I know almost nothing of his politics, but what little we in the outside world have come to know of Nelson Mandela is that he was a man who tried to unite his country as South Africa changed over from a history of white leaders to majority black rule. Mandela was the first black man to lead his country – much like Barac Obama is the first black president of the United States – but with much different outcomes. Mandela went out of his way to prove that he was not vindictive for the years he spent imprisoned and tried to bring his nation together. He truly tried to unite his people after the ugly history of apartheid. Mandela was a man of honor working hard to demonstrate to the world that all his people were South Africans and he was the leader of ALL South Africans.
If only we had that kind of leader in the United States as we have OUR first black president. One who strives to unite all Americans rather than continually forcing wedges down our throats, one who loves the country and the people and saw a bright future for us, a president who included us in the process rather than hiding it from us, one who was open and honest about his intentions – one who believed in America and our dream as one people.
When Mandela became president his country was JUST emerging from apartheid. There was every reason in the world for Mandela and the South Africans blacks to have hatreds in their hearts. Yet, Mandela went to extensive lengths to include all the people in the formation of the new country. History was unchangeable, it was the future over which he had control and he did all in his power to mend his people.
When Obama became president slavery had been abolished for 145 years. There is no one left alive who was a slave nor slave owner. Slavery – like apartheid – was an institution almost everyone on the planet agreed was obsolete and needed to be part of museums not part of society – and was done away with. Not that anyone at the White House has noticed. The White House thinks it still goes on and sees everyone as pushing it. The reality is it’s nothing more than a political hot-button Obama and others in the Race Industry keep picking at like an unhealed scab to keep long dead hatreds alive. Never once did it occur to any of them that it was their own attitudes and hatreds that were causing negative reactions toward them, just like any other jerk you meet on the street who has a chip on his shoulder. It had nothing to do with the color of their skin. It was all about them hating the world. The haters don’t WANT to let it go.
We have another mindset along those lines that I, personally, would like to see put in the same museum with other obsolete mindsets – racism. Unfortunately, we are wallowing in hatreds Washington is squeezing for every vote they can wring out of it. It is a shield that is being used for many in Washington to hide behind while being racists at the same time. The very fact that their minds go to race with every issue that comes up indicates they are racists. There is no such thing as only one race being racists. It is a small-minded attitude shared by morons the world over. We see that now pouring out of the White House from every level right now. Racists are flooding in from all corners of the country as if the White House is a magnet attracting haters. Those people are entrenching themselves in every bureaucracy they can get into. It will take generations to weed out the haters.
Instead of following the South African model and uniting as a people we have a deep-rooted racist who hates what the United States is and what it has stood for in the world. He sees us as a nation of racists who have not left the Slavery Era where all white Americans are KKK members or some other form of racists determined to subjugate blacks and other minorities. He hates the principles of this country – mocking them when speaking to those he considers his allies – hates our freedom and will do all he can to tear down our national security and make us vulnerable on all fronts. To show his hatred for us, Obama has put racists in positions of power and pushed racist/socialist/totalitarian agendas into every corner of our society. He has failed to do his job to protect Americans and our rights – trying to make us feel as if it is America that has been in the wrong all these years and the tyrants of the world were the true heroes. It takes some SERIOUSLY warped, hate-filled thinking to get to that point, but that is where our president has taken us. He has led us down a path toward dishonor among the nations of the world – and, more importantly, dishonor to ourselves.
Americans deserve better.
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