Barack Hussein Obama and Southern Culture
What would happen to Southern culture under the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama? For the answer, let’s look at what he has said in his own words:
This is from a column at World Net Daily by Phyllis Schlafly, titled Obama’s Audacity of Hate:
Obama describes how he deliberately separated himself from his multiracial heritage in order to give himself a 100 percent black persona, different and alienated from the white world around him. Obama writes that the book is “a record of a personal, interior journey” to establish himself as “a black American.”
With his new all-black identity, Obama stews about injustices that he never personally experienced and feeds his warped worldview by withdrawing into a “smaller and smaller coil of rage.” He lives with a “nightmare vision” of black powerlessness.
Obama’s worldview sees U.S. history as a consistent tale of oppressors and oppressed. He objects to the public schools because black kids are learning “someone else’s history. Someone else’s culture.”
Obama grew up in Hawaii, the exemplar of a melting pot of races, yet he sees it as a place of “aborted treaties and crippling diseases brought by the missionaries.” Although his mixed race was not a handicap in Hawaii, he whined that “we were always playing on the white man’s court … by the white man’s rules.”
One day his grandmother, while waiting for a bus to take her to work, was accosted by a panhandler. She gave him a dollar, but he aggressively demanded more – and she was scared because he looked like he might hit her.
When Obama learned that the panhandler was black, he said the news hit him “like a fist in my stomach.” Obama objected to the fact that his grandmother was “scared of a black man,” and his resentment at her (not at the panhandler) was such a big deal that he referred to this incident repeatedly.
Obama immersed himself in the writings of radical blacks: Richard Wright, W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Langston Hughes. Obama’s favorite became Malcolm X.
Obama scarcely knew his father, yet he wrote: “It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.”
Obama described his happiness in going to Kenya: “For the first time in my life, I felt the comfort, the firmness of identity that a name might provide.” He felt he “belonged” and had come home. Apparently, the only other place he felt at home was in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church in Chicago.
Obama rejects racial integration because it is “a one-way street” with blacks being “assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around.” Does he think America would be a better country if whites were assimilated into African culture?
Draw your own conclusions, but I have no doubt that anything related to The Old South, the Confederate States of America, or even today’s South would be considered the bête noire of the new rulers. Does that mean that I support - or will even vote for - the Republican candidate? No. I will be voting for Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party candidate. Yes, I know - he has zero chance of winning. Yes, I’ve heard all the arguments about that being the same as voting for Obama (an absurd statement if I’ve ever heard one, and one that I completely reject). Can you imagine Robert E. Lee supporting the Lesser of Two Evils? Can you imagine Robert E. Lee admonishing someone for voting on principle rather than politics? Can you imagine Robert E. Lee advising someone to choose expediency over principle? No, of course not. Robert E. Lee would make the honorable choice. He would never have said that the likelihood of success is a criterion of right.
If you truly believe that McCain best represents who you want for a leader, then that is who you should vote for. The same goes for Obama (though I can’t imagine anyone who would be reading this would want Obama as their leader). If Chuck Baldwin best represents what you want in a leader, then that is who you should vote for.
We need Leaders - not Followers. Start by making your own choice as to who you vote for rather than following the herd. Do what is right. Do what is honorable.
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
John Quincy Adams