My Mother’s thoughts on the protests against President Obama’s speech to school children… (I share her opinion)

This furor is sadly reminiscent of towns in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and in Little Rock, Arkansas in the mid fifties. Immediately following the passage of Brown v Board of Education, rather than follow the law of the land and send their children to school with black children; white parents kept their children out of school, school districts suspended operations for the school year, and white Christian churches along with ‘good’ white citizens opened private schools for their children. Not-so-fast forward to 2009… what do these parents think?

If their children neither see nor hear, President Obama, then they won’t have to acknowledge that he is president?

These folk have tried nearly every trick in the book… tea parties, birther conspiracies, virulent, disruptive, orchestrated town hall meetings, and now this.

What will be next?

In 1851 in Akron, Ohio, the great freedom fighter, abolitionist, and womanist, Sojourner Truth was scheduled to speak at a women’s rights convention.  As she rose from her seat to make her way to the podium, the crowd began to whisper, boo and hiss.  They became more intense and began screaming, “don’t let her speak, don’t let her speak”.  At the podium, she delivered her powerful, now legendary speech, “Ain’t I a Woman”.  On tomorrow,  perhaps Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, as he stands at the podium affixed with the seal of the president, should say “Ain’t I the President”

The funny thing to me (this is Terence talking now) is how conspicuously the mildly sensible media has avoided saying that ALL OF THIS is about RACE. They keep trying to reduce the uproar to political squabbling completely ignoring that the only reason anyone is up in arms is because of the ethnicity of the president’s father.