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Civil Rights Organizations missing the mark?

In light of the KING DAY celebrations around the country by multiple speakers, veterans and newcomers alike, it appears Black America has lost sight of the prize for one reason or another. The prize as I perceive it, is the right to vote in the free election process and yet these many speakers are advocating everything from a lack of Presidential concern by Mr. Obama to litigating in courts around the country. I counter this by saying these are simply excuses for ignoring the gift that great men and women such as King gave, by making the ultimate sacrifice for the benefit of the formerly downtrodden. All that has to be done is for the many Black Americans to get off of their "shiftless cans" and go to the nearest polls and "VOTE". You don't have to be psychic or a prophet to know that if you continue to fail in your responsibility to vote in any and every issue that you are eligible, and insured by each generation as long as this great country exists, Black America will find itself in conditions as bad as if not worse than before these individuals died in vain.

Young Blacks Killing King's Dream?

From: "BlackAmerica Web NEWS...Racial Bullying Roils in Philadephia High School"

   "Inside is a cauldron of cultural discontent that erupted in violence last month---off campus and lunchroom attacks on about 50 Asian students, injuring 30, primarily at the hands of blacks."

I have spoken out against gangs and gang violence against those who might be less defensive. http://theroanoketribune.com  This is the tact of all cowards despite skin color, ethnicity, or social acceptance. It is rooted in the KKK, Skinheads, Bloods, Crips, etc...and all other animal-like, instinctually controlled beasts of the streets. King, just the opposite of these cowards, faced his oppressors out front, alone, and defiantly...like Jesus Christ. Can you not see the similarities? So, for you who participate in this sort of mob activity, expect civil society to seek you out without mercy...it simply will not be tolerated from whites or blacks by any American ethnicity in revocation of King's Legacy.

More about Haiti...

Just watched "The Comedians", a movie giving some insight into Haiti and the reign by the tyrant Papa Doc Duvalier. I ordered the film via Netflix. It has an impressive cast of Hollywood's stellar white and black actors in their younger days. The plot, scenes, and the conflict between protagonists and antagonists amount to an interesting backdrop to the country that's so profoundly and prominently in the eyes of the world today. You may also want to read the "Booker T. Washington Papers" on Haiti via the University of Illinois to better understand the relationship between the first and only independent black nation in the western hemisphere and the US...and possibly our obligation as Americans.

A word of advice to our beleaguered President:

Mr. President,

As a voter and personal supporter, it is obvious that you are on the wrong track and it doesn't take a PhD to see it, of which you have surrounded yourself with this sort of elite. I even see where you are bringing back some campaign strategists to redesign your approach with the American people. First, there is no, nor will there ever be a utopian plateau for any democracy, giving that people  are free to exercise their opinion. One major mistake you appear to keep making over and over again, is coming to the microphone and saying what the government under your administration with the help of a Democratic Congress is going to do for us. I referred to this in an article entitled "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you..."

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The government is the problem...just too damn much of it in our lives...be it healthcare, bank bailouts, housing restructuring...you name it. My pet peeve, as a veteran was with the VA in Roanoke, Virginia in my trying to provide training to veterans to secure an income within the free enterprise system, and as usual I had to overcome obstacles costing me time and money in getting this verified offer approved. You are in a war for the benefit of the American people...meaning you are going to take some losses but likewise you have to choose your battles, minimizing casualties if you expect to win the war. I have also had to go up against some major corporations over conceptual intelligence in establishing my business on a solid as a rock foundation.

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The solutions to many of these issues facing this nation are in the grasps of the people not in the ivory towers. So, do all that you can to get government out of our lives, stop trying to be the saviour to those who are just going to defy laws of consequences just to suffer the outcomes of their actions again and again...otherwise, the hope you promised will fade with each passing day and no speeches or visitations will help.

Brother!! Please!! Who the heck are your handlers?? 

It is as if you open the door to another financial give-away before closing the door with a return on the multiple bail-outs, thus far. Certainly, main street is not reaping any major benefits via their local banks, yet the Wall Street brokers are pocketing excessive bonuses hand over fist. If your administration could show us a prospectus on how these benefits are being returned for all the spending you are doing, it might be a little more comforting. Right now, you are spending money like a drunken sailor, and I have personally seen drunken sailors on liberty, dragging in with hang-overs and empty pockets. It ain't a pretty sight.