Tell Them They Can, Senator Obama
“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” - Benjamin Franklin
Never before in our nation’s history has the distinction between Constitutional guarantees of equal opportunity and the false perception of guaranteed equal outcomes been so blurred and indeed sullied. Barack Obama has craftily employed a messianic appeal to an ever expanding victim class he seeks to define, one in which he is attempting to corral the middle class in order to direct a majority ire at the “rich.”
The Obama plan is to “spread the wealth around” even more than we already do - nearly 40% of Americans are already net income tax redistribution recipients rather than contributors. Yet, those who dare challenge his plans are ironically derided as radical, as well as unsubtly characterized as rascist - now the trump card played to dismiss and then silence objection to a Socialist agenda.
I am growing very tired of being accused of being some sort of racist because I am white and I oppose Barack Obama as well as just about everything that he espouses, including - regardless of ethnicity - those he has chosen to surround himself with his entire adult life.
Many of my students are black. Many of them are Hispanic. Many of them are Asian. Many of them are white. Most of them grew up poor, just like I did.
All of them are American.
And many of them have carried a significant burden that has nothing whatsoever to do with the color of their skin, their level of income or their faith. And this burden has weighed them down with a relentlessness and a ruthlessness that is crippling. And most of them never even knew it. But I know it. I knew it. Because I too carried it.
It’s simple. No one ever told them that they can. No one ever told them explicitly that in this country you can do whatever it is that you want to do. No one ever told them. Just like no one ever told me.
Like me, most of them grew up in a household that, when the news was watched and a story covered something negative, the co