Monday's Magical Theater...

I found this piece posted on Wired.com & I found that it carried a lot of weight in so many ways.


The Elephant In The Room

Let's just get it out. They are a black family. A beautiful, sweet and loving black family, true..... but a still a black family anyway.

Now that we are being honest, can we really trust a black family to lead the United States of America?

Can we put aside those Republican expressed fears that (as Fox News called her) Obama's Baby Mama will:

-Decorate the White House in the Jamaican Red Black & Green.

-Smoke ganja & dance to voodoo music in the Lincoln bedroom?

-Declare that all running must be performed barefoot?

-Create the independent black nations of Detroit & Compton?

-Make the Dashiki part of a new Afrocentric dress code?

-Name P-Diddy the Secretary of Music?

-Make watermelon the national fruit?

For those Americans who have read Republican blogs and posts meant to frighten you, there's good news. This lovely mother Michelle Obama and her two darling daughters are just as American as me and you, with the same values of love of country, and the same dreams for her girls as you have for your children. She is a devoted wife who is truly inspired by her husband's leadership and still sincerely in love with him. She is someone who has pulled herself up from her bootstraps to make her parents proud with a degree from none other than Harvard University.

Don't be afraid of the elephant mirage in the room that no one talks about in polite conversation, but that Republicans whisper in their sinister blogs. Don't let misinformation fool you into four more years of Republican economic failure.

If some rich kid can't spend a trillion dollars right, it's time we give someone a chance who is from a family that has to balance a budget each month.... like the rest of us.

Yes, They Are Black, we can say it. It's not a bad word. Their blackness is nothing to be afraid of. The Obamas aren't an anomaly either. There are black families everywhere who are good decent, hard working American people. For all the failed policies that have destroyed the perception of our nation in the eyes of the world, the Obamas are a beacon of hope, examples of everything that is still right with America! They exemplify how education levels the playing field so that anyone in our country can achieve their dreams if they work hard at it. They are the kind of family that can inspire your kids and mind to bigger dreams and the hard work necessary to achieve it.

So let's confront the elephant and be done with it. The Obamas are black and they are also just as American as you and me.... and maybe they are even better than me! That's okay. I need a leader I can admire about right now. ...Anice Ladi

Posted by: Anice Ladi | Aug 26, 2008 10:05:08 AM

Remember to love someone EXTRA today !

T.