Politics Anyone?

HERE IS OUR FIRST GUEST POST FROM: WILLIE E. THIGPEN

Check this out. Something to think about.
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> I am practically seething with all of the black people, especially so
> called "intelligent", "educated", black people giving a million tired
> excuses of why they won't vote for Barack Obama and will vote for a Hillary Clinton:
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> 1. He's not ready/He's not experienced.
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> Man please. You have the top 3 Democratic candidates with 1 Senate
> term under their belt. Hillary as the First Lady as experienced? Not
> one executive decision is made being as the first lady. That's like
> Stedman recommending a book, endorsing a candidate, or having his own
> show...SO WHAT.
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> 2. White America is not ready for a Black president.
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> Whaaa? Was White America ready for slavery to end? Giving us the right
> to vote? Desegregation of our society? When did black people ever let
> white people dictate when and where we were getting our just due, our
> break? We've always stepped up and demanded what we wanted, or we were
> either hitting the streets and tearin' up some stuff, escapin',
> marching, or picketing. White America is ready for a Black President
> because Barack Obama is the right man for President, PERIOD.
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> Besides, that never stopped anyone from voting for Jesse Jackson, a
> man with NO political experience AT ALL from almost snatching the
> Democratic nomination in 1984, and coming darn close again in 1988 20 YEARS AGO.
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> 3. Barak is half black and half white, so he's not really black anyway.
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> I should backsmack anyone who has ever thought that. Ever heard of the
> one drop rule? It has not only been a social standard for WHO is
> black, but it also upheld the constitution in keeping us from suing a
> white person over personal property. No black person ever refers to
> another black person as "biracial". You black. You might have another
> heritage in your lineage, but this country as well as any other sees
> you as black, PERIOD. Lame excuse people.
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> 4. I don't know what issues Barack stands for.
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> When the heck has that ever prevented black folk from voting for a
> black candidate, really? I guess now, but the main people saying that
> couldn't tell you anything about Hillary's or John Edwards platform
> either. Please stop fronting.
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> 5. All he did was give that one speech.
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> How many great people have defined their lives, the scope of human
> history, and changed the world in a speech? Moses, Jesus, Paul, Martin
> Luther, Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
> Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Malcolm
> X, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Jesse Jackson, and Jim Valvano all
> have changed the course of history of the world and the hearts of
> billions of men and women in societies since the beginning of time with a speech.
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> That is the purpose of a rally. A person speaks, and it prepares all
> to act in relation to the spirit of what is spoken. That is why we go
> to church, not to just hear our pastor blather, but to refresh God in
> our hearts and spurn us to take up God's will in our lives.
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> So save all that ying yang about that speech.
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> 6. If all of those white people are supporting him, he must be in
> their back pocket.
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> Save the conspiracy theory home skillet. He's liked because he comes
> at a time where a person that looks exactly like them lied to their
> face (two in a row, if you include Bill Clinton with Monica and of
> course Bush with Iraq), and flat out said what no politician would
> admit: We have two Americas, blue and red, black and white. It was not
> publicly said, and on top of that proposed that we ACTUALLY DO
> something about it, not find more ways to be divided and not come
> together despite our differences. Noble concept, and one to be
> championed. That's JFK, FDR, and Abe Lincoln material. So they were
> feeling it, just like I was and you should too. His legislative work
> has been indicative of this as well, including his Fuel Standard work with President Bush. Check the resume, it shines.
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> THE REAL REASON BLACK PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO VOTE FOR OBAMA IS THAT THEY
> ARE AFRAID THAT HE'LL WIN, AND:
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> 1.WE'LL HAVE NO MORE EXCUSES LEFT.
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> We won't be able to say, "America is racist", "I cannot get a break
> because I'm black", and all other random excuses many blacks make for
> not achieving anything in their lives.
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> 2. IF SOCIETY IS LEFT UNCHANGED AFTER HIS PRESIDENCY WE'LL LOSE HOPE.
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> If a black man becomes President, I honestly believe many black people
> feel that all of the world's problems should come to an end. No more
> crack selling, no more black on black crime, no more baby mama drama
> and dead beat daddies, no more people on welfare and on the chow line,
> no more wineoes, no more police brutality, no more DWB, no more
> predatory loans, no more ghettos, no more racism period, no more
> Middle East unrest, just everybody singing cumbaya. To some degree, I
> think alot of white people, especially liberal, feel that way too, that's why they are all up on him like that.
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> THAT'S RIDICULOUS. If it happened, he'd be one of the greatest people
> that ever lived, but that's way too much pressure to put on one man.
> DANG! I feel that people are really not ready for the world to get
> better anyway. It's like that father you never knew but won't make a
> relationship with because you don't want to be let down. It's unfair
> and let that go. Barak will make a great President, but he won't solve
> all of the world's problems, nor can he solve all of black peoples' problems either.
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> 3. SO CALLED "EDUCATED" BLACK PEOPLE WON'T BE SO SPECIAL ANYMORE
> BECAUSE THE PLAYING FIELD WILL BE LEVELED.
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> Absolutely hate more than anything else. The above 2 reasons were
> largely a poor disadvantaged black person's inner fear about Barack.
> Many of number 2 and all of this one is specifically tailored to you
> bourgeois folks that actually like being the only black person (or one
> of a very few) in your medical school, your law school, your master's
> program, your Ph.D. program, your high fallutin' Fortune 500 Company,
> your faculty at your prestigious institution.
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> You feel deep inside being a talented 10th will become a talented
> population. As much as you detest and look down at your disadvantaged
> brothers and sisters, and claim they need to "get a job", "get an
> education", "pull themselves up from their own bootstraps", and "stop
> being so ignorant", you like them where they are. You are the one that
> has that shady feeling in your belly when a new black person is hired
> because you don't want them to screw it up for you. Yeah you...I'm talkin' about you.
> You know who you are. You think deep inside, Keishas, Darnells,
> Shequans are going to get theirs now that Barak is in office, and you
> won't be so special anymore.
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> See you like racism. You probably are like Clarence Thomas, the man
> that benefitted from Affirmative Action but now you got yours, nobody
> else can get in too, so you vote against Affirmative Action. Yeah,
> claim you got your opportunity on merit. No, you got it on the backs
> of our ancestors that had to fight for you to get that job. Now you
> don't want a world where everyone has an equal opportunity. Well
> actually neither do poor blacks either, see 1.
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> 3. IF HE MESSES IT UP, WE'RE ALL SCREWED.
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> Back in the day blacks with degrees could do nothing but shine shoes
> outside the company. Now we're in them, making decisions, even CEOs
> like my man Stanley O'Neal, the first black American to take the helm
> of a major Wall Street firm. That brother completely mismanaged the
> company, like many others who mismanaged banks and cause losing equity
> because of security back subprime loans. Now, those that are in the
> know are afraid that a black man cannot ever get that opportunity to be THE MAN at a major institution again.
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> Not only that, if Barack messes it up, there will be a backlash on all
> of black America. "You guys had your chance to run the free world, and
> you blew it".
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> Sorry Charlie, Barak is one man. You can't use the logic for yourself
> as far as getting ahead, but lose it for this man. George Bush
> completely botched America's standing in the world, but I don't see
> anyone afraid to elect another white man. So come off of it.
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> 4. BLACK WOMEN FEEL SORRY FOR HILLARY BEING CHEATED ON BY THE REAL
> FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT.
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> This is so dumb, I cannot address with words, but it's the truth for
> alot of black people, who felt Bill was the first Black President, and
> sistas especially would feel like they were vindicating a woman that
> was done wrong by anotha brotha.
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> 5. BLACKS LIKE TO BE DIFFERENT FROM WHITES AND BARAK WILL BREAK DOWN
> BARRIERS WE LIKE HAVING UP.
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> Keep it real people. You hate it when anything we do gets imitated. It
> is instantly uncool. Most blacks love that we have our own thing, our
> own culture. Having Barack win means for a lot of people America will
> have more of a shared consciousness. We'll actually have to come
> together and squash some beef to make this country cooperative. I
> don't completely believe this concept, but I'm down for it. Once
> again, Black people really do like racism.
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> For all of you doubters out there this is what you really need to ask
> yourselves:
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> Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is
> that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be
> brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to
> be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
> And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
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> That's all the brotha is trying to do. So vote for him, drop the
> excuses, and support the first viable Black Candidate. Our ancestors
> demand that we do so.
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