Now That It Is Over

Now That It Is Over.....
Kevin Bryant

Raise you hand if you are thankful that this election is FINALLY over. I know I am. My own little humble opinion is that campaigning should be limited to three months before the primaries and three months before the general election. It should also come with a total spending limit.

So, Barack Obama is now going to become the 44th President of the United States. All the major media outlets are going nuts over the fact that their candidate was elected. We got bombarded by headlines like "Obama Makes History", "It's A New Beginning", "Obama Overcomes Racial Barriers". Eat it up main stream media. We all know Obama won.

What would America or the world think if other truthful headlines were sprawled across the front pages of major media outlets? Things like "Obama Receives 95% Of The Black Vote", "Latino's Favor Obama 69% to 31%", "Blacks Vote Among Racial Lines", “Whites Prove To Be The Least Racist Americans During Election". Could you imagine the outcry from just about every source known to man if these truths were made into headlines?

The other night I was watching an interview a local news channel was having with one of the black “Reverends” in the Kansas City area. He was asked by a reporter if he felt racial equality had finally been met. The reverend’s response was that this election was a step in the right direction but equality has not even come close to being met in the areas of economics and education.

Kansas City is the same as many larger cities. In the urban areas is where you find a higher concentration of blacks and latinos. Whites seem to be more on the outer fringes of the cities and more centrally located in suburbs. In Kansas City proper, the racial mix is something like 16% latino, 34% black and 49% white, yet the city employs along the lines of 14% latino, 23% white and 62% black. On the city council you will find all but 2 members are black. Over half of all the city’s department heads and superintendents are black, including 3 of the last 4 school district superintendents. The other was latino. Would someone please explain to me how with these types of percentages and blacks holding a majority of the upper seats of local power, there is still racial inequality and discrimination against blacks within the city?

There was a brutal murder night before last in KCMO. One of the residents around the shooting was interviewed and in that interview, the man stated “Now that Obama has been elected, I hope he cleans this area up”. If blacks make up and control over 60% of the local government and they can’t clean it up, what would make this person think Obama’s going to do it? Oh wait, I forgot, Obama is the new Messiah and not only can he walk on water, heal the sick and perform other miracles, he can also with the wave of his hand, alter people’s behavioral patterns.

Our economy is starting to resemble the Jimmy Carter era. Our government is starting to resemble the Jimmy Carter era. Corporations and CEO’s are acting along the same lines they did during the Jimmy Carter era. Obama has repeated time and again he will do many of the same things that Jimmy Carter did while he was in office.

I welcome Obama to the office of the President of the United States and hope that he does do many of the same things Jimmy Carter did. You know the old saying, there is a silver lining in all things if you look hard enough and had it not been for Jimmy Carter and his policies, America would have never had Ronald Reagan as its President.