Age is a High Price for Maturity

Don't know what that has to do with anything. Saw a similar quote earlier today.

Thoughts about the United States finally sacking up and electing a brown President:

My caucasian sisters & brothers: do not try to claim his half white lineage. "Why does everyone keep calling him black? His Mother was white." Because, you historically challenged motherscratcher, your ancestors made damn sure that "one drop of black" meant no rights or privileges. If one of your people made the mistake of breeding with one of them, no quarter was given. Y'all made that bed. Happy slumber. Besides, are you so threatened that you can't let some black and mixed race people have a moment without you? All these years of domination weren't enough?

There will be an ongoing weeding out of racists over the next 4 years. A flurry of them will willingly emerge from under the protective cloak of hysterical conservatism (which is very nicely explained here. Thanks to CStrom for that article.) early in Obama's term, but it will be a long process of separating the merely ignorant from the hateful. Some will be afraid to say anything for fear they will be called racist, even if they offer simple political criticism. And there will be folks ready and waiting to slap them with the label regardless of what gets said. I feel for and understand both sides of that. I wish it weren't so. This next step in race relations in this country will be touchy, but so very necessary.

I realized, when I saw Rev. Jesse Jackson in the crowd in Chicago on Election Day, that I was deeply relieved that a black man who is NOT a religious figure has risen to prominence in the USA. Our President is a black man of education, intellect, ideas and charisma. Not religion. When Rev. Jackson ran for President back in the day, people would ask me "So, you gonna vote for him?" and I'd say no. I am a massive believer in separation of church and state and yes, I know that is grey area when it comes to how and why this country was founded. But there is one thing that most people don't realize: being a minister or pastor was the pinnacle of black male power in this country for a very long time. It is ingrained in the black culture and one of the symptoms of that is a blind following of religious authority. We tend to sit in church, waiting to be fed what to think, what to do and what to believe. That pack mentality is one of the reasons I rejected religion back in my teens.