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Just Because the President Is Black
Just Because the President Is Black
Just Because the President Is Black
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The sole purpose of writing this book is to shake Americans out of their stupor and into the greatness they keep swearing this country is all about. Americans are 100% responsible for where we are now and where we will be in the future. The power is in our hands but not as long as we allow ourselves to stay divided. President Obama is not the sole reason for our division but because of racism, he is a major factor. This is a book explaining the manipulation of the public. The American public keeps allowing the wealthy minority to divide them making them co-conspirators in their own demise. The election of this black President makes Americans easy pickings. Hopefully, at the end of this book, America will finally be motivated to recognize and get past their subconscious racism, which makes us especially vulnerable to any type of divisive manipulation. Hopefully, we can stop dividing and unify for our own good.
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Release dateJun 7, 2011
ISBN9781426964497
Just Because the President Is Black
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Miss Mary

Mary Marks is a college graduate who has lived, worked, and retired observing the political habits of Americans. She is a resident of Miami, Florida. She has lived through segregation, integration, and the first black president. She has decided to share her wisdom with the world. She is a baby boomer with time on her hands.

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    Just Because the President Is Black - Miss Mary

    Forward

    This book is about President Obama’s first two years in office. It’s also about Americans being 100%, not 30% or 50%, but 100% responsible for where this country is and where this country will be in the future. Let me say this another way, a sensible way. We, the American people, are at fault. We are the captains of our ship. We have made and continue to make most of our problems and we keep perpetuating those problems by allowing misinformation to keep us divided. We expect a democracy to work by itself. However, we make very poor choices about the politicians who guard our democracy. We feel that all we have to do is vote. We ignore what is said to us and then react with silly choices. Seriously, that’s not sensible, and I know sensible.

    Now, having made my opening statements, people will wonder why I presume to think that I can tell them anything. Well, it’s really very simple. It’s because I am an old black woman. Old black women are always the be all and end all, which is an idiom meaning the quintessential or all important element. Look at William Young’s The Shack, God was an old black woman. Look at Stephen King’s The Stand, the savior of the world, after a virus killed most of the world, was an old black woman. Look at The Matrix. Who did the One go to? He was guided by an old black woman. So there we have it. I am an authority and when I say that Americans have caused every event in their lives, I know of what I speak because I am an old black woman.

    Nobody can ever know America like black women because as much as I hate to admit it, we tend to be at the very bottom of every totem pole. See, whites like to put black men at the bottom of the totem pole, and of course because black men are males, they operate on the premises that all women are inferior to men. So, black men put black women beneath them, thus we become the bottom of the totem pole. I like to think of our bottommost as being the base not the bottom and since this is my book written with my wisdom, I will put black women in the most positive light possible.

    This is a book about American’s failure to understand how they are single-handedly destroying that which they claim they love the most, their democracy. A democracy is defined, according to Dictionary.com, as a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people, the majority. The majority must make decisions for everyone. No democracy can survive extreme divisiveness and remain a democracy. No democracy can live with constant misinformation and remain a democracy. A democracy is an everyday process. Everything that happens in that democracy must be closely watched.

    This will be an informative book that will force Americans to review their actions in hopes that they will not keep going down the same predictable path over and over again. This book is also to remind the majority that we are a diverse group of people who populate the same little swatch of land and we must all work together so that all Americans can live and prosper.

    Blacks and whites rarely see issues through the same looking glass. Unless we try to understand where we are all coming from, then we can plan on another century of divisiveness. Now I cannot speak for whites, but I sure can speak for blacks, only in the perception of what happens and why it happens to this new Black President. What President Obama will go through will be pretty much what all blacks go through when they are the very first in a job that has been off limits to anyone who is not white.

    So now that we are in the proper mind frame and understand our part in this story, lets start this book. I will give suggestions and make everyone smile at my witticism. Now I just have to add a footnote to everything that I have said and to everything I am about to say in this book. This is a book about my opinion and mine alone. I have plenty of real footnotes but remember I get opinions that coincide with my opinion, which is the sensible opinion. Anyone can go to GOOGLE, which is where I found my footnotes, and get any opinion they would like. I am giving everyone the sensible opinion that has been proven to be the hallmark of old black women. Thank you.

    A Little Something

    Before I can tell the tale of President Obama’s presidency, I must present a short story that will explain how this first Black President will be treated.

    There was a talented young woman in a security job and she was top notch when it came to solving problems. As a matter of fact, when she first started her job, she was able to find and fix security problems with most of her customers. The first group of customers was impressed because, for the first time, they passed their security inspections. The young woman had great success with her customers. Her bosses decided that since she was so good, they would move her to more difficult customers, not to punish her success, but to make the other customers better. Ha Ha, that’s a good one. Anyway, the difficult customers did not want to improve because most were incompetent and able to slide by for years. This talented young woman took her time and emailed, called, and worked very hard to correct the problems, but to no avail, the difficult customer worked against her. They made every problem more difficult. When that did not work, they complained that the young woman had an attitude and was very condescending. Those difficult customers had no idea that when this talented young woman was emailing them, she included the bosses. Everyone knew about the difficult customers. Those customers kept trying to discredit the young woman with as much misinformation as possible. They were even able to get some of the young woman’s co-workers, who were jealous of her success, to also say that she had a lot of attitude. When the bosses heard the rumors, they went to the difficult customers and told them to get their act together or plan on finding another job. Ha Ha, I was just kidding. Of course, the bosses did no such thing. They relegated the talented young woman to the basement doing standards and things of that sort that just wasted her talent. The difficult customers accomplished their objective by getting rid of the one person who could help them pass their security inspections. So, those difficult customers spent many years below standard and never passed their inspections. The bosses sent more people to try and help, but most just left the job because of the customer’s difficult, inflexible, and unchanging attitude.

    Okay, so what is my point? When someone wants to make changes, it upsets a lot of people who may not benefit financially if changes occur, or those changes could require people to actually perform their jobs. Those changes could also just let others know of their incompetency. There are reasons that the status quo stays the status quo. The bosses, like people in power, can help with any change if they want to but since those bosses are a part of the problem, they will not help make the necessary changes. For some reason, new people and new ideas are never welcomed by the old establishment. That is probably why the old establishment stays the old establishment, and why this country is losing it’s advantage over the rest of the world.

    When this new President was running for office, he promised to make changes and immediately the establishment went into operational mode along with a lot of misinformation. As I will say again and again, the greatest destroyers of the majority are misrepresentation of events, lies, innuendos, and misinformation. Take your pick, they all result in the majority dividing itself. All of this misinformation will always come from the people who do not want any type of change. No one person can make governmental changes. It takes the majority standing firm and united. The majority must stay focused in order to decipher and ignore the lies and innuendos that will distract and divide them. Historically, that has not happened and I do not see any indication that it will, but I keep hoping.

    The mid-term elections proved my point to a tee. After only one year and eleven months, the misinformation caused the American public to believe the lies, just like the difficult customers caused the young woman’s reassignment. Who won with the difficult customers? Certainly not the customers, who never adequately accomplished their inspections, and definitely not the talented young woman. Who will win with the misinformation and lies? Certainly not the American public, who will continue supporting the establishment which caused the recession, and definitely not the talented young black man who is trying to make changes for the American public. How will any of this end? I do not know because I am only here to tell the tale and explain the lies and innuendos the only way a sensible black woman would be able to understand. There will be a lot of repetition because everyone knows that old people repeat themselves a lot to make their point and I will be no exception to the rule. So let’s begin President Obama’s story.

    I’m a Know It All

    So what in the world makes me the one to tell the truth of President Obama’s story? I have already established that I am an African American senior citizen, which means that I have seen America as she truly has been, not as many White Americans have hoped that she has been. I am wise, at least that is the supposed advantage of being a senior citizen. Throw in African American also, and I can only say, WOW! Those are the things of which legends are made.

    Now as a side note, I have to say, I appreciated older Americans having improved their status and being upgraded to senior citizens. However, no group of people have had as many upgrades and name changes as my people. We have been called colored, negro, Black, and African American, and those are the names that are mentionable. We all know there are more colorful and degrading names that I do not care to mention. As a member of all of these groups, I have had plenty of time to be very observant, because believe it or not, this country has been all about us since the moment we were kidnapped and brought to these shores. No way, you say, but I say, it’s been all about us. At least as long as I have been around, and I was here before television, well at least affordable television.

    Since slavery, America has worked hard to prove that their idea of our inferiority is accurate. We have been given poorly endowed schools to keep us uneducated. We have been given neighborhoods with no amenities so that we stayed in ghettos without hope. We have even been given inferior foods in our area supermarkets so that we stay unhealthy. We are constantly presented as inferior so that our self-esteem stays as low as possible. As a recipient of all of these amazing gifts from America, I have often wondered why Americans have worked so hard to keep us on the bottom of the totem pole. If we are truly the inferior masses, as America has tried to represent us, we would never be able to succeed, even if we were given the best. As Maya Angelou’s poem so brilliantly says And still I rise.1

    So as a member of the elite group of African Americans, I have observed the plight of America as an outsider. It has been all about us but only as long as we remain on the outside. African Americans simply want a level playing field, which means give our schools the same amenities that the other schools have and put the same amount of time and money in our neighborhoods as other neighborhoods. If we are the best qualified, hire us. Simply play fair. Ha Ha, sorry I was beginning to get carried away with the idea of an America that lived up to her billing. See, here is the really crazy part, we really didn’t care about separate but equal as long as equal was the predominate part, which was not the case. We have always had the bottom of the pot and we have always made the best of what we have had and had a great time. I personally know about getting the bottom of the pot because many aspects of my American way of life were with old used books from white schools or a brand new chemistry lab with no equipment.

    I have had the opportunity to live and observe life, without a lot of hate-fill baggage, playing the game in the uniform that God gave me. Now that is not to say that I have not been apart of the movement for equality for all. I marched when I was in college and there were riots in Detroit when I first moved there and unfortunately there were riots when I first moved to Miami. Hmm! Am I a riot magnet? My point is I did not grow up in a ghetto. Living in those conditions might have changed my overall outlook and the tone of this book, which by the way is going to get pretty rough. If I had no opportunity to improve my life style, I would probably be, to say the least, hostile. I did, however, respect the Black Panthers for their desire to stand up to the system and improve their neighborhood, which is not the perception that our free press presented of that group of young men.

    My experiences have been relatively mild mannered. Since I, like President Obama, have been able to see life from a more positive side of being a minority, if there is such a thing. I have been able to predict the outcome of this presidency as if I wrote the script myself. I understand where the President is in his mind set, even though I am old enough to be his older, good looking sister. I know history because I have seen most things through the eyes of the race who always gets the short end of the stick. I know, I know, the haters will say I am playing the race card and I say, Hell yes, I am playing the race card. So because I am playing the race card, I can tell you how dreadful President Obama’s term of office will be for him. Okay, maybe not dreadful but certainly challenging. Please, it will be dreadful. I also want to give some insight into why things happen, so that maybe the next time we have a different type of president, like maybe a woman, we will be prepared and not get sucked into the divisiveness that destroys our majority and keeps us, the voting public, completely distracted all the time. Now, don’t get me wrong, Americans have always been divided and always for various reason, but, I’ll bet you, I will be able to pinpoint these new reasons better than anyone else because I am a know it all.

    Being a 64 year old African American woman who has lived through some of the major developments in this country, I have a pretty good idea how things usually proceed. I have lived through segregation and the white water faucet and the black water faucet. I mention the water faucets because if anyone drinking from either of those faucets knew how many whites and blacks spit into each others faucets, they would literally pass out. I have lived through marches for integration. I have lived through the Vietnam War and all the turmoil that occurred. I already stated that I lived through two riots and all of the aftermath. I have lived through the times in our history where there have been big changes, at least for my people. I have lived long enough to witness how easy it is to distract and scare the general public and the ease with which the public is willing to believe and divide themselves. Anytime you throw black face into the mix, you always get a subconscious fear and and even more division.

    I know the script of the first Black President’s term in office, but I must admit I really did not see this election ever happening. I never thought that Barack Obama would win the presidency. Well, history told me that it would not happen because racism is still very much alive in this country. I forgot, however, to take into account the other players in the presidential race. Republicans had screwed the country for eight years. Logically the country would select a Democrat, out of anger, and the only choices were a woman and a black man. Now, I thought that women, being the majority voters in the country, would finally unite in their misery and elect an woman president. Historically, I forgot. Sensibly, I forgot. I forgot how easily women are divided and why I forgot that is a mystery to me, I’ve seen it so often. Historically, I hoped that history would not repeat itself. After all, women are treated just like any other

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