Mixed-Racial Presidential Candidate Downplays His White Heritage So He Can Play The Race Card, Dishonoring Martin Luther King
May I remind my black brothers and sisters of the words of the honorable Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- words I heard as a child of that era that helped form the person I am today, with hopes and dreams of equality for all:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
I say to you and to citizens of all races in our wonderful country, please do not take the enormous step backwards to vote for someone because of their race. We must open our minds and welcome full and thorough vetting of our candidates, especially of their character. Otherwise, you dishonor the life of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It was clear to me from the beginning that Barack Obama intended to use the race card to win his bid for the Presidency. And don't think for one moment I am racist in saying this. No my friends, nearly 80% of the people who are helped from my charitable efforts are African or African-American. One third of my income from 2007 went to charity, and I am making far less than the average American these days. I write this because I simply cannot tolerate this agenda to paint Black America as a victim and to paint White America as racist -- in order to put Barack Obama into the White House.
The first time that the real ugliness of racism confronted me directly was when I was planning my sweet sixteen birthday sleepover. I was told that I could invite all of the girls from my class, which were about 35. I made out invitations and handed them to each one. One of the invitations went to a 15 year old black girl. As R.S.V.P.s started to arrive, my stepmother opened them to keep track so we could budget for the party favors and food. One evening, she came up to my room and sat down on my bed, with an R.S.V.P. in her hand and told me point blank, "We cannot have this girl at the party. You will have to uninvite her and just explain to her that we have to limit how many girls can stay over." My father joined in to state point blank that "we cannot have blacks in this house." I should have known that. There will be no party otherwise.
So, I cancelled the entire event.
Let's get the facts straight about who is injecting race into this election process, and stop playing with words to divide this nation.
- Barack Obama's father was African and his mother was white. He hardly knew his father, and was raised by his white mother and then her white parents. They are not here or available to tell their story, so we only get his stories, like the one about his white grandmother's prejudices against black men on the street.
- Barack Obama has decided to represent himself as an African-American, even though he is only half African-American. If he represented himself as a mixed-racial American, we would not need this discussion because he would not have made it this far. Where I grew up, the black community had a harder time accepting mixed-racial kids than the white community did. In Los Angeles California during the 80's, I had a very good friend who was white, who married a black man, and their two children who were light-skinned with black features and hair were shunned.
- In Barack Obama's book, "Dreams" he stated that he decided to head to Chicago to organize black folks.
- Over 90% of blacks in this country are supporting Barack Obama. That is a strong indication that many have made a decision based on race. (So I hope they reconsider the words of MLK posted at the beginning of this article.)
- The black community rallied behind Obama early on, including the black churches, who as 501(c) tax-exempt organizations, are suppose to be non-political. I attended an African Methodist Episcopalian (A.M.E.) church on Martin Luther King's Birthday in South Carolina this year, one of two A.M.E. churches I visited that week during the Democratic Debate and Caucus. The church in Little River had visitors from out of state speaking to them on why they must vote for Barack Obama. They referred to him as The New Prophet sent from God to lead the people to the promise land. They said, just like Martin, our new Prophet should not be judged for his experience or past, but only viewed as a messenger from God whom we must follow. The pamphlet they gave out had this quote from MLK:
"The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears;
The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt."This quote was the prominent remark in an hour and a half-long program that was to honor the remarkable life of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I am sorry to tell you, but in 2008 as a "white" woman in America, I have no idea what guilt is being referenced here. And if there are black folks out there today who harbor a fear of white folks to the point that it keeps them from being a fully functional member of our society, you need to get over it.
Yes, racism has raised its ugly head in 2008 during this campaign. It was initially raised by Barack Obama and continues to be raised by him and his followers any time someone criticizes him or questions his background and experience. Barack Obama likes to hit the campaign trail and point out these criticisms as "Okey-doke." He carefully explains this is the black community code word for white folks using code words to discriminate against blacks. His continued racial divisiveness, not just in his words and those of his supporters and campaign staff, but also in his actions, has caused people like me for the first time in my life to think in terms of black and white.
And make no mistake about it -- he has purposefully rallied the black community to get him in the White House. During this campaign, he paid ACORN $800,000 to drag poor blacks from the street to register to vote, and many cases have been reported and videotaped that they were not just helping them to vote, but to vote for Obama.
Barack Obama has been endorsed by some of the most unsavory of the black community, including the New Black Panthers and Louis Farrakhan, to name a few:
Note: The original AP news release on the Farrakhan endorsement has been deleted. The blog about the New Black Panthers endorsement has links to the original endorsement on the Obama campaign Website and captured a screenshot before that, too, was removed from public access.
Here is video from a trip Barack Obama made to campaign for his cousin, Odinga of Kenya, also known as the "Butcher of Kenya" -- an election that Odinga lost.
Some Kenyans I know believe Barack Obama was born in Kenya, which has been reported to have been claimed by his Kenyan grandmother. From the video above, they sure seem to know who he is. I fear that most voters in this country don't know the real Barack Obama. An attorney, a Democratic leader in our country, is using the court system to find out.
So who will Barack Obama be working for, should he be elected in the White House? Who will he add to his group of insiders? Who will he owe favors to for putting him in the highest position of the free world? Who will be sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom?
I don't think he cares about me. He wants to put me in a "class" so he can conduct class warfare, taxing the "rich" and giving to the poor.
I have found myself needing to think about race more often now, rethinking my choice of words because some may consider them racial, such as uppity, a word I use to describe snooty people. But who I am is unchanged by this attempt to racially divide our country, and I will continue to care for ALL AMERICANS and persons around the world without consideration of their race. That is my record....but that is not the record of Barack Obama.
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How Democratic Narrow-mindedness and Racism led to 9/11
I read this with fascination because it reminded me of my year-long struggle to prevent 9/11 and the attacks which nearly occurred in August 2006. How did race play a role in 9/11 and in my efforts to stop the attacks?
One important role of government is to protect our borders from overseas attackers many of whom may be motivated by racial animosity or a desire to get even as a result of a perceived injustice.
As such, I viewed the stalking and battery of myself at Awtec in 1999 - a Japanese car navigation company - and the subsequent federal case I brought against Awtec - as an oppurtunity to sound the alarm against likely perpetrators of attacks against Americans.
My seven-year experience living in Japan had convinced me that we were failing to provide adequate airport security to stop a catastrophic attack by the most likely plotters - Islamic Bojinka plotters led by Ramsi Yousef and uncle Khalid Sheik Mohammed. When they killed Ikegami-san by bombing a Phillipines flight over Japan in 1995 and the 12-14 plane bojinka plot was revealed by Philippine police, I knew this was a historic oppurtunity, a turning point where America MUST step up not only to protect herself but her former enemy and new partner, Japan. One would have thought a thorough round-up would have been in order after this plot foiling, especially after the murder of a Japanese translator and the murder of several Japanese tourists in Egypt and elsewhere. But. shockingly, that never happened.
As I followed the news closely, my heart sunk when I learned only three plotters had been caught and tried in New York, leaving KSM and others free to regroup and try once again. I called the US embassy to complain but I failed to get through. The key to my understanding of our wrong turn in policy - the bojinka reponse error - was a boyhood hero, Astronaut -turned-Senator, Harrison Schmittt. Schmitt helped me learn not to think in terms of political parties and to understand the importance of opening our hearts and minds to the thinking of the other side. You see, Schmitt, a Republican when I was a Democrat, had the courage to stand up and call for condemning the Soviets for shooting down a civilian airliner in 1978. But the Carter Administration and most in her camp were not even interested in making a ripple of a protest at a time when they should have been making waves of condemnation. Keep in mind my grandfather was a personal friend of Jimmy Carter and I supported the Democrats, but at the age of 18 when another Soviet attack on an airliner occured in '83, I was beginning to question everything and form my own ideas about things.
In my research at UH, I uncovered some amazing dialogue in the pages of the Congressional Record. Schmitt argued that we should not sweep this '78 incident under the rug simply because the victims were not American, nor the carrier American, nor because only two were killed. The Soviets had used deadly force against over a hundred people. That most survived should not be reason to ignore the crime. Three times Schmitt stood up, and three times he was batted down for lack of Foreign Relations Committee approval. A handful of wise Senators had stood with Schmitt but ultimately they were defeated. We all know the result. Five years later, the same thing happened again, only this time, all 269 passenger were murdered and guess what? The Soviets reminded America in a rare conference that she had acted no differently in 1983 than she did in 1978, when there had been no US condemnation.
In 1999 I was stalked and battered at a Japanese GPS navigation company as I made recommendations to use our technology to stop carjackings and hijackings.
It gave me nightmares knowing that any group wishing to cause harm to America or wishing to lead America to war could do so without hardly lifting a finger. All they needed to do was give a nod to policies which undermined our airport security. Legal "geniuses", in the name of social good, decided to apply the same model to prevent discrmination at nightclubs for use in airport screening. The result was the airlines were foot-dragging because of the perceived cost of implement screening proceedures that must be followed for EVERY passenger no matter what age, sex, religion, handicap, or nationality. Security at a nightclub to dance the night away, and security for entering an airplane that terrorists have long-sought to turn into a weapon of mass destruction should naturally be approached differently. But to the Far Left, there is no difference. And to the Neocons, the Left's foolishness merely served as a useful tool for their own dreams of a world transformed following disaster.
I was in the Lion's den during this year, seeing firsthand what lengths that lawyers would go to demonize "whitey" while painting a sorrowful and sympathetic portrait of racism against whites as justified, as misunderstood acts of kindness or perhaps homosexual love? It cannot be a suprise that one of the most ardent pleas to reverse the Bojinka Response Error and stop 9/11 came from a witness to the legal sabotage our Justice system.
Frightfully sickening and mind-numbing are the only words I can find to describe what Awtec - Epstein, Becker, and Green - as well as Sidley, Bell, and Daroll were engaged in the name of working a case. In other Age, it would be called Treason, pure and simple. But to this day, they have gotten away with their thievery because nobody has held them accountable for their actions. To a very large extent both parties are in need of reform, but from what I have seen, John McCain stands out as the man most ready to lead the country out of this division and put the compassion back in conservatism.
I have written Senator McCain about the Bojinka Response Error and my pleas to stop the plot prior to 9/11. He expressed astonishment over this matter and promised to forward the information to the relevant people. But even John McCain has limits over what he can do when it comes to the courts and judges who can never be fired. I think it's up to us to help reform-minded leaders like John McCain get elected in order to prevent a repeat of the disastrous policies leading to 9/11.
I left America a Democrat and I came back an American. By that I mean that I took Senator Harrison Schmitt's wisdom to heart, to not let politics stand in the way of helping your fellow man when he's in trouble no matter what his nationality or race or political affiliation are. We are all on this boat together. I believe my pleas to stop 9/11 were sucked into these manufactured cracks which divide us in to camps, Repubican vs Democrat, Liberal v Conservative and so on down the line.
At my highest point in Japan my brother and I were performing at a club to adoring fans crowding the stage - including my future wife - when a jealous man - a Japanese friend - began screaming, "Give us candy! Give us candy!" in mockery of the adoring Japanese who took candy from US troops at the end of the war. He apologized later to my brother and confessed his jealousy matter-of-factly. At my lowest point in Japan, I was nearly beaten to death and suffered a seizure weeks after the beating. On the way to work with a bandage around my head a Japanese boy on a bus could sense I was not doing very well - and sensing this, he offered me a piece of candy.
It is through these small acts of kindness that we learn and grow and push ourselves to go further . Recognizing the inherent good and worth of every human being, provides the motivation for stopping terrorism - it is the enemy of racism - and the life-blood of freedom. Progress in this area can either be advanced by the courts through magnanimity or quashed through narrow-mindedness.
As I strongly suspected, the Radical Fundamentalist Unit of the FBI needed my help before 9/11. The Bojinka Response error was wreaking havoc at the FBI. They were at odds with the FISA court after the court refused to accept wiretap applications from one of her agents. There were too many errors in the applications, the judges claimed. All the wiretaps in the world would do no good unless there were adequate translators and unless there were plans to intervene BEFORE disaster struck. The feud was a symptom of a larger problem involving the tepid bojinka plot response. Clearly we can see in Philip Zelikow's Catastrophic Terrorism that the willpower to stop the attackers was by design being set aside and the Radical Islamic Unit was feeling left out in the cold and not being given the green light to round up suspects PRIOR to a disaster. The frustration was mounting and all the judges could do is ban an agent from entering their elevated presence instead of doing what all good jurists should do, and with an open mind, try to get to the heart of the matter.
Peace,
Blake Austin
John McCain 2008