Instead of Hillary Clinton
or John McCain showing self-proclaimed leadership by denouncing
the duplicity of using Obama's candidacy as a barometer for racism
in America, the pair remained silent, savoring political advantage.
Politics like race is a time
tested weapon of mass deception exploited to smoke-screen public
attention important issues.
Near the dawn of the 20th-Century,
power-brokers and their puppet politicians' foisted Jim Crow
segregation to splinter inter-racial populism rising in the South
at that time.
Forty years ago, the Kerner
Commission declared the time was now to make good on the "promises
of American democracy to all citizenswhite and black, Spanish-surname,
American Indian and every minority group."
The Kerner Commission, like
Obama in his speech, spoke about "unfinished business"
of this Nation.
The issue today is as it was
at the time of the 1968 Kerner Report and that 1800 congressional
debate: making the promises of democracy real for all Americans.
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