Michael1942's Blog

As I read the variety of publications and other media issues, I have come to the realization that we as Americans  (and not all of us) are still closeted racists or bigots of some sort. There are so many Americans who harbor an actual hate of the President due to his natural tan, its scary. These are the same single issue folks who have supported the re-election of Congress as long as they have supported their single issue. Now that there is a person in the Oval office who is telling you what is actually going on in Government we would rather believe the truth variations put out by many other factions including some of the Presidents own party. The Congress is not interested in the truth and especially from a not so “white” guy. It is my opinion that if we are ever to become a true “world Power” we need to get off of the Race horse and treat America’s top dog as the head of Government instead of a whipping boy for every failure of the previous heads and the Congress what made them. America the Beautiful has grown uglier as we continue the  modern “civil war” with all of its restrictive policies and ancillary nonsense. If by some chance we can ever evolve from the pro slavery mentality we could actually make progress. So the question is” What are we thinking?”

I recently read an article on Black Mom’s and the general perception of them in the media, in the world and  in stereotypical conversations. Rather than excerpt this I have included a short part and the link to the blog:

I am a Black mom. And my mom — she’s a Black mom, too. And so was my Nana. And never not once did my mother address me with a three, five or twelve-letter slur (I’ll let you figure out what those are on your own). Sure, I got lectured about running in and out of the house and jumping on the furniture. And if I asked her to go to McDonald’s, she would whip right back and ask me “You got McDonald’s money?” That much rings true. But she didn’t spend the preponderance of her time devising new ways of saying she was going to kick my tail.

Read Janelle Harris’ entire blog entry at Essence.com.