I’m hopeful.

It is my belief that no-one can be President without having the approval of the people who really run this country and the world. If that is the case why is Obama looking like a possible nominee of the Democratic Party?

My Answer: I believe that Obama is a face that this country and its ruling elite are being forced to offer to the world. For the past 7 years African Americans have been the Secretary of State which is the Office of America’s premier Diplomat. So we already are representing America to the rest of the nations of the world.

But now a provocative addition to this theory: what if we are looking at the return of the beings called the annunaka, who according to the bible and other books must be the same color as the original Africans created by them. Their headquarters were in the middle East exactly where we have set up shop in Iraq. All of the available information says that they will return sometimes between now and 2012, and even NASA has said that they have found a planetary body lurking just outside of our solar system, and its obviously coming this way.

Lets face it, and I am speaking as a African American, the best friends white America have are the descendants of their former slaves. We have a 400 year old relationship that should mean more than it does. white America must realize that we are the only friends they have the world in spite of our history. It’s time we took this relationship seriously, especially between now and 2012.

Obama may be the final link that makes this relationship clear because he is bi-racial and both races can see some of themselves in him. But this relationship must go beyond just Obama and I have told every African American that will listen, that we are responsible for this relationship.

It’s obvious that European Americans are not sure how to proceed beyond where they are so we must be their guide. The message is simple: We are the team that originally built this country and our relationship with each other will continue to define this country’s present and future.

I ask you: What is the information that every African American should give their European American friends so that we can create the relationship we really need to make America and even greater nation?

I also encourage every African American to read Zacharia Sitchin books ‘ The Earth Chronicles” and get a new view of who we were and who we are.

Finally: it’s clear that the original human tree created by anthropologist are wrong and racist because the Pygmy groups are intentionally left out. These charts were created during the 30′s and 40′s when whites did not want to indicate that they were descended from African people and have been left unchanged.

Their is no physical difference between Homo Erectus and the various pygmy groups. The ancient Egyptians were clear that they came from the Mountain of the moon and point directly to the pygmies who live at the base of the mountain. They have been here since the Annunaka came down and created man out of them, and this needs to be acknowledged.

Obama represents a new planetary reality and all of this will become more obvios in the years to come.

In the meantime change from your current calendar to the 13 moon calendar left by the African Olmecs in South America. it was the calendar men were intended to use and not the one created by the empire builders that needed a calendar designed to track how productive we are every day.

The post was actually addressed to a black commentator who says that Barack Obama winning in Iowa was proof that racism is dead. All I was saying was that the fact that white people support black superstars is no indication that white people would treat common black people with the same respect and value. The message was to the black commentator to wake up and realize that it’s not as simple as what he or she thinks it is. I strongly suggest you go back and read the post and then read it again.

People run the gamut, black and white. A lot of black people, like the author of the original comment, want to believe that racism is dead because white people like a handful of blacks. I get the impression that these black people are so desperate to gain white favor that they will look for the slimmest glimmer of reconciliation so that we can put the past behind us. But it is no where near that simple. There are other black people who are able to see the reality that the majority of the black population is still being subjected to discrimination. There are black people who want to help white people keep black people right where they are. Black people run the gamut.

There are white people who are very proud of their history as subjugators of black people. These Nazis, Aryans, militias, and Confederate flag waving wannabes are blatantly proud of their history. Then again there are white people who are proud of their history but at least have the sense to keep their despicable pride under wraps while they subject black to the lower class of society. And I do know there are white people who are able to put any racism they may harbor aside to make sure they actually get the best person for whatever that needs to be done.

Regardless, a lot of people, on both sides of the racial fence need to wake up if the black community is every going to be considered an equally appreciated participant in the American community.

Peace

Instead, perhaps you should reread his post so you can understand exactly what he is expecting others to do. Apparently whites are the only one that need to “wake the fuck up” and give you what you need. Whatever that as-yet-undefined” thing is. You act like whites are proud of what happened in history. Me thinks you need to look in the mirror and give yourself a nice cold aqua velva slap in the face! Nobody was proud of that.

I listen, I think, I see, and I know… and have been awake for many years and I know that blaming someone else is never the answer.

Anyway onward….. agree, why the Obama scrutiny, Obama is a good man on his own without having to have people assign him to carrying the baggage of an entire history. That’s what I’m afraid is going to do him in. All this crap about “is he black enough”, or does he talk enough about some “urban agenda”. Anyway peace, gotta catch a plane over to my old hometown..Atlanta baby!! No more blogging for me. Peace

All this talk about race is a real waste of time until Black people can come to terms with our own issus of skin color. Within our own community we discriminate based on color…light-vs-dark. Our institutions of higher education are steeped in the traditon of color lineage. Wanting White folks to atone for racism when we ourselves are not willing to deal with it, is a waste of time. They aren’t going to get it until we first get it and it can’t just be the Black intellectually elites who can talk the talk on race. It has to be talked about in the “Hood” as well as our Churches and corporate boardrooms–but in a way that illuminates and heals as oppossed to hurting and blaming and shaming. Meanwhile our inattention and deep rooted predjudices may just continue to hold us from fully achieving success across America for all us.

You remind me of the white missionary, here to convince the Negroes that they should discard their tribal voodoo and get on board with your white God idea. You think you have a monopoly on thought and its your duty to spread the gospel. Sorry, but we already had a religion before you got here.

You are not listening and you are not thinking. Your chatter is meaningless, except to illuminate racism in real time. Your distortion of what I and others have said is a joke.

Nobody here is asking for whites to do anything but wake the fuck up and that’s asking too much in your case clearly. So sad.

I respect your opinion, clearly you have thought it through. However I question how many white people you actually know. And I mean KNOW to a depth where you can actually gauge the value of them as a person. I think you should take time and learn how the average white person looks at this issue. That would be extremely enlightening, It seems your assertions get great compliments from fawning “like minders” (as above). Onward…..

To expect a group of people (to date 78% of the population) to magically, all of a sudden be ashamed of the “system” that you alone have decided is the cause of all your ills is illogical. And then to get angry at them when they don’t snap into action is bordering on…well no word comes to mind. All black issues cannot depend on whites doing something, not doing someting, changing this, changing that. It almost seems that you’ve decided there is nothing you need to do…its everyone else. And when those people dont do what you’ve decided they should do, you get angry and say “it’s their fault, racism is in thier blood” Well, for lack of a better inflection: BS!

At the end of the day, I treat people complete indifferently…that is…with respect, kindness and honor. I don’t owe anything more than to treat everyone that way. I don’t live my live worrying about color, in the friends i have, the people I hire and work with or the people I go to chruch with….and that is the way to handle it…thats the way to teach others.

Its great to be able to have differing opinions and it not create a huge battle, but sentinel, it’s reaching to expect people to believe that all whites are racist when everyday life is full of examples to the contrary.

Peace, love the discussion

Thank you very, very much for putting it out there like that. Right on the mark in every way.

Peace

Personally, I don’t care if Halliburton is a corner package store; they profit from selling death, servicing death and largely through cronyism. Their former HNIC, Richard Cheney has profited royally from his service to them and in return, has steered contracts that if I’m not mistaken have been no-bid. All to make more money hand over fist – and “accidentally” kill off an innocent, brown populace.

In terms of racism being endemic to white folks in the States; the fact is that the US for several centuries was a practicing racist/white supremacist country – and they made no bones about it. Racism was the law of the land; it was spoonfed the populace through every organ, instrument and orifice available: word of mouth, newspapers, books, scholarly research. Later, film, radio and television spread the virus not only to every hill and molehill, here, but abroad.

Freedom for people of color here has been purchased with blood; while a few white folks helped, non-whites played the overwhelmingly pivotal role in getting the vote – which should have been there to begin with – etc, etc. The kicker is that the victories that were won were entirely phyrric. The condition of black folks and other people of color is testament to that. White people opposed freedom and equality in far greater numbers than showed up marching in Selma and Birmingham. And the majority sat on their hands.

And what a lot of folks don’t like to admit is black people burning shit up in riots throughout the ’60′s was a huge motivator, probably more important than all the marches put together, in the government’s granting “concessions” to us. We didn’t get our rights because Congress saw the light. They saw a race war in the offing.

While we got the Voting Rights Act, et al, what we didn’t get was therapy for the white masses to counteract the three hundreds years of white superiority indoctrination that warped their minds and that continues to this day. The reason some of us believe that whites en masses carry this racist gene so to speak, is that they are still being pumped full of it through their schools, churches, TV’s and movie screens. They may think they’ve avoided the disease, but they can’t if they live, breath and work on planet earth.

Your hubris, as if you know what’s really going on, is straight from the playbook. Yes, you tell us ignorant kneegrows and use your superior intellect and vision to do it.

Whites are racist because you are bred that way; if you aren’t actively confronting it in your white selves, attempting to understand it from the perspective of people of color – which means being humble and teachable and assuming you don’t know much about racism – and actively trying to expose its many permutations within you and without you, then you’re a part of its maintenance.

You might consider this a losing proposition: your inability to conceive of the possibility that you and other whites have to actually deconstruct the racism in yourselves on a daily basis, rather than assume that you are Clorox clean. That unless you wear a sheet in your spare time, you ain’t got no dirty laundry. Some of the most racist people I know wear hemp, smoke pot and listen to Bob Marley. And when you confront them, they can be as dismissive, condescending and surly as Bull Connor. Look in the mirror.

You might want to come to the AfroSpear with an openmind instead of a lectern.

Fist I suggest you log on to a biz website and understand a little more about U.S. business. Halliburton (correct spelling) by the way, is a PUBLIC company, with shareholders of many different colors, political parties, and nationalities. If is not a private corp in the hands of some evil far right party. I appreciate your “we are the world” attidude, however turning a blind eye to a segment of the population with a certain nationality, gender, and religious affilation is quite simply irresponsible and naive. Again I appreciate your innocence in the matters of business and national security.

Now on other commentors…

A few other comments. Its my opinion, and I would imagine many other’s as well, that the issue of race and the attempts to overintellectualize it, bend and twist and jump through vocabulary twists to somehow assign all whites a “guilt by association” label is almost comical, if it wasn’t so pervasive and insulting to me. How dare you associate me with racists? I don’t associate you with crack whore’s and drug dealers by default. However in the same posts you do not wish whites assign that “guilt by association” to the crime in the black community because you’ve got some ideal of justification of it (feeding thier families). Certianly racism exists, we all know that, but saying that whites are all racist simply because they don’t do something you determined they should do. I think what I am reacting to is the theme of no personal responsibility regarding the issue from your post. It seems its all whites fault, and because they won’t stop working, taking care of thier families, living life, etc, they are racist. That approach is a losing cause, I will bet, my life savings, that we will be having this same over-intellectualized tap dance of 25, 50 years from now. Of course whites have come along way, you say that because most blacks are surprised to find out that most whites are not, and never have been racist and often question why they are labeled. I am not surprised at all that so many whites support Obama. Not sure why some blacks are. Good discussion, glad thier’s tolerance of comments and views! But the “guilt by association” tap dance is a losing proposition.

After visiting the “church’s” website and having read extensively about the comments made by it’s minister, my vote for Obama will now likely go to Hillary.

Why is it that the black community can direct so much hatred toward European-Americans and think that it doesn’t in fact lead to a reciprocal hatred?

I urge anyone who is even considering voting for Obama to vist the website of the church he attends.
Also, remember, by no means do white people corner the market on racism.

The way I see it is not that ALL white people are racist deep down and I don’t think that BrotherP sees it that way either (just my guess). Yet the problem is this: the majority of whites are probably NOT racist but they are getting perks and kickbacks from the actions of the minority of their group. This puts them in cahoots with the racists. Since if by the action of the racists white supremacy/privilege continues to flourish and they don’t stand up against it then they are with it.

A lot of white people believe that blacks seemingly acceptance of drug dealers in our inner city neighborhoods somehow we should all be ashamed of their actions and do something about it. Yet, those drug dealers are spending money in the community maybe giving money to other families and so they look the other way. So are they not now in cahoots with the drug dealers, of course.

So it is the same in both cases. Whites should be willing to forgo the privilege to end the power of racists and blacks should be willing to forgo drug related money in order to rid the community of criminal elements.

That being said, I truely appreciate what has been said in this piece. I also find it sad that this is still a subject that even deserves lip service. However, i know from experience that it is. Sometimes, those of us living in more inclusive societies find it difficult to appreciate that which others in opposing situtations may be facing.

Based on my limited (and I’m sure many will assume, one sided) experience this wrongly catagorizes the greater percentage of the white, american populace. Truely i feel that the absurd ideologies of a few get more attention to the realities of the masses. Perhaps by giving these extremist views…. do we not give them credibility? By marketing fear, the US government has funnelled billions of dollars into the pockets of private corporations (ie Haliburton), and caused it populace to look at every person of arab decent with suspicion. The reality is…. the guy down the street with the last name “Singh” or “Hussein” is no more a terrorist then is the guy named “Lee” who owns the variety store is a communist. Just cause someone is white please don’t start with the assumption that “deep down” they must be racist. Is that mindset in it’s self racist?

We ALL need to focus on seeing people as people. The US spend billions fighting a “cold war” only to learn it was all for not because the reality is…. the USSR could barely feed it’s self let alone sustain a war.

Just my thoughts, takem, leavem, do what you like.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm#Families_+_Children

We have to make it our duty to research and find out a candidates position on issues. The best way to truly assess that is researching how they vote on legislation they are presented with. We must take an active role in the process by becoming knowlegable through researching the candidates. So, here is a website informing you of his voting patterns and his stand on the issues, I hope everyone finds it to be informative.

It is, to crib George Lipsitz, THE POSSESSIVE INVESTMENT in whiteness/white privilege that effs it all up. Those who are pawns to propping up and perpetuating white supremacy, knowingly or unknowingly are of many colors.

Poor and working class people can be the most possessively invested in their whiteness because they’ve been so thoroughly convinced into believing that white privilege is the only currency available to them. Meanwhile, they continue to to prop up a system that in the face of a dollar will roll over them along with the rest of us.

It’s a scrambling for crumbs scenario for all of us without a pot or a window and when people like MLK and Malcolm started to hip poor white people to the game and really put together a coalition of Americans based on a common political goal- pop-pop-pop was all she wrote.

“Ain’t one of y’all that would trade places with me, and I’m rich. There’s probably a white peg-legged busboy walkin’ around sayin’, ‘Nu-uh! I’m gonna ride this white thing out and see where it takes me.’”

p.s. trackbacks are wack, and should at least be put in their own section.