The recent rants of the leader of the New Black Panther Party, (“I hate white people! Every last iota of a cracker I hate….” ) couldn’t have been more amusing. That is before justifying the killing of some cracker children.
Up until that point his speech sounded like one from a common street-corner nutcase or Chris Rock working out new material for an upcoming HBO special. But it plunged to a new level of low advocating harming children rather than protecting them. To his credit at least his message wasn’t shrouded in feigned concern about childhood obesity like Michelle Obama’s recent speech to the NAACP in which she first glossed over real strides made in this country when it comes to race relations, then focused on inadequate black schools and then launched into what she views as most crucial, the issue of fat black kids. However one has to question – If she’s truly committed to protecting black children from the harmful effects of bad eating habits why she didn’t ask the NAACP to join her in taking the following steps –
- Denouncing the New Black Panther party – After all if young black kids are influenced by them and actually off a cracker baby (as ordered) it would undoubtedly result in their incarceration – where they wouldn’t be served the healthiest of foods.
- Apologizing to Mr. Gladney – Rather than condone the beating of this black tea party member as the NAACP did, Mrs. Obama and the NAACP should instead support him for engaging in independent thought, even if his views differ from theirs. After surviving slavery at the very least haven’t black people earned the right to free thinking? If not, the minds of black people are still in chains which could be a very anxiety provoking concept to black youths – and anxiety commonly leads to compulsive eating.
- Stop crying “Racism!” – Looking for racism lurking around every corner is a very stressful way to live especially for black youths – who could then begin stress eating.
- Giving props to Bush – Critics of the tea party have made accusations of overt racism because of signs that depict Barack Obama as a monkey. I’ve been to several tea parties and have never seen them, but okay for the sake of argument there were these types of signs and they weren’t being carried by plants from the left – During the entire eight years of George Bush’s presidency you could throw a stone and hit an image depicting him as a monkey. Since George Bush is white, presidential monkey pictures in and of themselves aren’t necessarily racist. So rather than being a cry-baby about it why not follow Bush’s example of “man’ing up” and not letting it get under his skin. After all, if black youths learn to stand strong when it comes to teasing they can strong when it comes to making good nutritional choices.
- Stop twisting the Constitution – Since the founding fathers really didn’t call for equal outcomes, redistribution of wealth, abortions on demand, free health care, or protection from tea partiers; a good exercise for the first lady and the NAACP would be to read the Constitution without imposing their own agenda on to it. This may encourage black youths to do the same. The better they’re able read and comprehend, the better they’ll be able to read and comprehend those nutritional food labels.
And lastly if Michelle Obama really wanted to rid childhood obesity in the inner-city she would’ve asked the NAACP to join her in advising them not to re-elect her husband – His policies are guaranteed to keep the poor, poor. Poverty and hopelessness is depressing, and depression leads to pigging out.
Interestingly Michelle Obama didn’t say any of those things in the childhood obesity portion of the speech. Then what did her speech accomplish? For one thing it gave the media a first lady project to write about, even though Mrs. Obama offered up no solutions. More importantly it allowed Michelle to give a nod of support and words of encouragement to the NAACP, a group that has successfully transformed itself from being a legitimate civil rights organization to this administration’s willing workers; and who along with 170 other groups, including labor unions are planning to build strong momentum against patriotic Americans with the simple desire to have a reduced national debt, individual liberty, and freedom to voice their concerns about how Barack Obama’s policies are affecting their lives and the lives of their children…In other words, the Tea Party movement.