Wake, Forgotten Sleepers!

Wake forgotten sleepers…
Lift your faded hues
Loose your earthen comforters
Hear the latest news.

Brother took your mantle
Wears it proud and grand
Shook the dusty ages
With a noble stand.

Said he was the leader
Fights the rebel brand
Holds your grievance to the light
Claims he has a plan.

Speaks to seats of power
Things you could not say
Walks the Hall of Justice
Makes the masses pray.

Bares your blessed colors
Red, white, black and blue
Lives the hope you died for
Saw your dream come true.

Wake forgotten sleepers…

G.M.

watch: Mr. O & Mr. Joe
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=21fWpET45ww

Evangelical Incite

Yesterday, Barack Obama and John McCain squared off in Orange County, CA. The battle took place in a church; an “Evangelical” church in ultra conservative “Orange County, CA.” It was more like a job interview with Rick Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church. Obama interviewed pretty well, but it was clear to me that McCain got the job just by judging the congregation’s reaction to every thing that he said.

That raises these questions in my mind:

Why do 67% of all White Evangelicals want McCain to win while only 23% want Obama? Why are “Christian” churches in America segregated along racial lines while the people who attend them swear they are all going to heaven to be together with Christ?

I listened to the Obama-McCain forum on the radio. Rick Warren asked softball questions for the most part. He touched on the issues that concerned White Evangelicals like abortion, moral failures and Supreme Court Justices. He even gave both candidates the opportunity to tell the world how much of a Christian they were. But it sure seemed as if the pitches McCain got were slower and right down the middle of the plate. For instance, McCain had the crowd believing that he and one of his North Viet Nam jailors together expressed their love for Christ before the jailor took him back to the “Hanoi Hilton.”

That was hard for me to swallow… I was once a prison guard.

What was missing from the forum was any discussion on the war in Iraq, and the number of innocent civilian women and children that are now dead or permanently injured because of it. There was no mention of the fact that McCain supported Bush’s great lie which plunged the nation into a conflict that brought great moral consequences to America’s standing in the world, and has given a big assist to Russia as they now invade Georgia. Obama did mention that the American government cannot keep its promise to educate its own while spending billions of dollars each day in a “war that never should have been in the first place,” to polite applause.

But no-matter what McCain or Obama say, race will be the driving force in this election… White “Evangelicals” will vote for McCain simply because he is more comfortable for them since he looks talks and feels like the White Brethren who attend church every Saturday and Sunday. He is White like the images of Jesus Evangelicals and others have grown to believe and accept as the true image of Christ... McCain will not betray their trust when his policies cost them nothing by way of more taxes or financial sacrifice, and he will keep them singing songs and hymns that have convinced at least 67% of White Evangelicals, and many other Christians that they are favored by God above all others simply because they have misconstrued the teachings of Christ for their own benefits…

You know: “McCain said it, I believe it, and that settles it for me!”

GM

Dealing a Deck of Race Cards Not According to Hoyle

So the McCain camp finds itself short on ideas, short on enthusiasm and short of real support… They are faced with the enormous challenge of taking on the Obama camp rife with ideas, youthful vigor and standing-room-only throngs that are full of energy quite willing to use it towards Obama's election. This leaves the McCain camp with only one real choice: throw mud in everyone’s eyes and hope they do not see the real truth about who McCain really is.

Who is John McCain anyway? We know that he was a Navy pilot who got shot down in Viet Nam. We know he is a man short on temperament. We know that he is married to a wealthy woman who owns a large beer distributorship in the U.S. We know he is a Republican who now supports every decision George W. Bush made. But who is he? He said he was a “straight shooter,” and a “no nonsense Republican.” In 2004 he approached Democrats with the idea that he would consider being John Kerry’s running mate. Go figure!

For a while McCain seemed to have trouble convincing even Republicans that they should support him in 2008. Even they wondered who he really was. Because he was not Republican enough McCain got the thumbs down from famous Republicans like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. Even Ann Coulter dropped her support for McCain early on. But all seems well with McCain and his Republican base these days… What happened?

John McCain, the maverick Republican has now become John McCain, the Republican card shark. McCain now plays with “marked decks.” You can find these marked cards now at any official Republican gathering. Some are collectors items handed down by the likes of Lee Atwater (the "Willie Horton Commemorative Box”), and Strom Thurmond (the “Jim Crow Forever! Pack”)… During the election of 2000, one of these classic marked decks were also played on John McCain by George W. Bush himself. That deck was called the Karl Rove “McCain Has a Black Baby, South Carolina Edition.”

History tells us that when a Republican presidential candidate plays marked decks of Republican race cards according to Republican Hoyle, they usually win that election. Therefore, the choice has become clearer for McCain... He must pick up the deck of cards marked with Republican racial divisiveness and Republican dirt; then, play it on Barack Obama and hope to beat him in November. The mud that Mr. McCain slings must be laced with the powerful poison of race baiting, and also be strong enough to blind the willingly ignorant voters. Its potency must be capable of reaching the bloodstream and do further damage to the core of a person who might already be plagued with bigotry and hostility towards non-white people, preferably blacks or Muslims.

Fortunately, these Republican marked decks will not decide the presidential election of 2008. Obama seems to have a fresh and unmarked deck that has more aces to play than McCain has “races” to fray... According to recent polls and the enthusiasm he generates around the country, Obama will have enough votes to beat McCain, but nothing is for certain considering how the major corporations like funding Republican card games...

All Americans, not just Black Americans, have suffered under a George W. Bush administration. Foreclosures are at an all-time high as are gas prices. Job losses are at an all time high as are American factory closures... All Americans, not just Black Americans, have endured the politics of personal destruction and the politicizing of the American justice system under the leadership of George W. Bush and his enablers such as John McCain. All Americans, not just Black Americans are appalled at the presumptuous behavior of Republicans who ran the economy into the ditch while trying to sell a war that never should have been in the first place.

John McCain is now asking for four more Republican years in the White House suggesting that Americans should trust him because he is white while Obama is not? Surely you jest Mr. McCain! Even Edmond Hoyle, the foremost authority of card games and writer of detailed card playing rules said, “When in doubt, win the trick.”

The McCain card game seems full of dirty cards and tricks.

GM