Back In The Dayz
DNC Chairman Howard Dean has done it again. You would think by now that this guy, who screamed and hollered himself out of the presidential race, would have learned his lesson. Now don't get me wrong, I like Dean and the DNC should keep this guy at all costs. Lets go over some of his greatest hits:
On CBS: Bill Schaeffer asks Dean, what the democrats can offer? Dean's response is classical, "That's easy Bill, it can be summed up in three words, we-can-do-better." Can you imagine if the President had said that?
Next on a speaking engagement Dean says the only black close enough to the republican party is either serving meals or in the back. Thats nice coming from a guy who doesn't have blacks serving on the executive level on the DNC and like 7-UP, Dean never had blacks in his administration and by the looks never will.
But yesterdays biggest gaffe may rank up there as a classic as well. Dean on a speaking engagement with religious leaders said that the country is heading back to the 60's. Now for the old time Southern White folk, too ignorant for change, that's good news and cause to dust off the old confederate flag. But for black folk in the south, during the sixties, is a nightmare with or without Freddie Kruegger. The sixties for blacks, especially in the south, resembled so much of the 1860's. In 1860, Negros weren't freed until 1863. In 1960 Negros weren't free to take advantage of the rights and privileges as a United States Citizen. In 1860, blacks were beaten, lynched and denied voting rights. In 1960, blacks were beaten, lynched and still denied voting rights.
What else was going on during the sixties? there was a unpopular war going on in South East Asia. Racial strife in cities like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. And who can forget the War on Poverty. I know there are many many black folk who were happy that President Lyndon Johnson opened up the bank of taxpayers for social programs, such as welfare. I mean who would have thought the victims of this just cause, would be the very black folk who was happy to partake of these programs. Yeah, although the programs were free and the process was somewhat easy, it definitely came with a price. It cost blacks, their families. Single parenting was becoming the norm, men out of the household and oh yeah, crime went up.
Are these the sixties Dean was harkening too?
On CBS: Bill Schaeffer asks Dean, what the democrats can offer? Dean's response is classical, "That's easy Bill, it can be summed up in three words, we-can-do-better." Can you imagine if the President had said that?
Next on a speaking engagement Dean says the only black close enough to the republican party is either serving meals or in the back. Thats nice coming from a guy who doesn't have blacks serving on the executive level on the DNC and like 7-UP, Dean never had blacks in his administration and by the looks never will.
But yesterdays biggest gaffe may rank up there as a classic as well. Dean on a speaking engagement with religious leaders said that the country is heading back to the 60's. Now for the old time Southern White folk, too ignorant for change, that's good news and cause to dust off the old confederate flag. But for black folk in the south, during the sixties, is a nightmare with or without Freddie Kruegger. The sixties for blacks, especially in the south, resembled so much of the 1860's. In 1860, Negros weren't freed until 1863. In 1960 Negros weren't free to take advantage of the rights and privileges as a United States Citizen. In 1860, blacks were beaten, lynched and denied voting rights. In 1960, blacks were beaten, lynched and still denied voting rights.
What else was going on during the sixties? there was a unpopular war going on in South East Asia. Racial strife in cities like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. And who can forget the War on Poverty. I know there are many many black folk who were happy that President Lyndon Johnson opened up the bank of taxpayers for social programs, such as welfare. I mean who would have thought the victims of this just cause, would be the very black folk who was happy to partake of these programs. Yeah, although the programs were free and the process was somewhat easy, it definitely came with a price. It cost blacks, their families. Single parenting was becoming the norm, men out of the household and oh yeah, crime went up.
Are these the sixties Dean was harkening too?
posted by J.C. "Fanz23" Lewis, Jr | 3:56 PM
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