Without much substance to go on, the media so enamored with Barack Obama continue trying to sell the Senator as the next Jack Kennedy. However, according to National Campaign Fund president and independent ad producer, Floyd Brown, an ironic and much more poignant commentary on Obama’s character is the opinion of those so close to a more authentic African-American leader—the late Dr. Martin Luther King.
In his blog, 2MinuteView.com, Brown quotes Dr. Alveda King, daughter of MLK’s younger brother, the late slain civil rights activist Rev. A.D. King: “Senator Obama’s answer to the ills of society, of higher government spending, weaker national defense, continued tax dollars to Planned Parenthood, and support of gay marriage, are diametrically opposed to everything African Americans truly believe and an anathema to the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”
Meanwhile, author and founder of Black Americans for Real Change, William Owens, Jr., is a student of all things King. And he is even more blunt: “It is high time for Black America, White America and all America to stop making their ethnicity such a big deal that we become zealous for our color over being zealous for what is right and what is truth.”
In his daily campaign against Obama, Floyd Brown is maintaining a website, ExposeObama.com, and releasing weekly political attack ads in the same vein as his notorious Willie Horton series that arguably sunk the Dukakis campaign in 1988.
Didn’t Dr. King say that his dream was that people would “Judge each other by the content of their character, not the color of their skin?”
I think Obama’s character has been revealed. Let us judge accordingly.
Selah
Hello, I have been thru it all, my parents as I was groing up would go to detroit. odetrit was known as a black city. the race riots and everything. I could never understand why a free country like america would allow blacks from africa to be called africaian americans, when the whites are the ones who fought for this country. I just do not understand why they were brought to america as slaves and when they were released why wernt they shipped back? If this is the case then everyone should come over, german americans, swedish americans and such, please explain thank you
Come on Jim, how old are you like 8? Your writing is sub- elementary school.
1) It’s because America is a free country that any one can call themselves anything they want to call themselves. No one allowed African Americans to call themselves anything.
2) Why weren’t we shipped back? Because our blood is in this soil too. Yeah we were here as slaves because white people couldn’t do the work - this country was built on our backs…and not just ours but the idigenous people to the Americas and every other minority group that exists here.
3) White people fought for this country, but so did African Americans. African Americans have fought and died in every major conflict in this country. It was Crispus Attcuks who was the first to die in the Revolutionary War…a black man who race wouldn’t be “given” it’s a freedom (an inalienable right, I’d say) for nearly a hundred years.
4) White people didn’t just fight for this country, you stole it from the people who were already here. You claim you discovered it (You can’t discover what already exists) and then you committed genocide under the name of Manifest Destiny to claim it as your own.
5) Lastly, everyone does come over there are Germans in PA and Swedish in Minnesota we’re all Americans. You may have been born here, but you are not of this place. So shut your American pie hole and get a clue…at the very least an encyclopedia…or since you’re obviously able to connect to the internet, why don’t you do some more reading and less writing.