Clinton’s Campaign for Presidency
79-year-old James Watson, in an interview with a renowned British journal declared that Black people are genetically inferior to Whites on the issue of intelligence.
As we suspensefully but with all practical assurance approach the historic attainment of yet another trailblazing feat by this wonderful country called the United States of America, some issues are worthy of our collective attention.
In my 50plus years on this God’s blessed earth, I’ve observed directly and indirectly the ugliness
Throw-back to Richard Akinjide’s 12 2/3rd Math
of the dilapidated state of race relations. Same dilapidation has enjoyed worldwide spectatorship in this the latter part of the nomination process for the Democratic Party’s flag bearer as the presumptive loser, Hillary Rodham Clinton, appears to stake all that’s good and holy of her historical civil rights efforts (and her husband’s) to stubbornly demand the nomination.
Her campaign’s efforts time and time again to basically move the goalpost when a perfect cross a la Adokie Amesimaka is about to be met by an Odegbami header have demonstrated lack of effective planning – possibly the most important weakness of her qualification for the mandate. With a current reported debt of $20 million, she could have been more thoroughly carpeted for poor management but for the fact that her opponent’s campaign opted for the higher road.
Houston political analyst, Tunde, related Clinton’s experience to Mike Tyson losing his World Heavyweight Championship belt to underdog Buster Douglas in February 1990 in Tokyo, when overconfident Tyson went under-prepared and got knocked out. Tunde notes that the desperation in Tyson’s eyes between the latter rounds before he was knocked out in the 5 th round matches the utterances of Mrs. Clinton and her campaign.
Hillary Clinton has indicated that her opponent, Barack Obama, is unable to command the followership of white voters based on the voting pattern of her supporters, who’re generally described as illiterate, uneducated, hardworking white Americans. While TV interviews of some of this demographic after she swept West Virginia illustrate the mind-numbing extent of their illiteracy, Clinton agreed with Congressman Charles Rangel’s qualification of her utterance as “dumb”.
Her campaign’s efforts time and time again to basically move the goalpost when a perfect cross a la Adokie Amesimaka is about to be met by an Odegbami header have demonstrated lack of effective planning – possibly the most important weakness of her qualification for the mandate. With a current reported debt of $20 million, she could have been more thoroughly carpeted for poor management but for the fact that her opponent’s campaign opted for the higher road.
Houston political analyst, Tunde, related Clinton’s experience to Mike Tyson losing his World Heavyweight Championship belt to underdog Buster Douglas in February 1990 in Tokyo, when overconfident Tyson went under-
Hillary Clinton has indicated that her opponent, Barack Obama, is unable to command the followership of white voters based on the voting pattern of her supporters, who’re generally described as illiterate, uneducated, hardworking white Americans. While TV interviews of some of this demographic after she swept West Virginia illustrate the mind-
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Clinton now claims that the pre-determined 2026 delegate count needed for nomination is to be 2210.
It shouldn’t matter anyhow. She left it all too late.
And America is poised on the path for another first. When on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King and other Americans – literate and illiterate, educated and uneducated, white, black, and others, marched to challenge the nation to higher ideals, he referenced the Declaration of Independence that all men are “guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. Resistance to the selective definition of “men” in some quarters has brought us to where we are today; a place where a woman and a non-white man have freely campaigned to be the flag bearer of a major political party for the ultimate leadership position in the country – the presidency.
It shouldn’t matter anyhow. She left it all too late.
And America is poised on the path for another first. When on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King and other Americans – literate and illiterate, educated and uneducated, white, black, and others, marched to challenge the nation to higher ideals, he referenced the Declaration of Independence that all men are “guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. Resistance to the selective definition of “men” in some quarters has brought us to where we are today; a place where a woman and a non-
Efforts have been made along the way to throw a wrench in the works of an Obama nomination, but this movement doesn’t look like it’s going to be stopped. It’s the advance of the trumpeting elephant through the unyielding undergrowth along the
path to the watering hole. At the end of the day, both the elephant and the undergrowth will end up at the elephant’s destination.
America has done its bit. The concerted efforts of whites, blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and all others appear set to historically launch on the path to the White House a black man – actually, an offspring of a white mother and black father (the system has over time indicated that association with the “the much sought-after term ‘white’” is a privilege denied any baby with a trace of black). Laughable. At least, it should be but isn’t quite.
America has done its bit. The concerted efforts of whites, blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and all others appear set to historically launch on the path to the White House a black man – actually, an offspring of a white mother and black father (the system has over time indicated that association with the “the much sought-
It isn’t laughable because the black or African doesn’t have much to say “forget you” to the arrogant ones of the world about. You’re hard-pressed to find examples of black or African nations that are well-administered to showcase security and prosperity for its citizens and be a beacon of pride to black people around the world. To the shame of every one that ever had the opportunity to guide the ship of state of any black or African nation, the black person is always at the bottom rung of the ladder of discrimination – whether at home or abroad.
Well, here’s Barack Obama – just one generation removed from the continent of Africa – about to become the president of the United States of America. Obama, whose dad hailed from and was laid
to rest in Kenya, has successfully rallied the people of America to the cause of change for better relationship among fellow humans, but his father’s land like the typical African nation, struggles with enabling the most capable unselfish leaders into power to facilitate maximum productivity among its citizenry.
I personally have been annoyed over the years at the unrealized potentials of my mother nation, Nigeria, to “be to the black people of the world what the United States is to the whites” (Chief Obafemi Awolowo, 1979). But, as God would have it, while Nigeria has for 40something odd years shot herself in the foot over and over, and failed to realize her God-given potentials, America has brought to the attention of the world that no creation of God is genetically inferior in the process of humanity development for maximum productivity.
I personally have been annoyed over the years at the unrealized potentials of my mother nation, Nigeria, to “be to the black people of the world what the United States is to the whites” (Chief Obafemi Awolowo, 1979). But, as God would have it, while Nigeria has for 40something odd years shot herself in the foot over and over, and failed to realize her God-
In picking up the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics, James Buchanan pointed out that America was short-
On the true likelihood that Barrack Obama would become the President of good old US of A, what better illustration for the country to show progress from the laureate’s observation.
Here’s wishing Barack Obama all the very best on this historic opportunity. One less excuse for non-
Get to work, brothers! Show your children, in spite of their names, skin color, gender, whatever, they CAN become leaders in this great nation.
Chief Obafemi Awolowo (1909 - 1987)
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