ClubMantra
07-16-2008, 02:59 PM
A fwd email, Subj: Happy 75th Anniversary - The Mis-Education of the Negro
After hearing the many speeches Obama has given since he supposedly secured the Democratic nomination, I am appalled with the direction he has taken and with his condemnation of Black voters who were overwhelmingly responsible for his "success." I cringed when I heard the words he spoke at the NAACP convention about "Black people being responsible and accountable for their actions" because if he really felt this, why didn't he say these things during the primary process. But, now that he's "in", he feels it's his responsibility to chastise Black folks. How stupid can Blacks folks be; better yet, does Obama think Black folks are stupid and foolish voters? Well, I guess he does.
If Clarence Thomas or Ward Connolly had uttered the same words, Black folks would be condemning them from here to east-jablip. When Bill Cosby uttered similar words at a commemoration for the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (2004), many Blacks were up in arms ready to rebel. Even Michael Eric Dyson wrote a book condemning Cosby for his words. Yet, I wonder if Michael Eric Dyson, "a yellow nigger with good hair" (his words in 2005) will write a book condemning Obama for the bullcrap he espoused at the NAACP convention? Never mind, I read April 4, 1968 and got a major MIGRAINE.
By the way, has Obama spoken at the NACCP convention in the past, and if so, what did he say? That's right, "Ninety-nine Blacks and Barack ain't one!"
Below are passages from Dr. Carter Goodwin Woodson book, The Mis-Education of the Negro, written 75 years ago. Why are Blacks still potically stuck in the past. Damn, damn, damn! Have a wonderful and thought-provoking day! Cleodine Velvet Jackson
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The Mis-Education of the Negro, Dr. Carter Goodwin Woodson
"The Negro should endeavor to be a figure in politics, not a tool for the politicians.
This higher role can be played not by parking all of the votes of a race for one side of the fence as both blacks and whites have done…but by independent action…Any people who will vote the same way for three generations without thereby obtaining results ought to be ignored and disenfranchised."
"As a minority element the Negro should not knock at the door of any particular political party. He should appeal to the Negroes themselves and from them should come harmony and concerted action for a new advance to that larger freedom of men.
The Negro should use his vote rather than give it away to reward the dead for some favors done in the distant past."
"The enemies of the race, for example, will find a Negro willing to do certain things they desire to have accomplished and will finance him and give him sufficient publicity to get before the world, for the few favors which he may dispense among his followers as a result of his influence and economic position will bring to him the adequate number of Negroes for the constituency he desires."
"A Negro with sufficient thought to construct a program of his own is undesirable, and the educational systems of this country generally refuse to work through such Negroes in promoting their cause. The program for the uplift of the Negroes in this country must be handed over to an executive force like orders from the throne, and they must carry it out without question or get out of line and let the procession go on. Although the Negro is being daily forced more and more by segregation into a world peculiarly his own, his unusually perplexing status is given little or no thought, and he is not considered capable of thinking for himself."
Dr. Carter Goodwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro, 1933
After hearing the many speeches Obama has given since he supposedly secured the Democratic nomination, I am appalled with the direction he has taken and with his condemnation of Black voters who were overwhelmingly responsible for his "success." I cringed when I heard the words he spoke at the NAACP convention about "Black people being responsible and accountable for their actions" because if he really felt this, why didn't he say these things during the primary process. But, now that he's "in", he feels it's his responsibility to chastise Black folks. How stupid can Blacks folks be; better yet, does Obama think Black folks are stupid and foolish voters? Well, I guess he does.
If Clarence Thomas or Ward Connolly had uttered the same words, Black folks would be condemning them from here to east-jablip. When Bill Cosby uttered similar words at a commemoration for the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (2004), many Blacks were up in arms ready to rebel. Even Michael Eric Dyson wrote a book condemning Cosby for his words. Yet, I wonder if Michael Eric Dyson, "a yellow nigger with good hair" (his words in 2005) will write a book condemning Obama for the bullcrap he espoused at the NAACP convention? Never mind, I read April 4, 1968 and got a major MIGRAINE.
By the way, has Obama spoken at the NACCP convention in the past, and if so, what did he say? That's right, "Ninety-nine Blacks and Barack ain't one!"
Below are passages from Dr. Carter Goodwin Woodson book, The Mis-Education of the Negro, written 75 years ago. Why are Blacks still potically stuck in the past. Damn, damn, damn! Have a wonderful and thought-provoking day! Cleodine Velvet Jackson
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The Mis-Education of the Negro, Dr. Carter Goodwin Woodson
"The Negro should endeavor to be a figure in politics, not a tool for the politicians.
This higher role can be played not by parking all of the votes of a race for one side of the fence as both blacks and whites have done…but by independent action…Any people who will vote the same way for three generations without thereby obtaining results ought to be ignored and disenfranchised."
"As a minority element the Negro should not knock at the door of any particular political party. He should appeal to the Negroes themselves and from them should come harmony and concerted action for a new advance to that larger freedom of men.
The Negro should use his vote rather than give it away to reward the dead for some favors done in the distant past."
"The enemies of the race, for example, will find a Negro willing to do certain things they desire to have accomplished and will finance him and give him sufficient publicity to get before the world, for the few favors which he may dispense among his followers as a result of his influence and economic position will bring to him the adequate number of Negroes for the constituency he desires."
"A Negro with sufficient thought to construct a program of his own is undesirable, and the educational systems of this country generally refuse to work through such Negroes in promoting their cause. The program for the uplift of the Negroes in this country must be handed over to an executive force like orders from the throne, and they must carry it out without question or get out of line and let the procession go on. Although the Negro is being daily forced more and more by segregation into a world peculiarly his own, his unusually perplexing status is given little or no thought, and he is not considered capable of thinking for himself."
Dr. Carter Goodwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro, 1933