Still running twice as hard…

She did everything we could ask where can i find a payday loan of a student.

She worked hard, studied hard, kept straight “A’s. She even overcame the challenge of early motherhood to earn the top honors. And she did it, she actually earned the highest grade point average in her class. Yet when the smoke cleared Kymberly Wimberly was only co-valedictorian of this year’s graduating class McGehee High School in Arkansas.

Both Wimberly and the local media were informed that she was the sole valedictorian. Then the principal decided that giving this Black girl that honor would create “a big fuss.” That’s when they changed the rules, declaring her co-valedictorian with a white female student who had a lower grade point average but a half-credit more than Wimberly. Until now credits were only considered when the GPAs were identical “to the bad credit loans kelowna decimal point.” Officials deny that race was the reason but other evidence exists to the contrary.

When you consider the wealth of media coverage of bad things done by Black youth, it would seem that this young lady would be getting all of the encouragement possible. She should be elevated as an example to others of what is possible. But somehow in 2011 acknowledging that a Black child may be smarter than her white counterparts is distasteful enough for a school system to change the rules and then fight a lawsuit to defend their actions.

Similar incidents are emerging in other parts of the nation and in other areas of life such as employment, law enforcement…and especially politics. And they always claim it’s not about race.

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He overcame the absence of his father and the challenges of the ghetto. He finished high school and college. He even became president of the United States of America. He paid his dues.

But from the beginning he has been the most disrespected and despised president in the history of the United States. Even before he was elected, conservative ministers told their followers that he was the anti-Christ, a label no white candidate or president has had to live with. The day after he was elected gun sales began going through the roof to the extent that Remington Arms ran out of bullets, something that has never happened in the history of that company. Before Congress and the world, he fast cash low rates was called a liar.

He inherited a broken economy and a nation in shambles from a predecessor who managed to start unwinnable wars and ruin everything he touched. Yet every move he has made to correct these problems has been met with vicious opposition. They are willing to harm the nation to make him look bad. Some would call that treason.

If you try to forget that Barack Obama is Black, conservatives will remind you with their unreasoning attacks on him. There is no other explanation as to why he is treated with more disdain and less respect than any of the white men who held the office before him.

In the past two weeks civility in politics has had hit a new low as the first Black president has to deal with racial terms we thought had died in the 1950s such as “boy” and incredibly “tar baby.” Not from angry men wearing sheets in the back of a barroom but from conservative elected officials and commentators speaking openly in the media. Of course weak apologies always follow as they try to sweep these incidents under the rug. But they are serious about devouring their own president.

Their fear is not that he will fail. To the contrary, their fear is that, unfettered, he will succeed. That he will prove himself their superior. And in 2011, in the United States of America, that idea is still unacceptable.

This article was originally published in the August 8, 2011 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper