The Crispus Attucks Blog: Mr. President, I'll Gladly Eat More Crow...

Friday, January 29, 2010

Mr. President, I'll Gladly Eat More Crow...

...if you continue what you'd done over the past few days.

President Obama showed today, by going into the lion's den, he is a capable and highly skilled political leader. The format with the Republicans in some ways resembled the UK's questions for the Prime Minister, and was just as compelling for those who follow this type of discourse. Obama used his intelligence ans unflappability to show, in their own forum, how petulant and revisionist the Republicans are. He commanded the debate by pointing out the hypocrisy and inconsistency in the Republicans assertions, particularly about the stimulus and health care reform. He took the GOP to the woodshed and gave them a spanking.

Obama operated from the standpoint of the incontrovertible and left the opposition with no valid truthful response. Moreover, he made no demands that the Republicans simply fall in line for his proposals, he simply asked them to engage in the process of politics, versus obstruction. It was masterful, and the GOP has to feel on notice: Obama is more formidable than we may think. I'm thankful for that.

Mr. President, I'm ready for more crow.

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Crispus Attucks?

According to PBS.org:

"In 1770, Crispus Attucks, a black man, became the first casualty of the American Revolution when he was shot and killed in what became known as the Boston Massacre. Although Attucks was credited as the leader and instigator of the event, debate raged for over as century as to whether he was a hero and a patriot, or a rabble-rousing villain".

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p24.html

From its earliest days black people have fought and died for this country, in every war we've fought, as soldiers and patriots. The average person, if they were to judge from the media and their lifetime of misteaching, would believe all we've ever been were slaves, civil rights workers, athletes, entertainers, welfare recipients and criminals.

In the minds of many people, Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, or both, are the leaders of Black America. The utter ridiculousness of such thinking is apparent if its applied it in the inverse, say by considering Newt Ginrich or Sarah Palin to be the leaders of White America.

Black Americans are a complex mosiac within the expansive tapestry of this country and its history. Our sweat, blood, and toil helped create and maintain America, and we've paid a price higher than those paid by many others. This blog is a reflection of that point of view.

Why are you talking anyway?

Although we've seen many changes in our society, for me, there's still a lot of misunderstanding about Black Americans and our role in shaping this society...and not just by people who are not black.

Al Sharpton is not Black America. Jesse Jackson is not Black America. Neither was Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas, or Cripus Attucks, but they all were Black Americans. And despite the rhetoric used against them during their lives and times, they all have proved their love for their country by challenging it to be true to its promise of justice and equality.

I feel the same way as they did. They used their voices. I want to use mine.

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