Signs’ of the times

10th October 2011   ·   0 Comments

I have been following cash loans fast approval the hoop-de-la of the Obama billboard in white folks’ city called “Uptown.”

If one were to research the political satire of incumbent politicians, one would find far more demeaning and cynical buffoonery than we find on the billboards on Calhoun Street.

After recovering from the initial shock of the demeaning satire, Black folks need to be able to assign our troops to the work at hand in countering the effects this sign was created to produce. As I looked very carefully at the sign I was able to discern several obvious direction and purposes for the satire.

First and foremost, I understand that the Tea Party is behind the hoop-de-la of this satire. This suggests a recruitment tool for the Tea Party and a bold statement that the KKK can and will exchange sheets for business suits whenever the need arises. A trick called the chameleon act that southern European whites used several hundred years ago in changing the biblical Jews from Black to white. So, in understanding the Houdini element of European history, we can understand the sleight of hand with the current Tea Party.

With all of the noise and finger­pointing made over the satire billboard, recruitment for the Tea Party in New Orleans will increase. The rallying cry Blacks responded to also created top 10 payday loans no brokers a rally cry for both the openly racist factions of the white race and the silent whites who stay behind the scenes as partners who finance racism throughout the world.

Secondly, but by no means the last straw, the Tea Party has set into motion an anti-Black support mechanism by Blacks for another Black presidential candidate. Herman Cain, the Black Republican hopeful who went up in the polls a few weeks back by winning a straw poll in Florida, is clearly plastered on the billboard as though the billboard is in support of the Black candidate.

What few Black folks bothered to notice was the two campaign stickers on the billboard proclaiming support for the GOP’s Black presidential candidate, Herman Cain. This small inclusion on the billboard is the Tea Party’s attempt to remove any suggestion of racism from the Tea Party and proclaims the Tea Party’s support for another candidate who happens to be Black.

What Black folks are not considering — even though it is a remote possibility that two Black candidates could face off for president— that this could seriously open the door for a third-party white candidate to be nominated on a third-party ticket and win. In politics, everything must be weighed. I am not saying this is likely, I am just reading the possibilities on the wall top Arizona cash advance that could very logically come to pass. This is called “Critical Thinking,” a process Black folks are rarely given credit for exercising.

Black folks are always talking about the democracy, encouraging Blacks to get involved in the electoral process by registering to vote. Well, if Black folks want to become involved in the electoral process, then Blacks have to become acclimated to the process by accepting those things that seem to be disrespectful. After all, political satire is the nature of the beast of democracy. The best way I can reference this situation of political satire is by saying that President Obama, who has taken many hits worst than the billboard on Calhoun Street, understands the nature of the beast and rolls with the punches. As Obama has shown the country, you don’t get even by throwing stones, you get even by beating your opponents at what your opponents do best; in this case, playing up the fact that the Tea Party is backing a Black man for the Republican nomination to the office of the Presidency of the United States. This will split the Republican Party into the Mason-Dixie line of popular politics and the “Civil War” will start all over again within the Tea Party. What a way to keep the Ku Klux Klan busy during the Presidential average interest rates on unsecured loans election year.

Turning this political fervor into political capital will throw ignorance back into the faces of the ignoramuses that concocted this satirical billboard on Calhoun Street. Hopefully, Timothy S. Reily, living at 1578 Calhoun Street, will equally understand political satire when the likeness of his image comes out on a billboard depicting him at a KKK rally at City Hall. Remember Timothy, it is the nature of the beast.

We must be ever vigilant about the original Tea Partiers, who had to disguise themselves as Indians to demonstrate their displeasures with the Royal Family in England. Most Black folks stand up to be counted to allow everyone to know who they are and what they are displeased with the status quo about. After all, the hoods and the sheets over the business suits are the costumes of choice for the new Tea Party. Let us all learn a lesson from the fact that the first KKK members were the police, marshals, and sheriffs of law enforcement. The Tea Party is no different.

I end the commentary with a plea to Black folks: Employ “Critical Thinking” before engaging in emotional fervor.

– W.C. Johnson

This article was originally published in the October 10, 2011 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper