He Had a Dream

When the first Black Plantation Master President speaks to his peeps, he does it in grand style. There were limousines, Afrorati and self congratulatory bullshit knee deep on The National Mall yesterday. It would seem that while the Mas' of the greatest plantation in America no longer lives in the big White house, he is still in high cotton. Bill Clinton was not alone yesterday affirming that the blacks in this nation are still oppressed.

Oprah Winfrey was on hand to tell of her deep and abiding disappointment in the America that has kept her from being a gajillionaire, instead of merely a wazillionaire. Jesse Jackson was at the ready to remind us that though you may not have a church to pastor, you can still spit in white folks food and call yourself a Reverend because the American South is so unforgiving. And the golden boy, (in so many more ways than one) of the Left, United States Senator Barack Obama, assured us that his oppressive childhood in the private schools of Hawaii makes him just the man to come in from the fields to speak to inner city blacks about their hoes. And who can forget Maya Angelou, the poetess of misery, who without the drum of oppression to beat, would have no song to sell guilty whites.

The spirit of Martin Luther king was not snugged up to those house slaves yesterday at the Grand Opening of his corporate franchise headquarters at the Tidal Basin. He was a couple streets over, a wisp of gray on the steps of the Supreme Court where a little boy from Pin Point, Georgia is living his Dream. Not trading on it.

Comments

[mad_cow]

Well said, Jane. Of course the little boy from Pin Point, Georgia grew up to be a successful Conservative. Too many more like him and the professional whiners and "shake down artists" would be out of a job.

And although I don't presume to speak for King, as our fist Black President did, I do agree with this statement:

"If he were here, he would remind us that the time to do right remains," Clinton said.

I would disagree Cinton, however, with who MLK would be addessing if he indeed made that statement.

[john]

Another great post, but I'm here to go all eeyore on you again. I caught the end of a conference earlier this year (State of the Black Family?). All the usual suspects were there - many of the above, plus Michael Eric Dyson, Cornell West, Tavis Smiley, et.al.

The question of people like Bill Cosby and Justice Thomas, and challenges to the conventional wisdom they represent was brought up almost at the end. Someone(?) responded, approximately: "Being black is not about skin color but about a particular shared set of socio-historical perspectives."

Deep nods all around. So, Cosby and Thomas, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell et.al., aren't really black, and they don't even have to be criticized, they can just be summarily ignored.