I wrote this about five years ago. Some of the people I label as racists may no longer hold office, but you can bet that in some states a racist replaced them. We now have a major upheaval in this country as more people want to see the uncashed checks that Martin Luther King talked about finally get cashed and deposited.
“Einnie, meanie, miney moe, catch a nigger by the toe. If he hollers, let’em go. Einnie meanie miney moe.”
Between 1868 and 1969, 3,446 African Americans were lynched in the United States. Some for looking at a White woman, some for being uppity, some for not getting off the sidewalk when a White person was coming, some for smiling, some for laughing and some for no other reason than they were Black. Today of course, we point with measured pride to the fact that the President of the United States of America is an African American man. I say with measured pride because President Barack Obama is perhaps one of the most reviled and hated men to ever hold the office. Gun sales have gone through the roof since his election along with an increase in hate groups. If Obama says the “Sky is blue today,” he is called…
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