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forwarded it to me.
Subject: Can you believe this...Tavis Smiley attacking Barack Obama? Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:43:07 +0000
> Good morning, > > Apparently Tavis Smiley went off on Barack Obama this morning because he > declined an invitation to participate in Tavis Black America symposium. > > Tavis Smiley making an issue out of Obama not attending his Covenant with > Black America Symposium is reckless, thoughtless, and just plain selfish. > You would think that he is smart enough and progressive enough to realize > the difference between attending a symposium for Black America and running > a campaign to run America. > > Our self proclaimed leaders can't seem to see that the same old thing is > gong to get us to the same old place. Jessie Jackson ran on a platform > that targeted black america, he got real far. Obama can't afford to be > pigeon holed into being the Black candidate if he wants to win. But he > does understand he is Black. Look at the facts. His mother is white, and > his black father left when he was two years old. He was raised by his > white grand parents. However he still married a Black Wife, and has Black > Baby's. I am sure he had the opportunity to marry a white woman and > further separate his later generations from Black america. He has a law > degree from Harvard, hell even a white father would give their white > daughter to him. But he married a black woman and proceeded to serve as a > civil rights lawyer in Chicago. > > Tavis, Tom, and Julian have done a lot of great things in our community. > However, their reactive victim mentalities are continuing to cripple us. > They have gotten rich off of playing to the black victim role. Yes there > are tragedies happening to black people in America, but the biggest > tragedies are the ones that we commit to one another by not telling each > other the truth. > > Bill Cosby told the truth. And the truth is, running America is more > important than Tavis's meeting. Being able to tell my future son that he > can be president, is more important than Tavis's meeting and his book. > Black boys seeing another clean black man that is not rapping, singing, or > dancing is more important than Tavis's meeting. > > Why is Hillary showing up? She has to. Obama is eating into her base, > therefore she needs to come to the biggest dog and pony show Black Am erica > is having this year to try and steal potential supporters. And in the > typical house negro mentality, Tavis and friends give her praises for > this. All the while Obama is in the field trying to fertilize the land in > order to grow change. > > Your summit is supposed to be about pushing black america forward in > america. What better example of that is there than the Obama's? Isn't > the goal to encourage black america, or for Tavis and friends to encourage > black america. > > The civil rights movement was successful because Dr. King understood that > it had to be about the civil rights of all americans. Black america was > positively affected, but it would not have been such a movement if it was > just a black thing. If you want Black america to progress it needs to be > sold as a benefit to all america. Not just b lack america. Obama seems to > understand this. Why can't Tavis. > > I encourage everyone that gets this email to do what Tom and Tavis do when > they see injustice. Flood their faxes and e-mails with your thoughts and > tell them to leave this man alone. They don't have to support him but > they don't have to hate on him. The crabs in a barrel mentality has to > cease. > > Come on Tavis...don't think so small, especially when you're attempting to self-promote at the expense of others. You are walking on thin ice!
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