Hello again, blogfans!
MDB and I went out for breakfast this morning and, since we were on our way to the baseball game in Houston, we'd stopped in a small (but getting bigger by the second!) town along the 288 corridor. This particular town has become predominately African-American for whatever reason, so we were exposed to large numbers of AAs at the place we chose for breakfast.
No big deal, mind you, but it led to an interesting observation!
That observation is this; what will African-Americans do if Obama fails as miserably during the rest of his term as he has thus far?
Here's what I mean.
I don't KNOW any AA person who DID NOT support Obama during this most recent presidential election. I know that many of them agreed with his stated policies, but many if not all of them really didn't care about that; here was a legitimate AA candidate and they were going to support him come hell or high water or hell IN high water!!!!
What happens if he fails?
I mean, when you put all of your eggs in that one basket and the basket has a huge hole in it, what do you do when the eggs hit the ground and shatter?
Obama is Humpty Dumpty as surely as I am a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant living in Texas!
Maybe AAs had better have a look around and jump off that ship before it rolls over them!
Those tea parties had LOTS of participation!
I think JC Watts is looking pretty good right about now! Maybe Alan Keys isn't as big an Uncle Tom as we were led to believe!
Here's what I'm trying to say (now that I'm done dropping lame metaphors!); AA voters were happy that they finally got a legitimate candidate into the White House, but he'd better DELIVER for them or it will be a very LONG TIME before voters will trust another one!
Obama is carrying their banner; I hope for their sake that he isn't as big a rube on an OJT mission as he appears to be at this stage of his presidency!
It'll be 50 years before another AA candidate has a chance if that's the case!
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