The Read, Right, and True

I am a conservative, a Marylander, and American. I am also black. For some reason the assumption among liberals is that not only should I vote Democrat, but I should vote for Senator Obama because he is black. My co-workers have asked me if I am black and then proceed to tell me that I should vote for Obama for that reason. My own roommate took my distaste for both presidential candidates and said that I should vote for Senator Obama because he is black. I have been called an Oreo and many have attempted to create guilt within me.

This is not an isolated phenomenon, but a systemic problem of assuming that only “Uncle Sugar”, as my father so lovingly refers to our National Government, is on the side of the black man. That any attempt to drive back the hydra of big government and encourage the black man to stand as a man is racist. When Michael Steele ran for the Senate, he was pelted with Oreos and was called an Uncle Tom. Our Secretary of State has faced similar treatment in the form of political cartoons and some commentators have assumed that becuse her world view does not match their own, then she must be against the black community. I am not saying all liberals fall into this category, I have meet one or tow that do not carry the racecard as the first line of defense against my conservatism. But there are too many of them. Too many who implicitly or explicitly call black conservatives racist while staying silent while this Klan’s-man is still in the senate. A man who opposed Cabinet and Judical Nomenies who happend to be black. I would like to close this first post with the following quote from Frederick Douglass:

“All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! If you see him on his way to school, let him alone, don’t disturb him! If you see him going to the dinner table at a hotel, let him go! If you see him going to the ballot- box, let him alone, don’t disturb him! [Applause.] If you see him going into a work-shop, just let him alone,–your interference is doing him a positive injury.”