Change and the after shock

Pity poor white people they are at it again. Not able to deal with decisions that change history, 14 Attorney's General have filed a suit to stop the implementation of the Health Care reform bill!! They have chosen an interesting platform: the first and the tenth amendment. The tenth amendment is the argument for discussion. The actual language is this: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people. Simply put unless it is a specific power granted by the original framers it is a states right issue. This is the same platform used as the reason for separation from the Union.In the 1960's for Civil Rights, integration, in short any issues which deals with the liberation of persons this noisy refrain shines forth again. Why is that? An easy answer might be the deep racial divide permeating within our country. As a person who has lived over a half a century and saw the social unrest, and was raised by parents, grand parents, aunts, uncles and a neighborhood that suffered under this oppression, I thought we had turned a corner when Obama was elected. It is obvious this nation has not. The most outrageous actions have been taken by those who have the R ( or in this case small r) in front of their name. This same band of malcontents and delusional persons who under the guise of patriotism cause more harm than anything else.



Another point of view is more telling and not spoken about within their circle. Frank Rich wrote in an editorial in the New York Times that had this line: "the issue is that a black man was elected president; a wise Latina is on the court, and the hard fact is that certain people see their influence dwindling." ( I apologise as it is not an exact quote but i must give credit to the author). When the head of the Tea Party Movement heard this he called people like Rich "stupid and brain dead". Their only issue is that their country was going to a socialist state. This is stupid enough so I will let it pass without comment.

My belief comes from a quote from the past by Huey P. Newton a founder and organizer of the Black Panther movement. In an interview he was asked what does power mean? His response is interesting especially for this time of increasing white angst. Newton proffered that power is the ability to define phenomena. Look at how then agenda or phenomena's has changed. Obama is doing what he promised: to bring change you can believe in! It is amazing to any observer that when an agenda is offered to help the banks to exploit the dreams of the "middle class", there is no outburst. Please consider the tax cut, when democrats lost, they did not take to the stress, destroying stuff, threatening people, posting addresses on the net, (they may have felt like it) no, they said we disagree but majority rules. Not so in this case. So what is the conclusion of the matter? There is a change but those who feel dwindled refuse to allow it to take place. There are smarter people and their skins is different. And we must move to different thoughts if we are to survive this depression, to compete in a global community, and still be the beacon to others that we are a melting pot but it is the difference that embraces our culture allowing all to truly be free.......Later