'DARKEST' AFRICA

A World Still "Stuck" on Color

 

Today, the first Black President travels to  "Deepest", "Darkest" Africa.  A place we've all been taught to fear in many ways; from the beat of the drum in our music, to the slightest hint of darkness in a person's skin in our visual media.  The "Supremes" confirmed that this week, in their ruling on Voting Rights; and the Trayvon Martin Trial has it on display for the entire world to see. 

 

A cursory comparison of the black witnesses to others, and the exclusion of blacks from the jury, shows the impact of more than 300 years of white, male, rule in this country.  "Keep Them Barefoot and Ignorant"; their guiding policy, has worked, un-mistakably!  But can Whites, and the Planet afford to continue this travesty??  The "Supremes" seem to think so.  With their magic black key (Justice Thomas), they have re-convened the Taney Court.  Homer Plessy, who was whiter than Marco Rubio, became the principal around whom that Court "defined" who was white, and who was not; and set the stage for JIM CROW legislation that haunts us to this day.  Roberts and company appear to want more of that!

 

In 1961, I was working at the U.S.P.H.S. Hospital in San  Francisco.  I also lived on those splendid grounds (now a high-end residential location).  Ghana was in its early stage of "independence" from Europe.  A very well educated gentlemen came, sponsored by our State Department, to learn Hospital Administration.  I got to know him, (he lived in my "empty" hotel).  He told me that Africa would "continue to go like this (palms up), until it could afford to go like this (palms down).  After more than 50 years, that time has not yet arrived!  Europe continues its rape of the sub-Saharan part of the continent, while, lately, it has to contend with China's interests in Africa's raw materials.  I wrote a book review for one of my classes at San Francisco State, on the "Winds of Change" in Africa.  In those days, there were countries with names like "Tanganyika" , and "Northern Rhodesia".  The whites in South Africa now live in the shadows, and in fear;  hoarding their wealth.  A sorry pass!

 

What's left of the Republican Party, continues to break apart on the "rocks" of color.  Nixon and Reagan set the Party on this course; based on anti-black sentiments; but, today, the problem lies in the color of the immigrants arriving across our Southern Border -- now simply designated as "THE" Border.

 

Stay Vigilant!  Find Ways to Clean "House" in 2014?? 

 

 

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