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Ron Paul, Politics & The Revocation of One's Black Card

Woke up this morning and looked in the mirror and what a surprise I am still black. Which was not a guarantee after this past weekend where I engaged in several conversations regarding supporting Obama and the Democratic Party and not doing so would lead to a revocation of my black card.

Apparently engaging in a conversation about some of the positions held by Ron Paul, the Libertarian party, and his attendance at the GOP debate in Ames. Iowa,  including comments he made while there are grounds for having one’s black card suspended and or revoked.  This is quite interesting because actually his supporters have been better behaved in their discussions than the other two parties supporters combined.

Yes I voted for Obama in 2008 I worked his campaign and volunteered and raised funds as I am sure many did.  In 2008 I had a full time job with benefits, my own place in the city that never sleeps and was poised to do some great things.

Flash forward to now – no longer have the full time job or the benefits (that’s insurance for the slow folks), had to move in with my mother while attending school full time, which caused me to have to relocate to a notorious “Red State”, and am still poised to do great things but that is IN SPITE of the policies that have been implemented since Obama took office

Don’t get me I still have much respect for his point of view and what he would LIKE to accomplish while in office I just seriously question his ability to accomplish much given the political climate that exists not only in Washington DC but in this country right now in general . His qualifications have not  changed but  my questions about his candidacy have little to do with what he Can or will do as opposed to what he will be ALLOWED to do or can MANAGE to do.

 

This point could not be brought home better than the recent debacle with the debt ceiling. There are people who are willing to destroy the economy of this country rather than to work with the president.  The politics that were at play with regards to the budget and the total lack of consideration for those who aren’t WEALTHY already, or politically connected was not only business as usual in Washington, but allowed for those who have an agenda that if implemented would send us back to 1863.

So in discussing the GOP debates and in particular some of the statements made by Ron Paul, I have had to listen to conversations that included the caveat that merely considering anything other than voting for Obama again in 2012 would be tantamount to high treason and would earn me a “Traitor to your Race” badge.

No one was prouder nor more understanding of the significance of electing the first person of color to the highest office in this country.  The whole scenario was poignantly brought home for me when my 90+ year old grandmother who sharecropped and is the descendant of slaves went to cast her vote for Barack Obama. There is NOTHING that can replace the expression on her face when it was announced that he had won the election.

However all those issues aside going into a second term the realities of the last few years hit home like Thor’s magic hammer.  My mother is retired and yes my grandmother at 99 is still around.  Both living on social security and needing to use Medicare to survive.

I, as a full time college student am being swamped under student loans that I have to find a way to repay when I matriculate.  It is right now next to impossible to find any employment in my area with a living wage – which by the way I am in a “At Will” work state which means even if you found a job they can fire you without cause at any given moment

I have not as of yet made a decision as to whom I will vote for in 2012  I will as I always have carefully consider ALL candidates, their record and what policies they put forth for this country . I also will have to consider how feasible it will be for the policies that they espouse to be implemented in the current environment that exists in Washington

Carefully considering all these things I will make my decision with regards to who I will vote for In the meantime I might hang out with the Libertarians for a hot minute (personal responsibility and individual liberty – with limited government involvement- sound familiar?)

.   In the end on the morning after Election Day hopefully I will still be black or at least keep the nice shade of mocha brown I have been sporting for most of my life.

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Published on: August 15, 2011

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  • Jonne Austin

    Ron Paul is something else.  He makes some excellent points and I agree with some of them.  I like his attitude on certain things.  However, his family’s history with racist groups is problematic.  Even so, that’s not what has put Paul off the table for me (and I would say most Libertarians).  Their views on government are too idealistic and not based in reality; they lack gravitas.  I will get flamed for this, but so be it.  Their answers are far too shortsighted and ignorant of this country’s modus operandi for the last few centuries.  They also rely on the notion that the country is a democracy when it’s not.  Furthermore saying less government is disingenous because we all know that the accurate statement would be “less corporation(s)”.  I agree with looking at all of the candidates, but this means going outside of Repub, Dem and even Libertarian (which tends to be a caveat to most Repubs these days)….

  • Anonymous

    I remember when I first heard about Ron Paul way back in 2008. One brother was practically his secret campaign manager, posting youtube videos and everything. 

    Paul has a curious history that definitely can be used by detractors as fuel against him, and his political ideas are way too idyllic to be realistically achieved in my opinion. That doesn’t make Obama any better though. 

  • http://primaldata.blogspot.com/ PRIMALDATA

    The problem with Ron Paul is simple:he runs a popularity contest not a campaign. Yes in truth SOME of politics is a popularity contest, but the rest is being able to grab not just people who like you, but people who may not like you, agree with your policies, or even see your side as a viable way forward but are drawn to your character and personality regardless. Two people who did that quite well were Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, the sucked people who normally would have treated the letter behind their names like the black guy dating their daughter(yeah act like I’m lieing) and voted for him anyway. Clinton pulled some normally red states blue and Reagan pulled some normally blue states red.  Both were smacked down in their mid term elections and both learned the LEADERSHIP role afterwards.

    So as much as we hear that :this has never happened before, it has, actually it happens quite often. For some odd strange reason we Americans in the last 40 years actually love political theater. Now yes Republicans seemed to not only be willing to let the country go to hell in a hand basket to get the black guy out of the white house they are also willing to DEFY RONALD REAGAN! Reagan was king of the “to hell with the deficit we have a country to run” Club, not only that but he demanded republicans not play games with the deficit.

    As for Obama, lets be real here as much as we want him to you cannot be the Angry Black Guy EVER when you are the first black man in an office, as the first black presidential nominee he was successful. But as you have seen with how he is portrayed, the lack of acceptance he has received from the other side, and the number of shots he and we have taken because “well now it’s fair game” even if he is a 1 term president he must remain forever cool. History shows that when our first is anything but humble, kind and stoic the next has to wait a long time to get another opportunity. To make matters worse, Obama has EVERY minority on his back, seriously we are here talking about the lack of leadership on the presidents part when in 2009 and 2010 his main enemy were democrats trying to protect themselves from SUPPOSEDLY being punished for siding with the president on policies that wouldn’t be accepted by the American people. 

    Those idiots fell for that tripe and most of their seats have Republicans or tea party members occupying them now, why because they had control of ALL 3 houses of the US government and instead of working together to get our agenda across what they did was decide that they were gonna play political games within the party AND LOST. Most of the Blue Dog democrats got kicked out of office in 2010. So yes I agree that the president could have been more forceful but the party as a whole should have kept it’s eye on the prize better.

    Ron Paul’s ideas about this country hit both sides of the spectrum, some of them are okay some of them seem to ignore exactly who we are as a country and where we want to go. It’s nice to be a strict constitutionalist, but the constitution was made to be malleable if you cannot allow your views to be so then unfortunately you are not what this country needs.