Anne Wortham Speaks for Many

 

Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Philosophical Association. She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer's television series, "A World of Ideas." The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, A World of Ideas. Dr. Wortham is author of The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues. She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and cultural marginality. Recently, she has published articles on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness. Shortly after an interview in 2004 she was awarded tenure.




No He Can't

by Anne Wortham

Fellow Americans,




Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America .




I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival - all that I know about the history of the United States of America , all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America . Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn't look like them. I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration - political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University 's Kennedy School of Government.




I would have to believe that "fairness" is the equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.




Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead - and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.




So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a black man to the office of the president of the United States , the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over - and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black person. So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton , Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to - Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine - what little there is left - for the chance to feel good.




There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.

So why the endorsement by Powell?

Source: http://www.nbra.info/


Democrats Denounced Gen. Colin Powell as a "House Negro". Before Gen Colin Powell adopted the Democratic Party's socialist policies and endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, the Democrats denigrated him as a "House Negro."

Uncovered is this video that was shot by WKRN Video Journalist Beau Fleenor at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee which shows Al Sharpton demeaning Gen. Colin Powell as a "House Negro." The Question: "Rev. Al Sharpton, do you believe that political leaders such as Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell are viewed as "house negroes" by other African Americans, by going along with the President against their beliefs?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdVjrBY5-F0

This article appeared in a Portland, Oregon paper and is one of many exposing how hardly a ripple of protest was made by black Democrats when Harry Belafonte publicly denounced Gen. Colin Powell as a "House Negro."

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2002/10/27103.shtml

Obama Disagrees with Gen. Colin Powell. This is a surprising video wherein Obama makes the candid confession that he is not qualified to be president.

My reply to a CNN Blog regarding Rev. Wright and Barack Obama

I can't believe you all don't get the point, nor see when you are being misled.

Ralph W. Conner wants to tell you "20 years ago when..." NO, Mr. CONNER--the race warring that you Barack Obama supporters have reignited was set aside 40 (!!) years ago when Mr. Cone was at his peak!

(See below: Its all on the internet!)

Dr. Cone is best known for his ground breaking works, BLACK THEOLOGY & BLACK POWER (1969) and A BLACK THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION (1970); he is also the author of the highly acclaimed GOD OF THE OPPRESSED (1975), and of MARTIN & MALCOLM & AMERICA: A DREAM OR A NIGHTMARE? (1991); ...

Sean Hannity is willing to catch and report the liars, Mr. Conner and others, and if that hurts your feelings that's just too bad. You all seem to dwell on the emotional rather than the informative side of what you are hearing and seeing.

MY PARENTS tried to squelch race hating under Rev. Martin Luther King in the early 1960s--40 PLUS years ago; but all of YOUR parents kept feeding you--within the last 20 YEARS--that THEY were being hated on because of their race and THAT's why they weren't getting that job, or house, or ..., going to "church" and listening to the likes of the "Rev. Wrights" of the era. Leaving church after giving an offering to "the reverend" and helping him to his mercedes; blasting the gangster rap that defined the ills of "living in the hood" as they returned home. I should know. I was there. And here THEY are back to blaming and hating the conservatives who are willing to point it out.

Funny "Luda" ain't doing too bad, doesn't seem too poor... or "Chris", or... Rev. Wright or Barack Obama! Any Black that doesn't want too is NOT suffering in America! I am SO tired of that lie.

It was FORTY years ago, Ralph! And THATs the mentality Obama represents--same as his FRIENDS, Rev. Wright, Mr. Ayers, and a host of others--and they get PAID for it! From people like ALL OF YOU who cast the vote for him November 4th.

It's not ALL about what JOB the GOVERNMENT is going to get, or protect, for you. Don't be the "Generation of the Lazy" waiting for handouts, after everyone before you has worked hard so make America what it is, for you to have your turn. Don't dumb it down then pass it on to your younger siblings or your children to fix.

More power to anyone who will NOT accept the character flaws Barack Obama posesses as these particular ones should NOT be found in the President of The United States of America--The Leader of the FREE WORLD.

7 Days...

It is exactly one week from the most important election of all time; whether we will, for the first time in America, elect a socialist to run (rule?) the country.

Some still say or believe this is about electing "the first Black" American President, but almost unfortunately--it is not.

It would be easy to make that choice, given two candidates with character worthy of being called President of the United States of America. Justifiably those who like to play the race card might be able to declare their candidate was not elected just because of the color of their skin, given they were a person of good character.

But nothing about Barack Obama's character is good, for America, or the world for that matter; Or makes me want to address him as my political leader; as "the President"; leader of the country I have always been proud to have been born in, Michelle.

And the 97% of Blacks, and numerous Hispanics--supporting 'the minority', who will vote in a man with such ill will... Who began at an early age studying and adopting radical theories and teachings, and seeking out dangerous relationships with harmful and negative thinkers; To disregard being "played-a-fool" by the charisma and false promises this SOCIALIST is promoting in order to win them over; To vote for him just because he is black... what a sad state America has fallen into.

This can NOT be blamed on President Bush.

This is not about "what Bush did..." or didn't do. THIS IS ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF THE MAN, BARACK H. OBAMA. The lame excuse that you are 'getting back at' Bush for the war, or for the economy, or for the past 8 years will on prove to harm YOU, and in the very short term.

Barack Obama wants to be the first black "ruler" of America, not leader. His "change" is the wrong change.

What America-or some one, individual American--has done to disappoint you does not justify a vote for a candidate who is set on turning America away from what she already stands for; which is far better than that which his "change" could EVER provide or represent.

I hope--when you step in that voting booth on November 4th--you will think of the greatEST good. And it is not Barack Obama.

"The Patriot"

2 Reasons to to a Liberal Democrat

There Are Only Two Reaons To Be A Liberal Democrat

I can think of only two reasons why a person would be a Liberal Democrat. Neither are good.

1) You are stupid, and can't manage your own life--thus need third party intervention, like that of the government.

You need someone to tell you how to think. You can't do it for yourself. You make unwise choices. Can't control your own spending, or habits.

You need someone or something to define the parameters (...that means, "tell you how much", in case I'm using words too large to comprehend...) of what you can spend, or do... with the aspects of your life. How big a car you should drive--as if someone knows your family's activities and what best suites the transportation needs of your group. How cool you should set your thermostat--again, monitoring your state of being and what is best for your state of relaxation and comfort. (Funny, I thought even the liberal sucking media could no longer hide the now well known and (“ inconvenient”?) truth that known the biggest proponent of Global Warming taxation and legislation is a man who can cool 23 homes a month with the cost he pays to cool just one of his homes. "Mr. Gore for President", eh?) Or maybe you need them to tell you to stop eating Big Macs™ for a while and take the dog for a walk after a good, lean steak and a side of vegetables.

You want “the village” to raise your child. You want someone else to intervene in the personal or family concerns that might be affecting your child’s ability to learn in the same manner as another person’s child. You are unable to control the ways and doings of your children without government legislated controls, on even what types of physical activities they can best cope with; because you believe that a governing body knows better than your own child if they don’t mind the grueling effort if takes to play tackle football versus choosing table tennis. What, with all the controls in place your child cannot even participate in a three-legged race for someone’s (???) fear of injury for having fun!

2) And if not stupid, then you are non-trusting of others, prejudice, or probably a Racist. You are worried that, without a governing body or Government controls on people, you—and others like you—will not get their fair-share of whatever it is you seek. That opportunities will not be distributed with equality among men.

Keeping it just to America, you are sure that Americans controlling their own industries will act on a self-centered or biased nature that has them including and excluding persons of their choosing. That benefits, goods, services and wealth will be dis-equally distributed or made available, based on subjectivity.

The biggest historical cause for subjectivity in America has been racism and legislated Segregation. So why, then, if we trust men to their own judgment would you not expect to see prejudice and racism in the common man’s consciousness as his normal course of behaving and thinking? And with this country still majority White, Blacks and Hispanics are programmatically and systematically led to—by following the tenets and preachings of social, Liberal, Democratic thinkers and “leaders” who continually orate pessimist thinking—a belief that Whites will not be fair in their dealings with others therefore Government has to legislate and control the affairs of (these) men.

You are prejudice, and start your day on the premise that persons different than yourself are also prejudice of persons not like themselves; and that when you encounter them in your daily activities you can expect they will not treat you fairly. So you decide to interact with and support only those who are like yourself—therefore choosing your race, or perhaps your gender, as a first measure of whom to trust. You become a Racist.

As much as truth hurts, this is—and has been--the underlayment of Liberal and Democratic thinking for way too long. Trust, and faith in men, are never promoted among Liberal Democrats.

It took Republicans to start the defeat of this way of thinking, with men like President Abraham Lincoln. But now, 143 years later, the believer’s in his legislation have ensured an association with his political party’s name means you are out of touch with and unable to relate to the common American. They want to brand you an “Uncle Tom:, an “elitist”, “rich”, or White.

That Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King might have ever been a Republican unnerves Blacks who have been led to believe the Republican Party provides no support to their causes or concerns. And sadly, the Blacks who continue to believe this are willing to nominate and hope to elect a 2008 candidate for President of the United States who is the epitome of Liberal Democratic thinking. This presidential candidate is running on a platform that he will bring “change”.

The change that is needed is a movement away from membership in a political Party that promotes pessimism, as the Democratic party or being a Liberal does.

People, no matter how difficult the emotional challenge, must begin learning to think—and believe--for themselves, and stop making presumptions about others; but meet and know people individually and personally to grow relationships, especially between races.

No one is asking anyone to take away ethnic differences and become a uni-body of non-distinct thinking. This, of course, is the most wonderful aspect of American civilization—our diversity!

But as long as the Liberal Democratic rhetoric is lack of self-confidence, lack of trust, and constant discord I stay to my belief, that to choose to be a Liberal, or a Democrat, is limited to two reasons. And I’m glad I am neither.

“The Patriot”
September 7, 2008

LIberals, Blacks, and the Media Deny Plain Truth

Thursday, September 4, 2008




Liberals, Blacks, and the Media Deny Plain Truth.

Liberals, Blacks, devout Democrats, and the media continue to deny the truth about having selected Barack Obama as their candidate for President, no matter the facts put right in their face. The truth is, he is the wrong candidate, and many have chosen him just because he is black.It is an utter embarassment to see how many Blacks have such a lack of self-esteem that they choose Barack no matter his lack of credentials, no matter his openly racist positions--an institution the purport to oppose, no matter his tax-us-to-death policies--which they believe will not affect them; and, as if he is the last black man in America who could hold the position of President of this great country. With some polls showing upwards of 92 - 97% of Blacks voting for Barack, I am glad to be on of the "3%" who strongly states "I won't!"I stay surprised at the apologist whites, who brushed aside the warnings and voted-in Barack, a racist who plans to tax the upper and middle-classed--mostly white (per census records)--as his way of repaying blacks for the "sins of the fathers"; the old rhethoric people of his affliation have unjustly supported for too long. These apologists might want to turn a blind eye, but I base my belief on the "proud" relationship Barack tells us he has with Jeremiah Wright--a follower of James Cone--both who teach continued hatred for White America.What surprises me the most--being the same age as Barack Obama--is his suggestion through his memoirs that his life was a shattering trek through racial indifference and the suffering of persistent attacks against him by Whites; yet I recall experiencing nothing so traumatic having grown up in an overwhelmingly majority white, highly political populus of the country during the same time period he was growing up. Barack, Rev. Wright, and a whole host of other "minority leaders", and minority "celebrities" continue to slight, slander, and put-down current and new generations of Whites who had NOTHING to do with--nor feel inherently the same as their ancestors about--racial differences. Yet Barack is touted as the great reuniter? He is supposedly bringing "change"? Liberals and devout Democrats know that Barack has the most liberal voting record in the US Senate. They must expect that with electing Barack they will have a shoe-in to support their agenda of continuing to demoralize and somehow punish America by taking away God, sanctity of religion, respect for unborn children, and certain American family values--like freedom of choice, and the continuation of our second amendment rights. They must beleive that he will continue to fight against we Americans whose goals are to maintain education--not socialization--in schools, to encourage a competitive spirit, and to encourage success. They must know and be glad that Barack will make sure the world sees American pride being diminished, and that he will promote that we should be ashamed to have become the greatest country on this earth.There are so many other strong, Black, American leaders whom the Democrats could have "vetted" to become President of the United States of America. But these would be the blacks who have been ridiculed as being outside of the "typical" standard blacks have lately placed upon their so-called leaders. These would be blacks who suffered little or overcame any racial strife they may have faced; who didn't need government assistance to feed and house themselves or their family; who succeeded in the American corporate structure by way of their ability--as far as they could achieve with the barriers they might have faced--not because they were handed a victim's pass to the top.It hasn't helped for anyone to have helped bring Barack Obama this close to the Presidency of the United States. Any votes cast for him in order to "not appear racist" have helped re-generate one of the biggest racial divides since the 1960s, both within races and between races. But the biased media won't report the real stories being told around the water cooler...Blacks are threatening "all hell will break lose" if Barack loses. Is that some kind of threat? If so, it is one I have no fear of standing up against. Long before I vote in a candidate because of the color of their skin I will just not vote at all. And since I do not intend to let any man take away my right to vote, I think I'll remain part of that 3% who will vote based on "...the content..." of a man's character. I love America too much to base it on anything less.

"The Patriot"

An Open letter to Barack Obama and his friends

03-20-2008 Revised 03/21/08

Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, Reverend Doctor Jeremiah Wright, Reverend Doctor Jesse Jackson, Revered Doctor Alfred Sharpton, Doctor Malik Shabazz, et al.Cc: Reverend Doctor Warren Stewart, Reverend Jarod Maupin, NAACP, President George Bush, Editors of all publications, all mediaDear Sirs,I am greatly saddened by the current state of America, due to the internal strife you are causing to make a career for yourselves. The internal strife is as is we were in 1968 and earlier, and just beginning to fight racism.Thank you Reverend Doctors, and all, you who continue to start your day thanking God for a new one(!) then stepping out to achieve utter damage to humankind’s will and spirit. WHO ARE ANY OF YOU to prescribe who is not worthy of existing on this earth--and in the name of God?Just how mean and vulgar of a MAN are you men going to be? THIS is the legacy you want to leave, defining what Blacks contributed to America? THIS is the platform of what you endear as the "Black Church"?If you really believe you can crush the spirits of White Americans--especially males--thinking that one day you will awake and not have to see any person of any race for which you find disfavor… you are sadly challenged, and you will be greatly defeated.You scorn a current generation of white men who had NOTHING to do with what happened to our FOREFATHERS; who have pursued treating you like an equal, i.e. the goal of the non-racist America you purport to desire; While you raise a new generation of black men teaching them to continue harboring, festering, and lingering on a past for which they did NOT experience; and might never… diminishing EVERY effort and bit of blood shed by those same forefathers who fought for equality with sincerity.Then the media wants to provide "buzz words" and "talking points" to those who cannot think and speak for themselves. They want to tell you "White Americans fear…" what you are saying?! FEAR?Just how much do you think any man's heart and head can bear (!) when the media provides you a platform to spew your hate and venom and achieve the goal you set--to hurt, hate and continue to divide; while (attempting to ) leave White Americans appearing guilty of some sin, with no outlet who will allow them to speak their minds without recourse from YOU! FEAR?!It is not fear. It is disgust and disappointment. Disappointment in having stood up for their black friends and loved ones, against their mother's and father's, their grandparents, and even some of their own and expectedly “former” friend's wishes and ways of thinking. Because color was never a factor.Mr. Obama and Reverend Doctors, you have just tossed an entire generation of White American men aside, who stood in support of your historical cause; who found no fault in you; who weren't looking at your skin color first--as you obviously do when you awake every morning. The majority of current and future generation White Americans want to topple racism--only to find you men have decided to perpetuate its ugly legacy; then you smile in their face and enjoy the privilege of your "black" and other minority clubs and associations deemed acceptable by government and industry edicts of "diversity" and "inclusion" while their affiliations in majority white organizations is not condoned and even illegal.To the people: I can only hope that the strong minded of us -- of all races --no matter how few, will realize and remain cohesive in out goal of ensuring racial hate is NOT going to be a platform America stands on. It will be easy to become as ignorant and angry, mean and vulgar as these men who are so-called "championing human rights". Their career-minded goal is to achieve racial divide. We must defeat their divisiveness and refuse to perpetuate the hate, even as the small minority that we are; for all great accomplishments even the establishment of Christian faith is the result of the minority of men, women, and children who stood tall and strong and refused to be defeated.You men --all--owe your family members, your loved ones, your parishioners, your neighbors, this country, and all nations who watch us and listen to you, a huge apology; and a turn about in your thinking. Your intellect is overshadowed by a black cloud of hate. What power you would actually possess if you turned that hatred into overwhelming love for ALL HUMANKIND, as you must have been taught somewhere in your theological learnings.I pray that God will return to your hearts and heads, and provide you the courage to correct this disease you have perpetuated, institutionalized, and now suffer from. I pray that He will cure you of your ills, and motivate you to free the future generations from your imprisonment, and support men developing their own friendships and relationships; allow men to form their own conclusions and make their own judgments--individual to individual, man to man, as human-beings first... "...judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” (Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr)

Angela Peters