President Barack Obama Discovers Green-Gold in Memphis

For thousands of years Arabs walked deserts not knowing what lays underneath their feet would make the world kneel before them to have.   They lived as poor beggars having only tourist attractions as their only international industry; thereby, put aside in world commerce as backward with no real future, disrespected by the west as ignorant and useless.  And then, oil was discovered; black gold underneath their feet.  The whole continent became the most important place in the world.  People who were seen as nobodies are now making decisions that bring both good and bad times to people around the world.  While in Memphis, President Barack Obama discovers green-gold, Tennessee “Intel”.

Memphis, the city where dead kings are buried; is now, the city where life is rushing forth.  For a long time Memphis’s youth has rocked the world; they have displayed great talents in almost every way imaginable but still have gone unnoticed until now.  They have put their city on top of the world by constantly appearing in the top 5 of every national entertainment contest like American Idol, Miss Black Memphis competing in Miss America contests; top athletes from University of Memphis basketball and football teams who have become top pro athletes, and now, urban intellectuals: Thinkers.  At the same time, for years, Memphis’s youths have been overlooked as violent, disrespectful, of no good to their city, and trouble makers.  They’re thrown into jails and prisons by the thousands, as law enforcement and prosecutors labels them as gangsters, killers, and crack-heads.

As Booker T. Washington won the White House’s “Race to Top” competition their victory speaks volumes to urban children everywhere.  They’re discounted as urban underclass; it took a President to discover that’s far from the truth.  BTW represents the child next door; any of them could have informed the President and brought greatness to their city.

In addition, Memphis City School system is a beach-head for another contest: Political war. The entire caucus of Tennessee’s Republicans joined in with Senator Mark Norris (R) Collierville; to keep school segregation alive in Tennessee.  Their heavy-handed approach to prevent a unified Memphis and Shelby County schools is short of unthinkable.  The Republican Party drew a line in sand last year and declared war on urban students; as they fight in court to keep them apart.  Citizens of Memphis and Shelby County have hired top rated lawyers to prosecute this education war by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for lawyers to just say, no.  Perhaps, the President seized an opportunity in historic fashion by understanding that Tennessee Republicans are on the other side of history in their school segregation battle.  The President made it clear that he wants “No Child left Behind” replaced with “Race to The Top”.  This signals a war between Republicans and Democrats on what America’s education would look like in the future.

Whenever a President speaks on an issue, the world changes; the question is: To what?  It’s no sudden strategy of the President and the Democratic Party that BTW is permanently on the political radar screen.

Black Memphis "Finger Pointing" Administrators a Greater Problem

MATA and CA must take full responsibility for their poor description of Memphis citizens who uses this poorly operated trolley system.  Their public display of Memphis citizens who patronize bus and trolley system is below what would ordinarily be expected in other large cities.  Like most black administrators; they’re busy as bees uncovering any and all suspicious activities of other blacks; true or false.  However, that’s not apart of their job description.  Allison Burton and the CA should be overactive in assisting those who were hurt and who might have ridden as out-of-town visitors; instead of quoting and writing “hearsay” in the morning paper.

Most articles are “down written” intentionally to depict black citizens as thugs, criminals, and thieves.  While everybody else is depicted as citizens one most likely would want to move next door too.  The truth is: While blacks are trapped into a violent life style, they’re not as violent as other people would be living under the same situation.  There’re very few nations where large populations of minorities who’re poor, undereducated, with almost no commercial opportunities, in extremely poor health, and in dept poverty who’re equal to or less violent than black Americans.  Black Americans overwhelmingly do the right things.

It’s time to put the truth on the table; if whites who’re charged with racial insensitive must attend sensitivity classes then, it’s more important that blacks who’re insensitive toward other blacks should attend the same classes.  There’s a quiet and unknown fact that’s growing within “black culture”; separating of black professionals from the general black population thereby, creating another class of blacks who view other blacks as despicable, low-class freaks who only want to cheat their way through life.  In other words, this class of blacks has the same views as their white racist counterparts.  Each hasn’t any regard for the struggles and disadvantages imposed upon millions of black people even as this piece is written.

The black “super class” feels their superiority is evidence that any black person could have achieved success if they “low blacks” would do as they have done.  Again, this thinking has no regard for past and present disadvantages suffered by millions of black people in America.  Nevertheless, a quiet discovery is made: Blacks are unequal and many black professionals are racist; with the exact mindset as white racist.  One small difference exists within the racist black mindset; they want black American to accept, act, and do as they do; become “accepted” black people, and give-up on pioneering what would become liberated Americans with their own set of values, contributing to the American way of life.  In reality, these black professionals are no more than three weeks pay from returning to their black “low class” status.