Analysis: Obama And Osage Avenue

Bought a car!

Oddly enough, as I drove home through various neighborhoods, I saw none of the endorsement signs that usually sprinkle lawns and shopping centers at election time.

It appears no one wants to make their preference public. One bold man, and one man alone, charged through traffic in his SUV, with a nobama bumper sticker. Other than that Nada. Nothing. Zilch. Not one Obama/Biden nor one McCain/Palin anything.

I wonder why that is? I think they're afraid.

Could it be all the aggressive chanting and booing that most normal people would not prefer in their neighborhood? The mobs? The fear of terrorism? The wall to wall Obama coverage that has forced many to seek out sources of reliable information? More people than I realized have been reading the internet--the silent majority of lurkers. They'll advert their eyes as they admit it.

This isn't 1936 and people recognize it as a scary propoganda tactic, particularly when they drive around the city and find gas station after gas station with anti-American posters in their store-front windows. Owners simultaneously taking our money to support their families and hoping we rot in hell. And they'll say it to your face!

It's true that 99.9% of people do not knowingly or willingly associate with the types of people Obama associates with. How many former domestic terrorists teach at Universities?

How does one reconcile the fact that a former domestic terrorist is elevated to an academic position, but the average man who robbed a bank when I was eight, would never be afforded the same opportunity? That is a double-standard and a system that rewards terrorism as a form of Independent Study, which is an insult to every American, particularly the people who've volunteered to defend us when necessary.

I'm beginning to believe a silent majority exists.

John Africa and the MOVE organization comes to mind. I'm sure it comes into the minds of many around here.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Africa

John Africa was a charismatic leader and a founder of MOVE, a communal and political organization prominent in the United States in the early 1970s. MOVE was a black liberation organisation that mixed black liberation with radical green politics in the form of anarcho-primitivism.

(Rev. Wright, anyone?)

Africa died along with six other adults and four children when the Philadelphia Police Department dropped an explosive device on the MOVE headquarters during a law enforcement action. The explosion started an uncontrolled fire. As a result, 53 houses burned and 240 people were left homeless

Africa was born Vincent Leaphart on July 26, 1931 in the Mantua neighborhood of West Philadelphia. Leaphart's mother died when he was young, and he blamed the hospital where she was being treated for her death.

(Obama, anyone?)

Leaphart served in the Korean War, from which he derived an early hatred of the American class system and what he perceived as its ties to race. He adopted the name "John Africa" because of his ethnic origin as an African-American, and because he regarded the continent of Africa as the origin of life itself.

(Rev. Wright)

Africa later met Donald Glassey, a social worker from the University of Pennsylvania, with whom Africa began to collaborate. Africa was functionally illiterate, so Glassey wrote down Africa's ideas. Glassey's notes would eventually become a document called The Guideline.

(Academics and politicians enter the picture and the city goes BOOM.)

It's certainly a day I'll never forget. Or a street name. Osage Avenue.
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The honesty by omission media and blaming McCain, yeah, that probably angers people. I've never heard him make this apt analogy. Have you? No. How about the media? No? I can tell you from my short time as a reporter, not much honor and integrity is involved. For most, you get the story and the angle your editor dictates, or you walk.

Like free speech, but different.

Now someone has made the anology. To people in PA and Philadelphia, the narrative is a familiar one. We've lived through it. Been there and done that.

So, again I ask, is this the predicted "culture war" being incited yet again by academics, anarchists and politicians?

Tough sell. Be much more humane and productive to help needy families fucked over by predatory sub-prime mortgage lenders REMAIN IN THEIR HOMES.

Unless those lenders and investors are your friends and you want to socialize their cost of doing business, by bailing out Wall Street and letting Mainstreet and the marginalized absorb the cost, while politicians deflect and point the finger of blame elsewhere. To your fellow neighbor. Sorry, we suburbanites are a diverse crowd who get along, and we do not want divisive politics.

I think people have had enough of politics as usual. And it's That One, The Cute One--Obama.

Having managed rental properties in the city of Philadelphia, I think only a slumlord would rally the marginalized and the needy under duress, and then rob them of their homes.

That is the antithesis of liberation, effectively blocking the entrance for people hoping to remain or move into, and thus build, the middle-class, while opening a gateway for investors to gentrify the area, instead of allowing people to build equity in their neighborhoods.

Those are Obama's friends. Not you. Those are the people pouring money into his campaign. Not you and your $5.00 bucks.

A vote for Obama is a vote for the *hope* of Univeral Health Care, so you can be housed in a for their profit hospital room instead of a for your profit bedroom, out of the line of vision of the so-called "elite."

Jesse Jackson is RIGHT.