Observations about Scott, Benghazi and ‘Lincoln’

By Peter Bailey
TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist

As a person who strongly believes payday loan lorain ohio that Black people spend too much time focusing on politics and not nearly enough on maximizing our individual and collective economic resources, I didn’t do any high-fiving or chest bumping over the re-election of President Obama and the appointment of Rep. Tim Scott as U.S Senator from South Carolina.

We can continue electing people to political office after political office, but until we use our economic resources more effectively, we cash advance batavia ohio will never achieve any real power in this country. Those who want guidelines on how to do this should study Marcus Garvey, read Harold Cruse’s book, Plural But Equal, Claud Anderson’s Powernomics, Chapter 15 in Chancellor Williams’ Destruction of African Civilization: Great Issues of a race 2500 B.C. – 2000 A.D. and the Blackonomics columns of Professor James Clingman. I should add that when Scott was extending thanks to a bunch of payday loan interest refund folks for his appointment, he ignored South Carolina State University students, Samuel Hammond Jr., 18, Delanor Herman Middleton, 17, and Henry Ezekial Smith, 19, who in 1968 were shot to death by South Carolina Highway Patrol Officers as they demonstrated against white supremacy/racism.
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It is both fascinating and revealing that in all the commentary and conjecture around the killing of the U.S Ambassador to Libya, no one has observed cash advance arden that it may very well have been an act of retribution and revenge by Quadaffi loyalists. The Ambassador was reportedly very well connected to the events that led to the overthrow and execution of the Libyan President. It is entirely plausible that there are some forces in Libya who have sworn to get revenge for their late leader. At least that possibility makes as much sense as the other causes that have payday loans ofallon mo been thrown around and investigated by pundits and politicians.
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Near the end of Steven Spiel-berg’s movie, “Lincoln,” there is a scene in which Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, sits gloomingly on his horse after surrendering at Appomattox. Before he rides off into the sunset, victorious Union general, Ulysses S. Grant, and several of his aides remove their hats as a kind of farewell salute to General Lee, an enslaver of African payday loans ft myers people who violated the loyalty oath he took at West Point by taking up arms against the United States. He was a major player in a war that resulted in the death of over 600,000 soldiers and the wounding of several million other combatants and civilians. What Lee did is the very definition of treason. While watching the scene of Grant saluting Lee, I thought, “That was the exact moment that eventually cash loans tyne and wear led to the former Confederate states winning what I called the post-Civil War propaganda campaign. Their successful spin has led to Lee and many other military violators of their West Point oaths of loyalty to be treated as honorable citizens of the United States.

This article was originally published in the January 7, 2013 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper