poll me, poll me not, poll me, poll me not...how many petals are left on this withered flower or is it a willow tree weeping for the things they all fail to see...

this may sound like a scratched record but how is it that a half white, half kenyan that is being racially demarcated to african of the americas is suppose to improve race and race relations simply by running for a political office. How many folks of African descendant have participated in political office before and after 1865? Did those folks presence cease lynchings, jim crow practices and/or institutional racism either overt or klan-destine [emphasis added]?

History please history: The economic, European-descadant elite have yet to apologise for the systemic, overt genocide against the native americans, the systemic enslavement and genocide of Africans [along with their British cousins whom they assume the nefarious act of slavery from at their war of liberation] and/or the neo-colonialist subjugations of the peoples of the Phillipines, Hawaiian, No. Mariana and Puerto Rico islands. The governance did attempt a formal apology of sorts to the Issei and Nisei and some Aleuts intermed during world war two; but this was way late and after two additional wars to boot. Did VietNam, Lao's People's Democratic Republic and Cambodia ever received formal apologies? I digress.

The point is that the nation's governance is way over due in its racial healing homework and has basically failed the course. No person of colour be they one quarter, one third, one half or one hundred percent can effect a change in the systemic denial of white priviledge and the basic debt long past due of their problem in that regard.

These folks from gallup and today usa would have served themselves and their time better running the clob stones at the fete at San Fermin since they are clearly in the right church just the wrong pew.

Sent by K MJUMBE | 1:16 AM ET | 07-15-2008