No, He Can't- Phyllis Orth Sparks e-mail

Racism goes both ways in black and white. A fairly long but interesting read.

Sam


Subject: No He Can't!
Anne Wortham is Black, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University 's Hoover Institution. She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Philosophical Association. She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer's television series, "A World of Ideas." The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, A World of Ideas. Dr. Wortham is author of The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues. She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for
civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and cultural marginality. Recently, she has published articles20on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness. Shortly after an interview in 2004 she was awarded tenure.


This article by her is another point of view......



No He Can't
by Anne Wortham


Fellow Americans,
Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am no t race conscious. I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America .


I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival, – all that I know about the history of the United States of America, all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America . Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the sl ender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have
to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn't look like them. I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration, – political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.


I would have to believe that "fairness" is the equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.


Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead – and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.



So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a black man to the office of the president of theUnited States , the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over – and that Fonda w on. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black person. So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America . Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton , Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to – Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson's
Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine, – what little there is left, – for the chance to feel good. There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.

PHS 50 Classmates- Tom & Carolyn Lynch e-mail

Thanks Carolyn and Tom. I didn't know. Bad news and funeral visits are our social life anymore. Occasionally, a young relative"s wedding.

Jerry lost his wife last year. I haven't seen Bob since high school. This PHS '50' sinner will pray for each of them.

Sam

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom and Carolyn Lynch
To: Sam ; tatru@roadrunner.com
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 11:17 PM


You probably already know this, but Gwili just called us and said Gerry DeArmond fell and broke his hip. I think just happened yesterday and he is coming home tomorrow. Said he is doing good. Also, Bob Whitehouse passed away about January 20th. Thought you would be interested if you didn't know. "Talk" to you soon.

Poem- Winter in Ohio- E-mail Deloris Salyers

Deloris Salyers is second from the left in this New Boston Photo

WINTER Poem

It's winter in Ohio
And the gentle breezes blow
Seventy miles an hour
At thirty-five below.

Oh, how I love Ohio
When the snow's up to your butt
You take a breath of winter
And your nose gets frozen shut.

Yes, the weather here is wonderful
So I guess I'll hang around
I could never leave Ohio
I'm frozen to the ground!

Found this interesting- Sarah Dupuy Rapp e-mail

----- Original Message -----
From: Sarah Rapp
Subject: Fw: Fwd: Found this interesting...!




Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 12:04 AM
This will blow your mind.
Immigrants Over 65

Immigrants 65 or older can now apply for SSI and Medicaid and get more than a U.S. citizen born in the 1920s. For example, a typical American born in 1924 with a median income who worked from 1944 to 2004 receives only $791 a month. Incredibly, the federal government provides a single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890. In addition, each immigrant can obtain $580 in social assistance for a total of $2,470 a month. This contrasts to a single American taxpayer who, after contributing to the growth and development of this country for 40-50 years, receives a monthly maximum of $1,012 in old-age pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement. Maybe U.S. citizens who have paid into the social security fund over a lifetime should apply as refugees!

Does anyone have any doubt why our social security fund will be running out of money soon?

Consider sending this to all your American friends so we can all be sufficiently motivated to reverse this situation by getting the refugee handouts reduced to $1,012 and the compensation for U.S. pensioners increased to $2,470. This way, American citizens can start enjoying some of the hard-earned money we were forced to involuntarily contribute to the government over the last 40-60 years.

Please forward this e-mail to20every American friend you know so we can expose what our elected politicians have been doing during the past 11 years to us over-taxed Americans.

Medical alert- E-mail from Sarah Taylor

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* Don't smoke-Experiment from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher).

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French Underground-Greatness among the French

I must research the French underground people. They were brave beyond measure and were shown in many WWII movies from time to time. The French have accrued a name of cowardice, but it was not universally so.

Pat Richards mentions below that "greed" may ruin our great nation. Our politicians come out of office now with a heckofalot more than Harry Truman did. They 'represent us' ? but darn well take care of themselves very well!

Such greed can and may ruin our great nation unless a few brave souls are vigilant.

Harry Truman- Pat Richards Whitehead

My first option as a voter was Mr Truman. I never regretted it as I
have all others since.I have spoken with him twice and had the opportunity
to shake his hand once.. The experience, both times was as it might be when
you and I meet. I consider that he , probably, saved my life and 100's of
thousands others by ordering the dropping of the A bombs on Japan to end WW
11.I remember him as presidential patriot and not a democrat of the present
day variety.Ol "Giv em hell Harry was m ykinda guy.

Jack Plymale





Sam
I was just reading your blog and saw that you posted this. I was going to make a comment but I still don't know how. I was just going to say that I agree with your brother that Harry was a great president. He was such a humble man and very honest. I wish we had more honest people running our government . I am afraid greed will ruin this great Nation of ours if it alread hasn't.
Pat


HowPat is to click on Comments and proceed. Sam


My brother George is right. Harry was the last great Democrat- President or whatever. Thanks Pat! I hope my comment doesn't personally hurt you.

Sam


Subject:Harry Truman
A humble man who entered the limelight, took care of business,
then returned to being what he was; a humble man.

Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as
many important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other
42 Presidents. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did
after he left the White House.

The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in

Independence , Missouri . His wife had inherited the house from her mother
and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.

When he retired from office in 1952, his income was a U.S. Army pension
reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was
paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance'
and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.

After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to
Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.

When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating,
"You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and
that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for
sale."

Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the
Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing,
"I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any
award, Congressional or otherwise."

As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the
Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have
found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their
offices. Political offices are now for sale.

Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in
life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."