makeshift pulpit

I did not watch a single minute of the inauguration, none of the pomp and circumstance.  It was my peaceful protest.  I am really not excited for Barrack Hussein Obama to be president.  I am sickened by all the hype over Obama being elected.  I DON’T CARE THAT HE’S BLACK!  How’s that for not being racist?  I actually saw a children’s book with Obama’s face on the cover titled, “Son of Promise, Child of Hope.”  WHAT?!  Son of what promise?  Child of Hope?  Yeah, he’s young…so he is a child…but it’s not like he is the Messiah, and I think people are getting carried away, just a bit.  It’s ironic that yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  I think the good Doctor would be torn about this whole event.  For those who are still alive that faced segregation, who actually lived through those horrible times and were told that they were nothing because they were colored, who were called “boy,” who were abused while people looked the other way, I think today was a great day for you.  I do.  I understand the significance for you of having a black president.  For the generations that came after, I think you got robbed.  Dr. King said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”  I think we failed this way.  If you put Obama’s credentials down on paper, he didn’t earn this.  He is a one-term senator who barely voted on anything, and was consistently late to congressional hearings.  He has no record.  His only accomplishment is that he is the first Black President of the United States.  It is affirmative action at its highest and its worst.  I have nothing, nothing, nothing against having a black president.  But I believe that it shouldn’t matter that he’s black.  I believe that he only won because he is black.  What does that say for us as a country?  Some of us still can’t see past color.  Just because prejudice has gone the other way doesn’t make it any less true and any less harmful.  I didn’t need Obama to win to see how far our country has come.  Every day I see inter-racial couples.  I see black families in good neighborhoods.  I see many many black people who have worked hard, who have earned everything they have, and I hold them in much higher regard than I do Obama.  I know that we are doing better.  I have been happy at our progress for a long time.  I think we took a step backward when we elected a man because of the color of his skin.  It saddens me.  What does that teach the rising generation?  I hope that something positive will come out of this.  I hope that this will knock the crutch out from under those who have been using their pigmentation as an excuse to not succeed. Well, not anymore, because YOU CAN BE PRESIDENT!  So, suck it up and earn what you get. (I was gonna apologize for the generalization, but it wasn’t one.  If you aren’t using your color as a crutch then the comment does not apply to you, so you will only be offended by it if you do.)
During the time that George W. Bush was president there was plenty of hate and trash talk directed at his decisions and him personally.  People wore shirts that said, “not my president,”  among other things.  Well, I am so grateful to live in a country where we are allowed to disagree.  I am grateful that I can dislike the person elected to be president and not fear the secret police.  I don’t like Obama.  I don’t agree with most democrats on most issues.  It’s not just him, but I think he represents some of the worst parts of the left extremists.  You won’t catch me with a “Not my President” Obama shirt though.  Because I am grateful for democracy.  If Obama is the President of the United States of America, then for right now, he is my president.  While I don’t feel like bigger government and more regulation will help this country, I don’t think we can afford to have him fail.  I know so many who are hurting, and so, I will still pray for Obama.  I will pray for him to not follow his agenda, but to address each problem individually and seek inspiration from whatever higher power he believes in.  I believe that he will, just like Bush did, have many difficult decisions that we may not ever understand, and I know he will not be perfect.  I just hope he has faith in the systems that have made our country so great.  I have always been and will continue to be proud every day to belong to such a great nation.