.. Workin' His "Magic"??
Once again, we see a white ex-President, "on-stage", praising a black woman who, in life, had been "chosen", first, by whites, as "special". I was sick to my stomach when the Bush(s), both Daddy and "W", were on stage during the funeral of Coretta King. Who really believes that a "Bush" respects anybody black, after "Stand Your Ground" gun laws, and "A Fine Job, Brownie" treatment of Katrina? I understand the impact that Maya Angelou had on black women; my own daughters, for a fact. But, like Martin Luther King, she can be manipulated in death to benefit mostly those groups who are not black.
During my twenty years as an Air Force Officer, begun less than ten years after Truman's Executive Order went into effect, I met soldiers, mostly Air Force, but also Army and Navy in "Joint" assignments. They ranged in age from World War II, to post-Sputnik; were all colors; and were from every part of our country.
The variety in backgrounds and beliefs was amazing, and shocking. Remember, military "integration" "took hold" in the teeth of the Civil Rights explosions that followed the assassination of President Kennedy.
The racial strife within the military was a topic of my Master's Thesis, completed in 1972.
The variety of beliefs, and even the character, of black soldiers, was the most shocking. Those from deeper in the old South were the most "religious" and least likely to show any respect for themselves. Their belief in a "white" God was unshakable. We can see from Oprah, and others like her, where that rigid belief in a white God comes from. "Bubba" understands the power of that belief in a way that the Bush(s) will never grasp. If you have seen God Loves Uganda,, you witnessed how some of the lowest life forms Missouri produces "flipped" an entire nation in a direction of Rwandan genocide; all in the name of their white, evangelical "Jesus". The Reverend P. Thomas Stanford cited this phenomenon in his book, published more than a hundred years ago. Moctezuma believed it! Had he not, Cortes surely would have been defeated, and there would not have been a Chattel Slave Trade, inspired by Bishop Las Casas!
Black women in the United States have to be wary of the power they give others while they, child-like, believe that they are awakening some "moral force" in whites that will "save" them from the kind of sexual, gender and racial violence they face.
Stage Vigilant! Undisciplined Emotions in this age of Social and Propaganda Media can be dangerous.
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