or whether they
truly believe in “Government for and by the people.”
Or whether they can believe in the democratic values they “cherish”
so much that they fight and kill to impose on other around the world.
This is a motivation for many observers from around the world.
The world is watching to see how the Western
media will portray the process of electing Barrack Obama to the “White
House.” Some might boldly mention
that a “Black Man in the White House.”
What a day that will be! But
we have few more days before that will come to pass.
As Bassa People (Liberia) say, “Few more days, not years,” left
before we all see that both White America and its prejudiced media, will
proclaim the first black man as president.
I
am not pessimistic because I believe Barrack Obama will be the next president of
the United States, regardless of the racial hatred and prejudice harbored
against black people. I must
however hasten to add that an Obama presidency will not mean that white people
will lose their privilege positions, or their system of capitalism or their
place in it, whether they are democrats or republicans.
They will just keep a tight eye on an Obama presidency.
For
some Black people, they will think and believe that because one black man is
president, it means that the white ruling class has overcome their racism or
hatred for black people. To think
in those terms will not only be simplistic, but also a fatal philosophy and
mistake on their part. Also, for
some white people, they will claim to have “come a long way,” and are doing
all in their power to promote “equality.”
Well, that too, will be simplistic and a fatal philosophy because as long
as we dwell and delve in a system that seeks to divide and conquer, in a system
that profits in slavery and slavery-like environment, one black man being
president is not going to change a darn thing.
It simply speaks to the fact that Barrack and Michelle Obama are like
David taking on the Goliaths of the world.
I
will not be surprise if Barrack Obama does not win this election.
It will not be because he is not competent, or because he is “lazy”,
or a “whiner” or a “mad black man” and all the other stereotypes some
people uphold or hold over black people. It
will be because he is not white enough, regardless of his mother’s bloodline.
It will also be because white people, including some staunch democrats,
cannot see a black man as president in their life time.
It will be more than just because he is “inexperienced.”
It will be because the KKK groups in various forms:
from the Christian Church to the Congress, and the Judiciary, cannot
afford to have an intelligent, wise, simple, serious, God-fearing Black man to
be their leader.
The
American society is still flawed, despite its own boast of justice, peace,
equality, rights, and the good things they like to boast of.
None of these things are actually happening en masse for blacks like it
is happening en masse for whites. For
example, how many black people and Hispanics are in jail for crimes they did not
commit? Some of these inmates were
falsely accused, wrongly convicted and placed on death row, because someone
wanted to score among their white counterparts and cohorts.
So, the reality is that there is no justice, there is no equity, there is
no peace, and there are no rights for many Native Americans (American Indians),
black people, and Hispanics in the United States, because we continue to dwell
and delve in a system that undermines the intelligence, credibility, and wisdom
of people who are not white. I will
not even mention the plight of Native Americans (American Indians).
That is another sermon.
Well,
Barrack Obama, I take my hat off to you, because you are wise enough to
challenge a system that shuts you out. I
take off my hat to you because you are brave to play by their rules and win.
I take off my hat to you because you have no doubt in yourself, and so,
you are where you are. May the good
God continue to empower you and Michelle, you and the girls, and all of us who
believe in you. Like Jamal
Munnerlyn says, “Peuce.” And
finally, like Jesus says, “Let those who have ears listen!”
-
|
