Sipping the Kool Aid
As every non-Amish citizen of this land is probably aware, America elected Barack Hussein Obama to be its 44th Commander in Chief. Once the euphoria of Tuesday night fades to its proper place, there are still disheartening realities and never yielding facts about the world that must be dealt with.
Among them is the rather depressing fact that this development is even ground breaking and barrier decimating. After all, in a truly progressive society should not the election of a black man be viewed simply as the election of an American? The question the nation should be asking itself is why there must even be barriers?
While it is perfectly appropriate to let a generation of heroic civil rights leaders and liberals revel in the grandeur of what they have accomplished, one should even for a second believe the responsibility of this nation to truly and definitively exorcise its racial demons has been fulfilled.
Though unseen and largely silent at the moment, there are still bigots out there cursing whatever god they pray to for letting this happen. To them Barack Obama is a black man, nothing more and nothing less, therefore, he cannot be president. It is against this odious portion of the populace the wars of the last 200 years have been waged.
Now, with an electoral defeat, resounding and clear, dealt to the bigots, the armies of change must march against themselves. Well meaning and politically correct liberals are the new bigots. For those of you still reading, it is imperative that you too eliminate race from your life, recognizing the danger of complacency and contentment.
Think of Barack Obama not as the first black president but simply as the President of the United States, refusing to judge him on the minority scale but rather pitting him against every white man to have held the title. Mr. Obama deserves nothing less than this standard, derived from the simple plea of a southern preacher to judge a man not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character.
A chance like this, fleeting yet misleading, rarely comes along. Barack Obama is not an African American, he’s an American, as we all are and as we all should be. Enough with the race based admissions, enough with the race based dialogue and interactions, enough with race. The chains have been cut, now we must walk, cautiously yet decisively, through the cell door, open almost imperceptibly for less than an instant as the light floods in from afar.
Vman (Someone who’s getting his polemicist on)
