Bad News/Good News for Obama
The president received some bad news and some very good news on Tuesday. The inventor of the single, technological innovation that made Obama what he is today, Herbert J. “Hub” Schlafly, died and Tavis Smiley predicted the 2012 election would be “the most racist” ever.
Schlafly invented the teleprompter over 50 years ago to help soap actors remember their lines but politicians have utilized the device to even greater advantage, to give the illusion they are presenting memorized speeches whereas every word is spelled out for them on their teleprompters.
ABCNews.com is quick to point out that, “In truth, every President since Dwight D. Eisenhower, excepting Nixon, has used one for major speeches in Congress.” (http://abcn.ws/eTy1pn) However, ABC omits another, more relevant, truth that no president in history has used his trusty teleprompters as extensively for major and minor speeches, to Congress and to virtually anyone else who was listening.
One has to maintain the façade of oratorical eloquence when such a façade is created for one. Barack Hussein Obama owes a deep debt to gratitude to “Hub” Schlafly.
Obama also owes a debt of gratitude to Tavis Smiley, the ethnocentric African-American PBS host who alone gives reason to de-fund PBS. Smiley was all exercised last year over Obama’s failure to exclusively focus on the needs of blacks in America. As Smiley dramatically resolved, “I was compelled to [call for 'a black agenda'] because of this debate” and called together a blue ribbon panel to discuss the matter.
He invited such black luminaries as the racial agitator Reverend Jesse Jackson, the racist Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, and radical black professor, Cornel West, among others to join the discussion: http://bit.ly/gr0xMf
Well, Smiley is back in the news, this time for his prediction, where else but on MSNBC, that we’re headed for a racist election. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4241)
Showing posts with label black agenda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black agenda. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Thursday, March 4, 2010
The Black Agenda
The Black Agenda
When Father Merrin spake the words, “I do compel you” unto the Demon in “The Exorcist,” said Demon became uncomfortable to say the least.
So too did PBS host Tavis Smiley feel a discomforting compulsion to react when he heard that some black leaders weren’t insisting that President Obama specifically focus on helping African-Americans.
“I was compelled to [call for ‘a black agenda’] because of this debate,” he said.
Now, compulsion is a pretty powerful impulse, an irresistible impetus to act, almost synonymous with an obsession and all because Smiley felt that black leaders were not seeking preferential treatment for one race over another.
To accomplish that “black agenda,” Smiley is organizing a public panel discussion and inviting his own version of America’s black leadership to debate its features and nuances.
Among the invitees are such black luminaries as the racial agitator Reverend Jesse Jackson, the racist Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, and radical black professor, Cornel West. Lesser known but equally venomous activists include Michael Eric Dyson and Julianne Malveaux: http://bit.ly/9y7YJy
Smiley failed to spell out the precise nature and details of his black agenda and presumably we will all be enlightened when the televised Great Discusssion takes place on March 20th.
Meanwhile, out on the Left Coast, 3 white Los Angeles teachers made their own statement about that black agenda. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1540)
When Father Merrin spake the words, “I do compel you” unto the Demon in “The Exorcist,” said Demon became uncomfortable to say the least.
So too did PBS host Tavis Smiley feel a discomforting compulsion to react when he heard that some black leaders weren’t insisting that President Obama specifically focus on helping African-Americans.
“I was compelled to [call for ‘a black agenda’] because of this debate,” he said.
Now, compulsion is a pretty powerful impulse, an irresistible impetus to act, almost synonymous with an obsession and all because Smiley felt that black leaders were not seeking preferential treatment for one race over another.
To accomplish that “black agenda,” Smiley is organizing a public panel discussion and inviting his own version of America’s black leadership to debate its features and nuances.
Among the invitees are such black luminaries as the racial agitator Reverend Jesse Jackson, the racist Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, and radical black professor, Cornel West. Lesser known but equally venomous activists include Michael Eric Dyson and Julianne Malveaux: http://bit.ly/9y7YJy
Smiley failed to spell out the precise nature and details of his black agenda and presumably we will all be enlightened when the televised Great Discusssion takes place on March 20th.
Meanwhile, out on the Left Coast, 3 white Los Angeles teachers made their own statement about that black agenda. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1540)
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