The 109 year-old daughter of a slave casts a vote for someone who is likely to become the first African-American President of the United States:
Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country’s first black presidential nominee.
As I noted when Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for President, there is something historic about what is about to happen that should be acknowledged regardless of how one feels about Barack Obama’s policy positions.
She is casting the vote for a half-black guy who has no history with slavery in America except with his white slave-owning ancestors. His Arab Muslim ancestors probably owned Black African slaves too.
So, the connection is based on the color of skin – not ancestry and certainly not content of character. You may recall that phrase from Dr. MLK Jr.
And Catholics voted for Kennedy in 1960 and Al Smith in 1928 because the candidate was Catholic.
So what ?
At this point, I honestly think that someone would have to be either an idiot or a bigot to deny the historic significance of what is obviously going to happen on Tuesday.
It will be historically significant – and a charade based on the color of his skin. Only an idiot or bigot can’t see that Barack Hussein Obama isn’t from the lineage of the Black experience in America.