“God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human” is a quote from one of the recent controversial comments of Barack Obama’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Not one of the lines that receive the most attention from the media, but for me personally the quote that struck me the hardest. And maybe the reverend is…right. I guess my ignorance to this point hadn’t allowed me to properly see the truths that he exposes in the weekly lectures to his congregation.
He's right. "God damn America for treating [us] as less than human.
God damn this country for giving us the opportunity to be able to build ourselves and our lives to whatever we want them to be. Damn a nation that allows us to speak openly, allowing people like Reverend Wright to speak freely of their feeling towards the state with only the consequence of looking completely ridiculous in the public’s eyes. God damn a county where a situation like this takes place and no talk of criminal punishment is brought up because he is openly allowed to voice his opinion and those who decide to listen to this are free to also, as well as profess their faith and assemble as a congregation in the way that they feel is fit. How dare a country give someone like Barack Obama, a child of Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas, the ability to run for the highest office in the land. And to think, I thought that Mr. Wright was the one who failed to recognize these truths. Thank you for sparking these insights Mr. Wright. And to think all this time I’ve been treated “as less than human”. I can not even begin to imagine what being treated like a human must feel like. I can only hope that Mr. Wright will be able to enlighten me once again and try and describe it to me.
18 March 2008
12 March 2008
When I was in third grade, I remember thinking that Hillary Clinton was Queen of the United States. I don’t know exactly where I got this from, but I think it’s rooted from jokes that I used to hear from Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live that I just accepted as truth. However, to this point I never really had any hard evidence to say otherwise. True, the United States was not a monarchy, but for some reason I don’t think it’s too farfetched to compare her to a monarch. For eleven years she served as the First Lady of Arkansas and then held onto the same title for our county eight more years. During this period of almost two decades, she greatly expanded and sometimes questioned the limits to which a woman with this title could operate. Eleanor Roosevelt, Barbra Bush, and Nancy Reagan all put forth positive efforts in the 20th century and not quickly to be forgotten, however more so than those before her Mrs. Clinton has demonstrated to be arguable the most self-motivated and dynamic first ladies in our country’s history. No other first lady has had such an active role in the central of public policy matters. She, more than those who preceded her, put an at times relentless effort to accomplish a personal designed agenda. And whether these qualities are good or bad depends on who you ask. However, for the first time, this woman who previously moved forward with a seemingly unstoppable force, looks like she’s finally getting her throne contested. If Obama ends up getting the nomination, regardless if he prevails in the general election, will be deprive the Clinton political machine the right to proclaim “Long Live the Queen”.
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