Don't Play the (Bi) Racial Card...

On January 20th when Barak Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America it was a major milestone in our history as a country and, as a people. One hundred and forty four years ago the 13th Amendment was made to the Constitution of the United States. The highest law of the land outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude. Five years later the 15th Amendment was made to Constitution, giving the right to vote to "all citizens of the United States regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude". However it was only 45 years ago in 1964 when the twenty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution was passed. Amendment XXIV Section 1 states:

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other
election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice
President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll
tax or other tax."

And, less than 50 years ago there were cases still being heard by the Supreme Court Justices of the United States that would determine that it is unconstitutional to deny service, accommodations, education, medical care and basic human rights based on ones race, creed or color.



So, on January 20th, 2009, 144 years after slavery, the genesis of the black holocaust was outlawed, a black man was sworn in as the President of the United States of America. I repeat a black man.



Do you remember when it was the law of the land that stipulated if you had one drop of black blood in you, you were black. And this one drop was sufficient to shackle you, rape you, sell you, kill your children, hang you if you looked at a white woman, hang you because they [white people] were bored. It was sufficient to deny you the basic human rights granted to you by GOD and the Constitution, it was sufficient to place you in a position that was less than a "full" human and just above animal. One drop of black blood was sufficient to deny you an education, make you sit in the back of the bus, have your churches burned and your land taken.



When I refer to President Obama as the first black president there are those that quickly correct me and say, "actually he's bi-racial, his mother was white and his father black". That may be true however, 50 years ago if he lived in the south and attempted to vote he would have been told "boy get your black ass outta here, you know niggers can't vote". In the year 2000 it would have been sufficient in Texas to get him chained to the back of a pick up and dragged until he was physically ripped apart.



So, don't play the bi-racial card now. Tiger tried it, no one cared, they still call him black.

At the end of the day the bottom line is the United States has our first African (can't deny that) American president, a black man named Barak Obama.