Comments on: My grandmother WAS the 4th of July http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2008/07/04/my-grandmother-was-the-4th-of-july/ Intellectual discussions on pressing issues Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:13:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: The Good Doctor http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2008/07/04/my-grandmother-was-the-4th-of-july/#comment-20148 The Good Doctor Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:31:40 +0000 http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2008/07/04/my-grandmother-was-the-4th-of-july/#comment-20148 I appreciate your visit. I believe the only place we disagree is in our assessment of Obama. He does understand what Renee did. He understands what it means to be an Omni-American, like my grandmother. He just chose not to communicate that understanding to Colorado voters. And he consistently chooses not to make that understanding a fundamental part of his campaign. He wants the rain without the thunder and lightning. I don't think he'll get it. I appreciate your visit. I believe the only place we disagree is in our assessment of Obama. He does understand what Renee did. He understands what it means to be an Omni-American, like my grandmother. He just chose not to communicate that understanding to Colorado voters. And he consistently chooses not to make that understanding a fundamental part of his campaign. He wants the rain without the thunder and lightning. I don’t think he’ll get it.

]]> By: makheru bradley http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2008/07/04/my-grandmother-was-the-4th-of-july/#comment-20147 makheru bradley Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:16:48 +0000 http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2008/07/04/my-grandmother-was-the-4th-of-july/#comment-20147 Bro. Spence have you seen this? Black Soldier Raped, Brutalized N Murdered Covered Up http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=59eO-JNtzhk Bro. Spence have you seen this?

Black Soldier Raped, Brutalized N Murdered Covered Up

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=59eO-JNtzhk

]]> By: makheru bradley http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2008/07/04/my-grandmother-was-the-4th-of-july/#comment-20146 makheru bradley Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:12:26 +0000 http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2008/07/04/my-grandmother-was-the-4th-of-july/#comment-20146 Well the crowd clapped, but I'm guessing that did not necessarily signal their approval of the lyrics. It was a clever protest, although as a purist I object to the singing of our anthem to the tune of a song a hypocritical as the Star-Spangled Banner. Nevertheless as Du Bois said, "one ever feels his two-ness...two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." In my opinion, Sister Renee Marie was just reflecting our “double consciousness:” I pulled a switcharoo on them" is what she told the Denver Post. And she explained that she was a child of the segregated South, and singing the song this way was her own artistic expression of the pain she feels at times from being a Black American. Ever the opportunist Barack Obama (now wearing his American flag) chimed in just show white folks that he really is a true patriot: Sen. Barack Obama said today that a jazz performer's decision to sing the "Black National Anthem" at Denver's State of the City speech this week was wrong. "Well, 'Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing' is a beautiful song that has been sung in African-American churches and other events for a very long time," the presumed Democratic presidential nominee told the Rocky in a telephone interview on his way to North Dakota. "We only have one National Anthem. And so, if she was asked to sing the National Anthem, she should have sung that." Obama’s response prompted the Field Negro to say: I swear if they had an under the bus toss in the Olympics, the U.S.A. would have to send the "O" man, because he would get a #*%@# gold medal. I think the real issue is that Obama has a problem with any form of Black assertiveness that challenges his profoundly distorted vision of America. Perhaps Obama has not “come over a way that with tears have been watered.” Perhaps he has not “come, treading his path through the blood of the slaughtered.” Perhaps Obama has not come “out from the gloomy past,” thus he has no reason to “till now we stand at last…True to our God, True to our native land.” Thus, Barack Obama has no basis for understanding what Renee Marie did. Well the crowd clapped, but I’m guessing that did not necessarily signal their approval of the lyrics.

It was a clever protest, although as a purist I object to the singing of our anthem to the tune of a song a hypocritical as the Star-Spangled Banner.

Nevertheless as Du Bois said, “one ever feels his two-ness…two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”

In my opinion, Sister Renee Marie was just reflecting our “double consciousness:”

I pulled a switcharoo on them” is what she told the Denver Post. And she explained that she was a child of the segregated South, and singing the song this way was her own artistic expression of the pain she feels at times from being a Black American.

Ever the opportunist Barack Obama (now wearing his American flag) chimed in just show white folks that he really is a true patriot:

Sen. Barack Obama said today that a jazz performer’s decision to sing the “Black National Anthem” at Denver’s State of the City speech this week was wrong.

“Well, ‘Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing’ is a beautiful song that has been sung in African-American churches and other events for a very long time,” the presumed Democratic presidential nominee told the Rocky in a telephone interview on his way to North Dakota. “We only have one National Anthem. And so, if she was asked to sing the National Anthem, she should have sung that.”

Obama’s response prompted the Field Negro to say:

I swear if they had an under the bus toss in the Olympics, the U.S.A. would have to send the “O” man, because he would get a #*%@# gold medal.

I think the real issue is that Obama has a problem with any form of Black assertiveness that challenges his profoundly distorted vision of America.

Perhaps Obama has not “come over a way that with tears have been watered.”

Perhaps he has not “come, treading his path through the blood of the slaughtered.”

Perhaps Obama has not come “out from the gloomy past,” thus he has no reason to “till now we stand at last…True to our God, True to our native land.”

Thus, Barack Obama has no basis for understanding what Renee Marie did.

]]> By: tootsie http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2008/07/04/my-grandmother-was-the-4th-of-july/#comment-20125 tootsie Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:01:25 +0000 http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2008/07/04/my-grandmother-was-the-4th-of-july/#comment-20125 Thanks Doc ,you touch my heart;God Bless Thanks Doc ,you touch my heart;God Bless

]]> By: Keith http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2008/07/04/my-grandmother-was-the-4th-of-july/#comment-20116 Keith Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:48:28 +0000 http://blacksmythe.com/blog/2008/07/04/my-grandmother-was-the-4th-of-july/#comment-20116 Hey Lester. Your grandmother sounds like a remarkable woman. I'm glad you introduced me to her. Happy 4th, and Happy Birthday to your little girl. Hey Lester.

Your grandmother sounds like a remarkable woman. I’m glad you introduced me to her.

Happy 4th, and Happy Birthday to your little girl.

]]>