The quote that I used to begin this blog was taken from the late Huey P. Newton, a founder of the Black Panther Party of the 1960-70's. This quotation is a powerful one because it speaks to the issues that divide our Nation. Make no mistake we are living in a dangerous time on all levels. The economy is in shambles brought about by incursions of a bellicose nature looking for a madman in the wrong place. Our labor force is unemployed due to decisions of executives that took profit over product at the expense of refitting, retooling,or research. This insane attitude has caused a rift that sees the average CEO making 30,oo0 times the wage of a worker.
The politics have degenerated into us against them. Lies versus truth, hardened positions rather than discourse, all leading to outbreaks of violence in the citizenry. All we need to remember is the Tea Bag movement and their scurrilous depiction of President Obama as Hitler or the Joker to know we are in trouble. Add to the fact that a militia group in Michigan was planning a murder of a police officer and the plant bombs as the funeral processed all to inspire a revolution to over throw the government. What is the issue here? Is it all about race? Is the country so fragile that diversity is pulling the stitches out of the seams, or frankly is it that change in this country is still met with resistance boarding on psychosis.
History shows us that opposition to their niche ( the ability to vote, hold office as exclusionary and the ability to set the agenda as per the Constitution) causes out breaks of fear. Reconstruction gave rise to the Clan, to "save white womanhood"( I am not kidding). Civil Rights lead to Bull Connor, bombing houses, murder of young persons had at the base the same almost exact agenda: a loss of control of the agenda. When this Nation has no challenge a calmness rests on majority voters who let out a sigh of relief and attend their lives.
The loss of the agenda or the phenomena as Newton argues is controlling factor of this period in history. We have elected a man of color to lead. The issues facing Obama's Administration are greater than before. All of the major concerns are exacerbated to the point that to do nothing or maintain the status quo would mire all of us in inertia. However, I believe that this would be more acceptable to a certain segment of the population. After all he was not elected to change things just maintain, except the Nobel Prize was awarded and the flood gates opened.
This recognition was divinely planned. I think that it gave Obama the moral courage to act and as Admiral Farragut said "damn the torpedo's full speed ahead as he took Mobile Bay). Kennedy wrote a book called Profiles in Courage. The persons examined had to make decisions under the most dire of circumstances. They set the phenomena, the standard all of us must strive to meet. This loss of the agenda and the inability to regain it points to the base part of the racist (call them what you will but the bottom line is race and the vilest ugliness they muster) in charge of this attack on legislation to help those in the most need.
So I cheer for the setting of the phenomena take power over those who have no vision and who would rob all of us of hope.....Later
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