You know, I was in the ER, and my personal physician said to me, “You’re for Obama, because he’s a black man.” Now my physician is a woman, who has cared for me for 20 years. This is a woman, who came to my house, on her day off, to treat my mother when she was dying. This is a woman, who is not only my physician, but she is my friend, and has been for a long time. She is an intelligent woman, although this comment certainly did not reflect that. How can that be? I bet you’ve experienced similar.
I have dear friends that I watch desperately searching for excuses not to support Obama, and I know why, because he’s black. They do not even realize it consciously. I had another friend, a woman, who I consider more of a sister to me than my consanguine sister, say, “Isn’t there a part of you that just wants Obama to get it because he’s a black man?”
First, Obama is half-white, yet because his skin is darker than most white people, he becomes black. Why, because we live in harsh, anti-black pigmentocracy. Personally, there’s a part of me that wishes America was not a Teutonophile Nation. Personally, I take that as an affront.
Second, why is it that every Black person that is supporting Obama, is accused of doing so because he is black? Condaleeza Rice is black, would you vote for her? I’m black, would you vote for me–of course not. People are on the Obama train for the same reason they got on the Kennedy train—because change needs to come. Because deep down inside, at the end of the day, when its all said and done, we love America, because we are America.
That’s what so tragically sad about Hillary Clinton. Once upon a time, I was a Hillary Clinton supporter. Of course, that was long before I knew who Obama was and what he stood for. The funny thing is, all of my white feminist friends, said the same thing to me, when I was a Hillary supporter… “not this woman.”
Over the past two months, the actions and words of Hillary Clinton have gone from being merely disappointing to downright disgusting. I’ve watched Senator Clinton and her husband play this game of appealing to the worst side of white people, and encouraging racial fear and hatred. She hurls the name “Farrakhan” out of nowhere to scare white people, pure and simple. Of course, Obama has no connection to Farrakhan. “You cannot choose your relatives, but you can choose your minister,” she said.
How sad it is to find out that Senator Clinton and her husband are more concerned about their personal legacy than America, or their child. The tragedy is that Hillary Clinton, really did, devote much of her life to good causes and good deeds. It is very sad to see her throwing it all away, because she cannot accept the fact that she is not going to get to be the first woman president.
How sad for a country that wanted to see the first woman elected to the White House. I understand that, I have a sister, I have nieces, I have goddaughters. I am a feminist. I know, there can be no free men, until women are free. I also know, they day will come when America will have a female president, probably 2016, the current governor of Kansas.
What we are witnessing is not just a candidate. We are witnessing a profound, massive, public, movement for change. Obama is an exceptional man, but the Obama movement is the train we need to be on. What’s going on is bigger than him at this point, and that’s a good thing for the country, because, when he wins in November, that Obama movement is going to have to stay alert and active. Corporate America is not going to give up their strangle hold on the American government, and the American people, just because we have a good president. President Obama is going to need a nation of millions to stand behind him.
Finally, I want to say a word about the basic decency I have seen in Mr. Obama. Mrs. Clinton continues to throw the Reverend Wright up in Obama’s face as part of her mission to keep stoking the fears of White America. Yet, when she and her husband were having marital difficulties regarding Monica Lewinsky–who did she and Bill bring to the White House for ’spiritual counseling?’ THE REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT! Obama will not throw that at her, because it is not the decent thing to do. It simply is not right. She has been through enough hurt, and so he remains silent and takes the mud she throws in his face. We need a man like this to lead our nation. You cannot be a decent president, if you are not a decent human being. That’s why the crowds who come to see him are so large. That’s why he’ll take us down that high road, as opposed to lead us to a pyrrhic victory.
So no, my trusted physician and friend, it is not about the color of his skin, but the content of his character. Now haven’t I heard that some place before? Be black go blue!
–Dr. Billy G
