I had to chill for a few!

I had to take a minute and observe.  This presidential election, the ecomomic fiasco, and the state of our minds that seem to be deteriorating along with the economy.  The marketing tactics of the elections are playing to the lowest mentality of the people.  The images of Sarah Palin on the front of Newsweek magazine holding a shotgun over her shoulder, is surely playing to the lowest mentality of a certain group of AmeriKKKins who were not going to vote since they couldn't see themselves voting for an African American, will almost certainly vote for the person that  APPEARS to be one of them. 

Sadly, most Black Americans are voting for Barack Obama because he is highly educated, articulate, good looking and most of all he is an African American.  Yet, his brilliance somehow does not allow him to move forward on his game, but to play the McCain/Palin game of personality/image politics that his campaign most certainly used against the Clinton machine. 

What a shame!!

Comments

[hagar's daughter]

Ensayn!,

I have recently posted my support of Sen. Obama, which in reality is a vote AGAINST McCain-Palin. Every election season I am just frustrated because I'm usually voting against someone's ideology and politics rather than FOR something. I hope I'm explaining my thoughts clearly.

For the first time I've gone beyond frustration to feeling tired - exhausted.This political game is just offensive and quite embarassing on the global front.

I have grown tired of this political system catering to personalities, negative ads, lies, and scandals while injustices continue.

With all of this, I will continue to vote in honor of those who died to ensure that I am able to exercise my right as a citizen of this country.

[Khadija]

Hello there, Ensayn!

{excited waving}

I've accepted the fact that a plurality of the American people are idiots. And that this country is an idiocracy, just like the movie of the same title. A colleague of Morris Berman (the author of "Dark Ages America") explained the mindset. Sorry for the long quote from the book, but I think it bears repeating:

"You are missing the point. Most folks in Ohio are pretty basic, not very successful, and not particularly happy with their lives. Believe me, I know, I was born and raised there. When they see Bush getting emotional and stumbling over elementary English words, they identify with him, whereas they find Kerry cool and intelligent, and they experience this as threatening, above their heads."

"To them, Kerry's wife, who speaks several languages, comes off as un-American, a kind of alien being; and his kids, en route to professional careers, make them feel uncomfortable about their own kids, who are in dead-end jobs and perhaps, like the Bush daughters, getting pulled over for drunk driving."

"In short, Kerry stirs deep anxieties about their selves, whereas Bush, BECAUSE he is a bungler, soothes those anxieties, reassures folks that their failure and anti-intellectualism is more 'genuine,''down to earth.' Bush also, it seems to me, validates their rigidity, their insistence on having simple answers, and their repressed violence. Finally, he tells them that the American Dream is alive and well, and so keeps their undercurrent of panic at arm's length." Dark Ages America, pg. 299.
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Well! This is how the idiot plurality of White Americans felt this way about a smart White man & his equally accomplished wife. How does anyone think they feel about a smart Black man & his equally accomplished wife?
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At this point, I rejoice in the opportunities that I have to save myself and my loved ones. Several people who are dear to me are on fixed incomes due to health problems; and as a consequence have a MUCH harder struggle. I praise God for the fighting chance that I have and pray to make the best of it.

Peace, blessings and solidarity.

[hagar's daughter]

Khadija said, "Well! This is how the idiot plurality of White Americans felt this way about a smart White man & his equally accomplished wife. How does anyone think they feel about a smart Black man & his equally accomplished wife?"

I think I can summed this up in one word: UPPITY. Isn't this the word that's been coming up repeatedly?

[Alisha]

Hey Ensayn!!!! Glad you're back. . . What's the solution????

[Khadija]

Hagar's Daughter,

You're so right. "Uppity" sums up the reaction in one word.

Peace, blessings and solidarity.

[Laura]

Like Khadija, I feel that most white americans are voting on their insecurities. They feel that when they see someone more successful than them they resent it. They are not stupid as most people say. They have miserable lives. That is why Britney Spears drama was so successful. It was her fall from grace that make Americans feel good about their unhappy lives. It the Britney Spears drama was a distraction

I have found that ego can be a mofo. It can make people do things that are against their own best interest (i.e. Black and Black crime and violence).

I am doing what I can to get folks to vote for Obama but when people voted for Bush 2x and think Palin is the "bees' knees," I figure I got to get an escape plan together. I have to see myself and my children as worlds citizen and start living as such.

I'm not depressed about it because I am doing better than most Americans and I am preparing my children to be world citizens. (By the time they graduate from high school they will know Latin, and speak 2 of 3 languages French, Chinese or Spanish. I figure if Africans and Europeans can speak two or three why not my children

I hope that the economic downturn will get Americans to vote for their best interest instead of voting to boost their damaged egos and low self worth. But I am not holding my breath through.