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Everywhere I turn these days I keep seeing or hearing the words, "No More Excuses." From black self-help book titles to black pundits on CNN, these three words have become the mantra of post-racialism in the Age of President Obama. Whether intended or not, the mantra fuels the belief that because of individual black achievements, we have finally reached the promised land of a color-blind, equal-opportunity America.
'No More Excuses' in the Age of Obama
Seeded on Thu Nov 26, 2009 7:01 AM EST
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Daniels declared: The problem is “not race feeling. It is not color-feeling. It is inferiority-feeling.” White people “feel and act toward” black people “accordingly.”
Sounds like another way of saying how racist whites are misunderstood and how Blacks don't understand or recognize when they're being treated brutally unfairly. Daniels is just another individual who's making excuses to excuse the way racists behave(d).
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#1 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 7:03 AM ESTHello PowerIsKnoowledge,
You will often find this type of subliminal message buried in apparently positive intentions.
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A PHILOSOPHICAL LOOK AT RACISM
In today's America, you will still find a large group that copiously describes Mr Obama as a vile and dumb liar, an empty suit, a teleprompter reader automaton, a man that did not succeed on his own merits, but did so via the liberal loopholes weaved in the corrupt fabrics of our society etc.
It does not tax the brain to infer that all of those appalling accusations represent a preemptive gambit that aims at protecting their racial inferiority - or superiority - theories.
My life experience suggests that our prejudices, which pervert the course of our reasoning, are located upstream of our logical faculties. You will therefor often find on both sides of most arguments, reasonable looking men defending opposite views. However, today' s racial biases are so strong that I fail to find any good willed representatives on the side of those whose hatred and *inferiority complex totally blind them to that which unite us.
Since Mr Obama, this remarkable man, can only be seen as diabolical and inferior by that particular crowd, there is not one chance in Hell that reason will prevail any time soon in this twisted society. I wrote a hopeful aphorism that conceptually describes our perception problems and casts a light on their resolution, a solution that possibly lays way ahead in the future, if at all:
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Eyes to better blind us.
Ears to better shut our minds to the truth.
And a heart, that lodestone
that shall bring us together.
*inferiority complex?
Some find their redemption in the blind belief that there may be others inferior to themselves.
Karl
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#2 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:00 AM ESTIn today's America, you will still find a large group that copiously describes Mr Obama as a vile and dumb liar, an empty suit, a teleprompter reader automaton, a man that did not succeed on his own merits, but did so via the liberal loopholes weaved in the corrupt fabrics of our society etc.
Let me clarify one point: I am not a blind believer in everything Mr Obama says. That does not keep me from seeing him as a brilliant person that means well. I mourn the man he had set out to be, and see him as someone that is unfortunately in the process of letting go of his principles in order to smooth out his current difficulties.
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#3 - Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:11 AM ESTHi Karl, the verdict is still out with me. I believe his principles are still there but he inherited messes that he hadn't known would be so messy. I holding out that after he puts out at least thirty-percent of the fires he'll be able to get back on track.
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