David Gergen gets it:
This might be the hundredth time I've heard someone point this out, but perhaps Gergen's direct nature will help drill the message home. Still, I wonder how many people watch ABC's This Week compared to those who hear rumors on the Internet, spread John McCain's vitriolic attacks like a virus via YouTube (there's a reason I haven't posted any of them, despite the ads' ready availability elsewhere) and otherwise hear the message that the Republicans (and Joe Lieberman) are spreading: that Barack Obama is one uppity nigger who need learn his place, and that like all the other African-Americans that gain widespread fame in this country (athletes, actors, musicians), he's nothing more than a "celebrity" whose opinion is therefore devalued.
Call it crying wolf all you wish - I don't care. I know what is happening, from experience. It's happened to virtually every African-American man who has dared assume his rightful place in society after working as diligently as we were always told we needed to. Don't tell me I can pull myself up by my own bootstraps if I'm later going to be told that I'm too big for my britches.
This might be the hundredth time I've heard someone point this out, but perhaps Gergen's direct nature will help drill the message home. Still, I wonder how many people watch ABC's This Week compared to those who hear rumors on the Internet, spread John McCain's vitriolic attacks like a virus via YouTube (there's a reason I haven't posted any of them, despite the ads' ready availability elsewhere) and otherwise hear the message that the Republicans (and Joe Lieberman) are spreading: that Barack Obama is one uppity nigger who need learn his place, and that like all the other African-Americans that gain widespread fame in this country (athletes, actors, musicians), he's nothing more than a "celebrity" whose opinion is therefore devalued.
Call it crying wolf all you wish - I don't care. I know what is happening, from experience. It's happened to virtually every African-American man who has dared assume his rightful place in society after working as diligently as we were always told we needed to. Don't tell me I can pull myself up by my own bootstraps if I'm later going to be told that I'm too big for my britches.
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