Well, we've finally done it, elected a black president. This puts him in an unique position in the history of our nation; he has two constituencies, the voters at large who looked to him for change and the blacks who looked to him for identity; and it looks like he is betraying both groups. By continuing the corrupt policies of the criminal Bush regime Obama has reprised the role of Steppen Fetchit, the servile nigger who jumps at his master's every command. But these are different masters as we have been coming to understand. They are not the Kentucky colonel sitting on the colonnaded porch of his ante-bellum mansion sipping mint julep. No, the latest menagerie of masters are not so open. Hatching their plots behind closed doors and maintaining a level of secrecy that any Nazi regime would find it difficult to match, these masters are the central bankers and imperialists we have come to know as Neo-cons, white trash from top to bottom: Bush, Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and all the rest of this stinking collection of human garbage who have committed high treason on several counts. And many of us thinking people wonder why these hooligans aren't doing time in Federal penitentiaries. Why are those who committed such heinous crimes still at liberty?
Certainly the highest of these crimes is being led into two losing wars based on lies, deceptions, contrived "evidence", and the spectre of 9/11 being another Reichstag Fire. Mr. Obama seems to be waffling on his campaign promise to end the war in Iraq that so far has cost the American tax payers over a half-trillion dollars, money that could be much better spent in looking after the needs of our own people. But war is a major part of our history and from which our nation was formed. In the Revolution, the War of 1812, and World War Two, many brave men and woman gave their lives that we might live in freedom. But total freedom wasn't realized until the Civil Rights movement that liberated black America from the rigors of segregation. And this conflict was fought on our own soil, a struggle based on the Constitutional guarantees of equal justice under the law. Mr. Obama has received the fruits of both these conflicts but seems not to acknowledge the gifts he has received by he blood, sweat, and tears of the many brave Americans who stood up for what was right; habeas corpus, the right to a fair trial before a jury of our peers, the Fourth Amendment guarantee of security in our person, houses, papers, and effects against unlawful search and seizure. For so long as Obama tolerates torture, warrantless wiretaps and searches, detentions, and the fictitious "war on terror", so does he deny the double heritage that is his. He forgets these things at his own peril for we, the American people will have the last word as we always have had when the going got tough. There is a revolution sweeping the land; we will take back our nation from the thieves and liars who have steered our ship of state so far off course. And that is because we are a decent people, a generous people, a good people. The permanent changes will not be brought about by stuffed suits in high places, but by decent men and women who comprise our vast body of unsung heroes. Some of these we know, most of those we don't, and some of these were there and we did not notice them at the time. I'll tie this package up by identifying one of the latter, a man well known and loved in his time, and a great American in the bargain.
He was a comedian. His name was Jack Benny and his radio and television shows were very popular in the 1930's to the 1950's. There were black entertainers in that day who had made names for themselves; Nat "King" Cole, Lena Horne, Hattie McDaniel, Louise Beavers, Ruby Dandridge, among them, but they all experienced segregation and the hostility of bigoted whites. And then there was Eddie Anderson.
Eddie was a black man, the ever famous, much beloved "Rochester" on the Jack Benny Show throughout the years. Mr. Anderson wasn't just on the show, he shared top billing with Jack himself, and in that was the latter's greatness. Though he could have taken center stage at any time, he instead stepped aside and and let budding new talent emerge under his wing; Mel Blanc, Sheldon Leonard, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Frank Nelson, and Eddie Anderson with whom he generously shared the spotlight. Once when the show was on the road the troupe went to the registration desk of swank mid-western hotel to check in. The desk clerk said to Jack, "Why Mr. Benny, we are delighted to have you here - but, of course your friend (Eddie) can't stay here. This great American, Jack Benny replied, "If he doesn't stay here then I'm not staying either." Rochester stayed - and that was more than fifteen years before the Civil Rights movement.
Let's hope Obama sees the light.
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