Reply #42: I had posted last night, an Email that has been going around in the Black community [View All]

[FrenchieCat]

that was written by a Black head Deacon from a very prominent Black church. It pretty much sums up how a lot of Black folks feel about Mr. Corporate McDonald I've got a book to sell Smiley .....

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!