According to an ‘old soul’, Barack Obama feels like a wolf in sheep clothing – the appearance of a savior for the black people and minorities. He is a closet Muslim (per Stephen Colbert). We know that is the truth, period. And by default once a Muslim, always a Muslim, right? The denial of his association with Muslims is an insult to his ancestors – flesh and blood, his own family and relatives and friends. Converting to Christianity is never going to be the same in my opinion. I know because a Buddhist is going to marry into a Catholic family.
There is no denying where he came from – a broken family — noone from Obama’s side to speak on his behalf during the Democratic National Convention. It’s sad and I’ve read in other conspiracy sites that he ‘lied’ to get into the ‘system’ from his alleged fraudulent birth certificate to his position as council member in Illinois. Just ask people, the eyewitnesses, their testimonies. Everyone knows that in order to get on top, one has to climb over others from the bottom. And there are bound to be people hurt as a result.
I feel that if this country needs this alleged change Barack Obama should have not chosen Joe Biden as his running mate. Biden has been around for a long time, which to me represents the status quo. Without capping on the age discrimination, I know that change doesn’t require someone with experience. Most of the candidates running for the presidential office don’t have experience. We know that experience cannot be learned strictly by the book (albeit academia) and comes from ‘on the job’ training – hands on, if y’all will try to understand. I know because it took me more than a year to learn anything well enough to feel comfortable with my assignments.
It’s the accomplishments, the quality and not necessarily the number of goals achieved that would define someone successful enough to be a candidate into a high office of this great nation. I find that someone progressive would not look to the past to reasonably predict the future events. We know that the hurt from racism won’t be forgotten. But for heavens sake, if the perpetrators didn’t personally come after the descendants, there should be no more of these hurt feelings of revenge on and behalf of the ancestors, whose very African kings sold their own people to westerners, right?
It’s done and over with and it’s time to move forward. I am expecting people to keep an eye on (or at least teach) their children and that if there is going to be change, hatred must end. Forgiveness is possible but over a very, slow timeline. I know because it’s hard to let go of past sentiments brought about changes in the young upstarts whose own free will to be heard is change in the making.
And I have to let go too and overcome that part of me that is dark and seething with the fear of losing again. I’m afraid that in order to get rid of the ever present ‘evil’ is not only to fight back with love and light (yuck!) but to work out the creases with an iron fist and the will as strong as titanium or something stronger. So yeah, let’s cut out that old lard and find something worthwhile instead of hiding the truth about unity among differences.
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