Well worth revisiting for a feel how a well adjusted person feels about this fraud currently play acting as president while destroying our country andeverything that makes it special and unique.

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No He Can't

by Anne Wortham by Anne Wortham

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Fellow Americans,

Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul’s name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America.

I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival – all that I know about the history of the United States of America, all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America. Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn’t look like them. I would have to be wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration – political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

I would have to believe that "fairness" is equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.

Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead – and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.

So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a black man to the office of the president of the United States, the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over – and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black person. So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to – Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine – what little there is left – for the chance to feel good. There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.

November 6, 2008

Anne Wortham [send her mail] is an individualist liberal who happens to be black and American.

Link to letter:  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/wortham1.html

Correctly attributed and Anne Wortham DID write this and it was published.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/awortham.asp#iEpSx16wShYuwKp...

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Comment by Lizzie on July 24, 2012 at 1:21pm

She identifies herself first as black. She could have simply identified herself as an American.. same result.

 

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on July 24, 2012 at 6:48am

I have heard a couple of people say, at this point, he is not the first "black" president even though he touts himself as black.  He is the first "mixed race" president, and we have not had the first black president yet. 

I understand what she is saying, LIzzie, and you don't have to be race conscious to say what she said.  I think mentioning she is black gives her voice, in this matter, more weight and having grown up in the segregated south really would have nothing to do with being conscious of race in her daily life.  It is just a fact of her life and she is saying "in spite of" but certainly it could be taken by some to discredit what she says about race conscience.  What goes on around us has some bearing on how you feel about things certainly, but what you learn at home from your parents probably has more bearing on how you end up.  I know, in my case, it did and does, and I like to think if parents don't discriminate against anyone or  don't teach or set by example a tendency towards it, that their children learn to be the same way.  We were taught that you didn't have to go to church one hour a week to be a good person and a good Christian, and that what you did for the other 167 hours every week was far more important to being a good person and Christian than that one hour a week set aside for church (they also treated everyone alike and we learned to do the same).

Comment by Lizzie on July 23, 2012 at 6:58pm

This is an interesting commentary by Ms. Wortham.  The only problem is she says "Most importantly, I am not race conscious."  right after she tells us she is black, she grew up in the 'segregated south'.  Why not say "I am an American".  She IS race conscious.

94% of Americans who have 'black' skintone voted for him because he looks like them.. but what about his 50% whiteness.

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