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You know, I've bee an active voter ever since 1968...I'll be 57 in a couple of weeks...in all these years, I've/we've been offered one white answer after the next, still life in the Black community hasn't changed for us. We're offered a pacifier to calm us down, and then we're Willie Lynched all over again. I've voted through 8 presidential elections in my lifetime, and I have yet to see the changes that were promised...always the nipple with no milk. For the past few days I've been exchanging messages concerning Barrack Obama. Let me make myself perfectly clear...I'm not voting for Barrack because he's black...I'm voting for him because i believe in my heart that he is a man that can get the job done for all of us. Yes, I'm African American, but regardless of what you may think...just like every other ethnic group in this country, we are all Americans. If you think I'm lying, just reflect back to 9/11, and look at the diversity in the death toll. None of those people died because they were black, or white...or hispanic, or asian...they died because they were Americans. I love my people, and I love the rich history of my people, and I do whatever I can to make sure that any person tht I come in contact with gets some kind of information about who we were in time.

But this is a new day, and we are never going to restore those days and times, but what we can do is become a viable part of this society that we live in. One things for certain, and two things are for sure...if we can get it together and stand as one man, we really can change the world, but we have to come together.

Certainly, Barrack's not the mosty experienced of the candidates...and cetainly he is junior to just to all of the candidates...but that does not mean hat he cannot effect change in America.

We look for all the reasons..."he's not black enough...not experienced enough...he used to do drugs...he's really an undercover terrorist, and not really a true Christian...the church that he worships in ain't right"...yeah, we look for all the dirt that the media and some politicians throw at us, because they are afraid, and the only way that they can deal with their fear is to plant seeds of discord within the ranks of the black vote.

Truth of the matter is, Barrack doesn't have the experience that many of the others has., that doesn't mean that he doesn't know hat he's doing..and yes, he did do some drugs back in the day...so did I, and I'm quite sure that many of you have as well, and so the question can bounce back to you, do you still get high? I heard a black minister try to play on his name...Barrack Hussein Obama...and tried to get others to believe that the man is an undercover terrorist because he has an Islamic name, yet look at some of the nams that we go by...some/many of which can't be found in anyone's name book for babies...and the brother is a member of one of the most radical chhurches that I have read about to date, and his pastor is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright...check him out online hen you get a chance...what I am trying to say here is this...the Bible tells us that we should pull the plank out of our own eye before we start pointing our fingers around the room, you know. We are all used to be somethings, one thing or another...a lot of us think that we have arrived, and have appointed ourselves as judges, that's right, many of us have become self-appointed judges, when we really have been called o be supeonaed witnesses. Many of us find things to believe so that we don't have to deal with truth.

Let me give you a truth, unless you are financially secure and can leave, you're probably not going anywhere but where you are. That being the case, then you might as well do whatever you have to do to make your life where you are as comfortable as possible. That means that we are all going to have to accept the fact htat we are African Americans...Africans that live in America, and if you don't like the things that you see, then you need to go to work and try to change those things, by all means necessary. The Jews in Jesus' day, was looking for some great warrior to come, sword iand shield at the ready, to lead them into battle agains the greatest fighting force in the known world. Jesus knew that the Jews would never ever beal to be the Romans at their own game, and so he said this..."give Caesar what is his...and give God what belongs to God...check this out...if you give Caesar what is his, he will have his hands on material things...but if you give to God what belongs to God...Caesar won't have anything because he needs us in order to be able to put his hands on the material things. If we give ourselves to the Lord...Caesar will go broke. I said that to say this...we are never going to be a force formidable enough to beat our enemy at his own gane...so what God has done is blessed us with a man...a man of God...that has gone into battle to fight for us. He has equipped him with the right tools and weapons that he needs to fight. Now, he cannot fight this battle alone...he needs us...he needs his people to trust him, and to satnd with him, because what he is doing is slowly working Black America into the mix of this society. We may not see it all right now, but if we take a united stand with this brother, I believe that we will see the kinds of changes that we have been looking for in this country.

Is Barrack black enough...most certainly...but the real question is, is this brother socially acceptable enough,...and again, yes he is. If whe were to come on as too black, he would never be accepted by states like Iowa, where he just won overwhelmingly. Iowa is about 90 to 95 percent white, and this brother went into their camp and beat the Clintons, Edwards and the rest of the democratic field. You see, Barrack not only has to be accepted by us, but htere is an entire nation that he chooses to represent, and for that, he must position himself to be accepted by every American voter.

So what you see is what you get...if he were Rev. Sharpton or Rev. Jackson, hw would never even be considered as viable opposition, but he's not like them, and therefore he must be taken seriously by every Ameican voter.

Now one can call this rhetoric if they choose, but real is real...if you want to take your chances with you/our enemy fixing our plate for us, telling us what we can or cannot eat, then vote the way you feel...as for me an my house...we're going to stand with our own this time.