Obama is Isolating American Muslims
It is not only the Muslims Obama speaks down to and smears in public, but Obama insults Black fathers.
Amal writes:
It’s sort of amusing, but he’s heading into dangerous election territory. In his rage to win over Americans, Obama is isolating American Muslims, of which there are many, and consequently excluding them, I presume, from the American utopia he will create if he becomes President. He seems to be positively going out of his way to assure everyone that not only has he never been Muslim, he sure as hell wouldn’t want to be one. Even non-Muslims are noticing, and well, they’re not too impressed by it. Writer Emily L. Hauser has a great piece on this issue.
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By distancing himself from Muslims in America, Barack Obama is marginalizing the Muslim-American population. While his distancing is understandable, it is undesirable, especially in a country that prides itself on freedom of religion, the very thing it was founded upon; the very thing that colonists traveled across the Atlantic to seek. The concept of freedom of religion in America is a great one to be sure. However, it is only a concept. Oftentimes I feel as though it is really the “freedom to practice whatever brand of Christianity you want,” rather than the freedom of religion, period. Even this new title would be inaccurate as many analysts speculate that Mitt Romney lost the GOP Presidential nomination because he is Mormon. This is a shame. Not that I endorse Romney. I certainly do not. I do, however, support his right to be treated fairly and equally in the American political arena. If we are truly a nation that practices freedom of religion, then why all the fuss over a politician’s religious preference? Why? Because while the concept of freedom of religion is a great one, it has never reached full fruition here. In relation, Langston Hughes once wrote,
“Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.”
It is disappointing that for many Americans, Hughes’ words still ring true. I am hopeful that there will come a day when politician’s seeking any office, no matter how high, will not have to fear their political demise due to the beliefs they hold and those associated with them.
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Karla,
Thank you for your comment, and I am glad you are Langston Hughes fan too.
This is what some one wrote yesterday at Black Agenda Report:
somebody has to turn the page
written by spook , July 10, 2008
and obama is definitely not the person to do it.
i frequently get attacked by obama supporters for my absolute rejection of him. the best argument that they have is that he offers the “best chance” for someone to act in my interest and that mccain will doom us.
we’re already doomed and i don’t want anybody to act in my interest. i live in a country in which 5% (and really, with stratification, such a small fraction of that 5%) of the world’s population consumes and pollutes 25 % of everything by force.
we are not sustainable. i don’t want anybody to tell me how great this country is. it is not. everything we have we have because we took it from somebody else or abused someone to get it, at home or abroad.
americans have long confused military “success” with moral superiority. listening to obama laud our imperialist ventures makes me ill.
obama supporters keep telling me i have two choices. i don’t accept that. i don’t fear john mccain. he is not qualitatively different than any other imperial manager i have lived under. bill clinton sat through a million or more iraqis dying under sanctions. where were all the obama supporters then? where was their devotion to justice and peace? where was their fanaticism and desperation? where was the outrage during dec. 2000?
this country is doomed. we are unsustainable in any way, shape or form. we are disconnected from reality.
that is not fatalistic. it is not hopeless. i have no allegiance to this enterprise. it’s success or failure is not the basis for my decisionmaking. my hope does not depend on the survival of the united states as the “greatest nation on the face of the earth.”
will i end up dying of starvation or incarcerated? perhaps. but so have millions and millions of others and our population was at minimum complicit in helping make it so.
i don’t fear armageddon. i will not vote for the lesser of predatory evils.
if 5% vote for mckinney in 2008, maybe 10% will vote for something honest in 2012. maybe it won’t matter by then. but i’m sick of being a puppet in this consumer complicit global predation and listening to people pretend that support an alleged lesser of two evils is anything other than acting out of fear and in self interest to keep hold of my cheap ****.
i will die someday. i don’t accept this insane framework. i’m not going to pretend i do. the people who are quitting and acting out of fear and fatalism are the ones who believe there are only two choices.
i’m turning my page.
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