color of hate

By the end of the day on November 4, 2008 history had been made and for some Americans a sense of renewal, awareness, promise and perhaps the chance that racial bigotry might end. Barak Obama was elected president, the first man of color to be democratically elected as president of a nation striving for fair and equal. There was jubilant celebration from many and hidden secretive dredging of doom by others. There was cause for celebration by many but careless consternation by others. There was hope on the horizon for many but ruts in the road ahead by others. I believe the day this country, based on fair and equal democratic principles elected its first African American president, was the exact moment bigotry became more toxic, hate virulent, internal anti-Americanism rampant, and contempt a hideous disease. Permitted by entertainers calling themselves journalists supported by billionaire puppet masters more concerned with their own white welfare, presented by politicians having little respect for the Constitution by which they were elected to serve; a very contagious disease of Racism camouflaged as religion/patriotism erupted. Suddenly it was more then the American way to disagree with the president it was an American duty especially by white folk to deny, defy and destroy its democratic principles.

From the moment that Mr Obama was elected those in this nation whose inbred ignorance whose religious fanaticism which does not include God, whose self loathing triumphing over appreciation of self have dug in deep and have used hate as a rational for the form of governance to suit their spiteful tastes. Voter ID Laws, Stand Your Ground Laws, Drug tests for poor people, gerrymandered districts, all erupted like an active volcano which sadly had only been dormant and not extinct. Masked as the opposition party, pretending to be the pro and con of politics, the T-Party rose and engulfed an already angry and biased Republican Party. Words like bi-partisan were never permitted to be used because bi-partisan might mean being on the side of the black man in the oval office. From the first day Mr Obama was elected the dissent, the discussion, the demand for something else had little to do with policies but a whole hell of a lot to do with the color of the skin of the president. For enough Americans it was an outrageous, embarrassing moment that this nation could, would have indeed did elect a Kenyan, Socialist, Colored person to he highest office of the land. For many of those who see nothing but bias, speak nothing but bigotry, eat and drink from bogus, this election was never and would never be the MERICA that was their inherited right to claim!

Throughout the first term and the current second term of office by Mr Obama, we have seen more aggressive behavior, more animosity, more intolerance and less respect for the lives of people of color in this nation and in particular African-Americans. If anyone is surprised by the horrible murder in Ferguson, the corruption of evidence and true facts by the white people in power in Ferguson, the needling and needing to find fault with the victim and his family by conservative pundents regarding Ferguson, then they are fools and have kept their heads buried in a very white sand. I believe that if we look close enough as to when race relations became a major force of evil it will find its root in a racial event this nation was at first proud of, the election of Barack Obama, who by the way happened to be black. I believe there are too many white folk who refuse to this day to respect the democratic process with the election of President Obama, and have and are currently doing anything and everything to let him know his relevance and power are not respected, with the most egregious of positions the police in Ferguson took to shoot a kid the same color as the president.