The Blog of Mike Beckham
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Why the Tea Party is a sham
Mar 23rd
The Tea Party is not about taxes, it’s not about a Government takeover of Healthcare (which could not be further from the truth). What it is about can be witnessed by their signs with Obama as Hitler imagery and racist, and homophobic slander. Comments like “What is happening to my country”, all this goes back to the same people at Palin rallies in the 2008 election. They still have not gotten over loosing the election to someone they think is not legitimate in almost every way imaginable.
A man still branded un-American, even not a citizen or not recognised as a Christian, despite his long-held Church relationships. Instead he is an Immigrant of some kind, who is President through a fraudulent election and on top of that possibly Muslim. I’m sure his race and name don’t help either.
Let me be clear, the Conservatives against Health care reform are not the target of this post, you have a right to disagree. This post is directly targeted at those on the extreme far right fringe, which is constantly becoming the new mainstream in the Republican party. The ones who hold up signs screaming “Get the Government out of my Medicare/Medicade”. Oblivious to the fact without Government there wouldn’t be these services in the first place.
You have to think most of these people are brought to these locations by people using them as pawns, by the Glenn Becks and the other far right crusaders. People who are wound up through the deliberate narratives spewed out by Fox News and Right Wing talk radio, who are not getting the full story and the bigger picture and most importantly the truth.
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann yet again summed up my feelings more soundly than I can.
Vindication
Nov 6th
Sometimes your faith is vindicated, this is one of those situations. The election of President-Elect Barack Obama reaffirms your faith in Americans that when something is so broken and requires massive change, they have the guts to do it.
It’s a moment we will remember, you can try and brush it aside. However those who fought and died in Selma or the preachers and activists who fought to be recognised as Americans and for their children to go to the same schools as white children – to those people and their ancestors, and all African Americans this is a time where as Whoopi Goldberg said “A day where I felt like I could put my suitcase down”. A day when the “American” in “African American” really means something.
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Not to forget the fight of Martin Luther King Jr. was not that long ago historically speaking. To move so far in what arguable is a short period of time is astounding. In Australia we only JUST apologised to The Stolen Generation, I await the day Australia can elect an Aboriginal for Prime Minister. I unfortunately think that is a long way off, we have not even addressed the inhumane ways we treat them still to this day. American has grown up – I hope we can too.
America has been known as the shining beacon of freedom, in the last 8 years that has been tarnished but as proven by yesterdays result – not extinguished. The proof that America has not given up it’s ideals, its hope and it’s humanity is proven by its will to move on and write a new page for America and the rest of the free world.
No matter your political affiliation you must realise this is something that had to happen, it had to be achieved – not just the racial aspect but the change of leadership. The change to a new leader who can instill spirit and resolve in America and the World. A leader who can make Americans so energised to break voting records and to elect someone who 50 years ago could not go to the same drinking fountain as a white man.
As a President, we will have to wait to see how good of a job he will do, and judge him just like we would any President of any race, sex or party affiliation. That fair judgment is something we owe to African Americans, to do what Dr. King and others fought for, to be judged on the content of their character and not by the colour of their skin.
