America

I want to talk about America for a moment. I think this is going to be my last post until after this historic election. I think with four days to go, for me it’s time to be quiet, pause and think about America and what an American is.

Americans are unique because we’re the only Nation without a true ethnic group, no DNA to say you’re an American. You’ll find with other Nations that their nationality is defined. German DNA in Germany, Italian DNA in Italy, Asian DNA in the Far East but there is no such thing as a DNA for Americans. Why, because America came to being with an idea. Our Nation is an idea in the works and our Nation has changed her idea through the years and will continue to change herself for years to come.

For far too many of those years the idea of America was defined by old white men. These men looked out for their own interest as well this idea and made rules to protect themselves from each other so the idea had a good chance to work.
These rules had to be amended from time to time because these white men found loop holes in them. They found out who ever they elected to lead them had control of the idea so they made amendments that who ever they elected had control over the idea rather then control of the idea. This idea and the men who were entrusted to oversee the idea didn’t care whom or at who’s expense got in the way of the idea and made life unbearable for anyone who didn’t agree or got in the way of its progress. Consequently the Natives who were already here were slaughtered damn near too extinction.

Progress was escalating rapidly and labor was at a premium and under manned so the white men in charge of the idea decided to import labor. They decided to exploit a people they did not understand from a land far away declaring them sub-human. They sold them like cattle to each other and had the power of life and death over them. They humiliated and degraded them.
One of these white men said enough, not this time nor on my watch and went to war against other white men who were in love with the present idea. America was divided on ideas and many white men said they’d rather die then change, rules are rules but this one white man said no, we’re going to change and also change the rules because it will be better for the idea, or we’ll fight and die, so fight and die they did. Over time the white man for change won the war. Men and women affected by this change gathered at churches New Years Eve that year of 1862 because at midnight 1863 change from the war became law and a new idea for this Nation changed the course of her history.

For many years now Americans that still do not want the change made by that white man have been fighting a quiet war with rules they could make without the leader over of the idea in control. Loop holes in the law kept separation and continue dominance. This dominance was handed down through the years because of ignorance and fear but time and education has slowed this ideology down but one thing has not changed and that is who ever leads over the idea owns the idea and has power to change the direction of the idea.

If we are all Americans then the protection of her idea we all have at heart. (Freedom) This idea of the founding fathers have been tested through the years and the way America is growing for everyone, her idea can not just be protected and owned by old white men. This dwarfs the best to lead over the idea if the pool of leaders can only come from old white men. Like yesterday, enough, not this time. There is no DNA claiming you an American. Anyone here can join her club and if you were born here you can lead over her idea, the rules are in place and have been for over two hundred and thirty three years.

Where will you be at 11:00 pm. November 4, 2008? Will you be gathering the way it was back in 1863 at midnight. Will you be waiting to witness history in real time? Will you look back at history and remember? Will you cry or curse? For me, I’m going to thank God for letting me play a small part in this change of history and for being born at the time I was in order to feel the impact like only I and others of my time can only feel. I’m going to cherish everything I’ve ever done that got me to witness such an hour, then I’m going to exhale and get back to the business of business being part of the idea with larger inspired hope for America, if she’s changed.

Gaidi

Can’t vote for a black man?

Can you feel it in the air, is it on your mind within five minutes after waking up, are you wondering or battling, are you looking for someone or some group to identify with? Which of these are you? I’m talking about the 2008 Presidential election between a Black and White man.

In my opinion, this battle is a real concern for white’s, especially in the demographics of baby boomers and older. This demographic holds the history of this Nation’s race policies from it’s conception. This group is and are the direct descendents of legally owing another human being and being owned by another human being … Imagine this.

You’re at home, you’ve just had a productive day at work, the children are enjoying childhood and you wife is having a hard time removing the look of happiness from her face that was reviling her eagerness to have you back at home with her. You begin to settle in when you here an eruption from the calm in the neighborhood. Your neighbors are yelling at someone, children are crying and women are screaming; now you’ve got to investigate.
...You go outside and see men of another race storming the neighborhood door to door snatching families out of their homes tying them up and separating the men, women and children. The men that were fighting back against this unfriendly race were beaten mercilessly. They were being clubbed, stabbed, and shot with a weapon you’ve never seen. You being the head of state raced to these villains pleading for this violence to stop when you too were clubbed and in your semi-conscious saw your family being man handled, and your children mistreated. Co-operation was the only way to survive.
...You were marched miles away from home and your head stayed in perpetual motion searching for your wife and children. For days you marched with no food, only water and when you tried to speak to these Mirada’s you were beaten once again. Finally you arrive at the Ocean and saw these ships. You saw hundreds and hundreds of your people struggling to free themselves from these chains in order to avoid going too and upon these ships ripping hands, arms, and feet from their limbs too escape and get back were ever home was.
...On the ships you were packed like bags of grain on top of and next to each other in its bow. It was hot, no air circulation, no were to relieve yourself of bodily functions, so you did this act on each other. You constantly wondered about your wife and children. This pale race of men would force feed you if you tried to starve yourself to death rather then continue living like this. They’d put this mush of food on mechanical steel tongues then you were to open your mouth and they’d open the tongues so the food would slide in. If you didn’t open up they forced the tongues into your mouth by busting out your teeth sticking the tongues into your throat then opening them up so the food would slide directly into your belly.
...Many days later, too many to count, you arrive at a new land. Many of your people on the ship with you died chained to one another while on the long voyage.
Next you were put on display and prodded like cattle by this strange race. Your women were handled the same way as well, likewise the children. For some reason this race of people ruled over you, they stripped you of your name, beat you, tortured you, lynched you, and over the years you were forced upon your women to breed with them, no love and no knowledge of who they were or where they were from just breed no matter how young or old, or die.
You watched your women and daughters being used and raped daily. They were taken from your bed and their rooms, raped in front of you and given back sometimes days later just to humiliate you. This race use them this way to teach you just how powerful they are over your life and how they could kill you or her if so desired so you better co-operate and go along with the program. You and other men like you were beaten and lynched for fun and pleasure or just to pass the time. They had the power of life or death over you, then one day it stopped.
...Some law was passed so these rulers couldn’t rule you anymore. This race of men still broke the law with brutality and got away with it, but you fought on and through the years this brutality slowed down but equality and respect is not quite there yet which brings me to today.

You see, I know this pass and so do a lot of people like me because we lived it, I’m a Boomer, I remember segregation and institutional racism but my children and younger don’t know or lived this pass. I know white people my age and older and white’s from bigoted families that hand down that ugly pass will never get into their ignorant heads that people are people and want to peruse basic needs for their families with the freedom this nation says it’s based upon, and they don’t want to be beneath any other race or culture. These bigots are the problem from making this Nation greater than it can imagine but try telling them that. This ideology holds us back so we all loose. As Americans we all have a stake in this land, too her cause, in her strength, about her well being and for her prosperity. Not just white people.

Do you feel it in the air, is it on your mind within five minutes after waking up, keep wondering or battling, are you looking for someone or some group to identify with? Which of these are you, because you know Obama’s the right and only rational choice this time, don’t you, or is it, you can’t vote for a black man because?

Gaidi

The Bailout or Rescue

A short note on how to save our nation’s financial network and economy. Forget the seven hundred billion dollars ($700,000,000,000.00). The population of America is three hundred four million (304,000,000). I suggest everyone receive one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) this equals three hundred four million dollars ($304,000,000.00). Why not if we’re entertaining the thought of socialism for fat cats, why not us. I’ll guarantee you that the economy will sore and the financial network along with Wall Street will be fine. This would save the tax payers six hundred ninety nine billion six hundred ninety six million dollars
($699,696,000,000.00).

The banks are holding this nation hostage unless they get what they want. They want the Government to buy the worthless paper they hold or they’ll stop doing business. Has the government been in the urban area lately? If they let these houses sit without upkeep, tax payers will lose because these houses will have to be destroyed and many need to be already. Nobody is going to move in those areas again unless they’re leveled.

I’ve said before that something had to be done drastic and now, well see the above, it’s cost effective, drastic, can be done now and will be a guaranteed success without question. This sounds silly doesn’t it, and so does $700,000,000,000.00 with a less than 50/50 chance return on investment for me but a 100% return on investment for fat cats. It’s I don’t know when for me but now for the fat cats. It’s you can loose for me but win, win for fat cats. I might even be able to keep my retirement if they get the money, but they keep money, jobs, cars, boats, homes, and company perks.

Let the predators fail like any other business that ignores good business practices and watch new transparent but regulated finance / investment firms stem from those failures and flourish. Those investment firms are not monopolies. Set up a bureau to help transfer rather than bail out to firms willing to be transparent now until new laws are made. Keep the government roll in this to help the victims not the predators. Investigate firms who made bad loans for greed and exploited the poor and ignorant. We understand we’ve got to help the poor and underprivileged but not exploit them with certain failure; fat cats should be responsible for their practices and bad loans should be restructured so people can keep their homes.

Gaidi

McCain and Obama and Town Hall Meetings?

I’ve started giving some thought about the town hall meetings McCain kept shoving down Obama’s throat. I keep thinking how McCain was challenging Obama, damn near daring him. I keep seeing the smirk on McCain’s face as he sarcastically belittles Obama for refusing his invitation. Well McCain be careful what you ask for because you just might get it.

I watched the first of these two guy’s debate and saw something I didn’t think I’d see but it hit me in the face. McCain couldn’t look at Obama. I’m no way saying I’m the only one who saw this because others have talk about it, but since I blog I thought I’d give my slanted opinion about it.

First, McCain can’t look at Obama, what would he do at town halls? At the debate the lights were turned down so you couldn’t see the audience, you could only see the moderator and each other. The moderator would ask McCain a question that was directed to Obama and several times he, the moderator asked McCain to direct his answer to Obama and not him, but McCain didn’t or couldn’t. When Obama was asked to do the same, he did and continued to do it the rest of the night. YOUR PRESIDENT MUST LOOK PEOPLE IN THE EYE OR THEY’LL APPEAR WEAK AND INTEMADATED.

So this is what hit me in the face. Being a black man I’ve experience dabs of racism that’s so common that it’s not even worth thinking or talking about. One of the dabs is many white people ignore black people. We don’t exist. This kind of white person walks all over us. If I’m engaged in a conversation with a white person and this type of white person comes up, they talk to the person I’m talking too interrupting our conversation, not to ask a quick thought and go, or to add to the conversation, but to pull that person away from me and divert their attention toward them as if I wasn’t there.

I’ve been on elevators and watched white people share thought with other white people until they’ve reached their selected floors leaving me and another white person on the elevator. I’ve watch this kind of white person turn and stare strait into the wall until my or their floor comes up. Sometime I try to continue the conversation they were having with the others but I may as well have been talking to myself or the wall.

I’ve asked this type of white person questions about something or other and they’ll answer the white person that may be standing next to me, and that white person never said anything to them.

I’ve asked this type of white person questions and they’re so busy, I’ve got to chase them back and fourth for the answer plus if a white person asks them something while I’m chasing them trying to get my answer, they stop to answer the white person and again they’re off and running as I continue trying to get mine.

I’ve been first in line with no cashier when that type of white worker comes up and says to the white person behind me, may I help you, as if I wasn’t there.
In other words, what McCain was doing to Obama had an ugly undertone too it.

What was McCain thinking? Did he think Obama wasn’t there? Did he want to ignore him? Could he dare think that a black man had no business being on the same stage with him; not to say challenge him or call him out about his policies, issues and his poor judgment on so many things pertaining to the Presidency they both are campaigning for?
Was McCain showing his age and the era he’s from as far as black men are concern? Was he thinking this is a joke and why is he involved? Is McCain an elitist? No, I think McCain is surprised and stunned. I think McCain’s life was passing in front of his eyes. I think McCain feels what Hillary and Bill felt.

Twentieth century politics is long gone. America is a few weeks from becoming a great nation again. For the people by the people is the drum beat. Honesty and integrity is the order of business. America is about to be global for all and not exploited by a few. The world will be a smaller place with opportunities galore for a nation of proud but united people once more. American’s again will be welcomed all over the world with open arms because of the leadership of one man … Barack Obama.

Get out and vote this November. This is the most important election ever. Our nation’s future and sovereignty depends on it. Vote Democratic.

Gaidi