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On:Voting & pregnancy
By Bud Johnson
The "Old
African Warrior" |
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Woebeit I
know I'm venturing into The Outer Limits of sanity to compare
politics to sex, or voting to pregnancy. Even so, you can’t deny
that politics screws up everything it touches. Ergo, a vote is much
like pregnancy. Once you perform the act, you can only reverse the
results by abortion (impeachment, i.e., voter recall), adoption (let
others deal with your problems), or adaptation (learn to live with
your mistakes). Damn that’s a slick observation. Even if I have to
say so myself.
Square business, that pregnant thought penetrated The Twilight Zone
(of hot wired cranial circuits), as I watched the election results
roll in on TV after the nation’s voters had rolled the dice in hopes
that they had bet on the right candidates. Especially after the
Osama bin Laden’s tape immediately brought to mind that cell phone
TV ad, wherein the guy keeps changing positions and asking, “Do you
hear me now?” I don’t know how other deep thinkers interpreted the
al Qaida leader’s timely message, but from my Black perspective, I
had cause to pause and ponder whether, or not, America’s brain dead
citizens are even listening to what bin Laden is trying to tell us.
What I heard the man say is exactly what African American News &
Issues has been preaching every since 9/11. Listen very carefully to
bin Laden and then check out our archives.
Did you hear Osama say, “While I was looking at these destroyed
towers (After Israel bombed Lebanon in 1982), in Lebanon, it sparked
in my mind that the tyrant should be punished with the same and that
we should destroy towers in America, so that it tastes what we taste
and would be deterred from killing our children and women. God knows
that it had not occurred to our mind to attack the towers, but after
our patience ran out and we saw the injustice and inflexibility of
the American-Israeli alliance toward our people in Palestine and
Lebanon, this came to my mind.” If you’re among our estimated 2
million regular readers, you surely can recall several articles that
condemned Team Bush for going out of their way to insult the Muslim
nations. We even quoted Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell’s lame
excuse for dissing the Arabian nations.
However, if the mainstream media is your major source of
information, be comforted that our quote came directly from an
Associated Press article that quoted Powell, to say that America’s
reason for not attending the World Conference against Racism was
their relationship with Israel. You also should remember us
rationalizing in our March 26-April 1, 2003 edition: “If Pres.
Bush’s administration hadn’t blatantly insulted the Arabian nations,
there wouldn’t have been a 9/11. What has that to do with The New
World Order?” As you know, we also have been harping on “The New
World Order” ad nauseam, insofar as we can read the handwriting on
the wall, that adhere to the theory that people of color, throughout
the world, are not only expendable, but their populations must be
controlled. Lest they presents a clear and present danger to White
supremacy.
Okay, if you got that, let’s tie this thing together. That 2003
Eyeview, concluded, “On the other hand, if Al Gore became president,
his agenda wouldn’t be a New World Order, thus, it’s likely he would
have sent his Secretary of State to the “World Conference against
Racism,” that was held in Durbin, South Africa on August 29, 2001.
And there’s a consensus of politically astute Black perspectives,
that believes that if America hadn’t insulted the Arab nations, 9/11
wouldn’t have happened and a war on terrorism in general, or Saddam
Hussein in particular wouldn’t be necessary.” Do you agree? If so,
you can also feel where bin Laden is coming from when he warned the
America people, “Your security is in your own hands. Any state that
does not mess with our security has naturally guaranteed its own
security.”
But, alas, the election is over. So, what do we do now? Well, since
most Christian oriented Black folks have as much of a problem with
giving our baby’s babies to strangers—as we have with killing them
wile they’re yet in the womb-- the only option’s left is to adjust
our family’s lifestyle to circumstances beyond our household’s
control and learn to live with the problem. What’s done is done
aside, but it’s time out for foolish decisions, based on shallow
minded deductions. If you indulge me in a senior moment, I would
like to use myself as an example of shallow deductions. When I
played high school basketball, I was a whole lot smaller. In fact, I
was diminutive, at 5’ 5” and only 130 pounds. However, my
shortcomings gave me a big advantage when rival coaches
underestimated me and choose their smallest players to guard me.
Hello Korea, Viet Nam, Iraqi “police actions.”
Ergo, I usually stuck double-digit points on them before the coach
could call time and put -- not one, but two-- of their best
defenders on me. If you don’t get it, let’s revisit Minister Louis
Farrakhan’s warning, before Pres. Bush’s preempted strike on Iraq,
during his Feb. 23, 2003 Founder’s Day message at the University of
Illinois: “The masses of the people are trying to say something to
the president. But the president is even more emboldened after
millions and millions of people have protested against the war. He
said (their protests) would not sway him. President Bush came into
office with a determined idea to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
Sadly, he does not see that, though Iraq looks easy to America, Iraq
is only a trigger. The real thing will happen after Iraq. America
will start rolling down the hill to total destruction.
“The America that you think you know now, you will never know her
again as a world power. Mark my humble words to you.” Unfortunately,
Americans simply can’t relate to bin Laden as an equal, or an even
wiser leader than the man we’ve elected to run our country for the
next four years. Verily, verily, I say to you… call the Muslims
nations crazy religious fanatics, or terrorist, if you want to, but
many of their people consider them freedom fighters. And, it’s a
grievous mistake to underestimate them. In addition, instead of
trying to sell wolf tickets (like made in America African’s “No
Justice No Peace!” antagonist), they’re willing to die for their
(real, or imagined) freedom. I wonder if anybody knows where I’m
coming from?
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