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Peace,

It is a travesty, and a shame that the one country on the African Continent that was founded by U.S.A. african slaves, don't warrant the commentary of trivia, drama, and entertainment that the blogs of black voices dominate. When we begin to connect with our ancestral roots, then we, too, will have a place where we can say...this belongs to us!!! Our political interests are so narrow, and media driven. When education begins to focus on our committment to the aquisition of knowlege, from an historical perspective, then, we will begin to prosper as a people here in the U.S. and abroad.

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Blessed Love to Hon. Pres. Ellen Sirleaf Johnson for distinguishing the connection of Africa and African Americans. Liberia has been an important part of US history till this day. Slave masters tried to correct their egregious wrongs by sending African American political prisoners (slaves) to Liberia to resettle, causing even more division in the African country, this problem has been brewing for over 2 centuries and Obama surely could be a great bridge for African Americans to reach Africa in a pertinent way. If African Americans think only in terms of our identity being in America because we were born here, think again, obviously being born here doesn't serve u anymore higher rights than someone not born here. You can be homeless, jobless and worthless in your own country, something we have experienced since being brought here. Africa must certainly be on our agenda as well for the next President. Until Africa is a continent filled with the promise of our ancestors only then will African Americans and the diaspora for that matter will be able to certifiably say we have a home. We are still in exile and being born here hasn't guaranteed that we're not.

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Now is the time for everyone that has a clear head to unite and vote for a leader that never react in a heated rush. We have a man who stands tall and can take our country to the next level and ensure that our children will have a future. $700 Billion Dollars is more money then a lot of countries put together have seen in a life time. When we have been on the brink of Mass Destruction for years, and so many of our hard working citizens have lost everything they own, leaving countless families homeless and hopeless, yet no one saw fit to give even a dollar for a bail out.

When Senator Obama pointed out months ago, that we invaded a country and destroyed it and didn't even go after the people responsible for 911, all that they have done is put more of our Soldiers life in harms way and spend more money in a War that is going nowhere, and now Senator Mc Cain and his side kick, are willing to put more money and life on the road to nowhere.

" OBAMA 2008 "

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Senator Barack Obama has shown true leadership throughout his campaign but never more so than these last couple of weeks. He has remained calm and cool in this crisis situation and the world has born witness to his intelligence. They say comaprisons are odious, but when you put Obama and McCain side by side, Obama stands head and shoulders above McCain in the leadership stakes. This country needs Obama. If anyone still supports McCain after this weeks debacle it will only be because they are either idiots or because they would rather vote in a fool (again) rather than a black man.

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Far too long has a select few unseen powerful privileged influential so-called leaders in America has driven the American debate, marginalized the true debaters of American and the World, silenced the dissenting voices by pure bullying tactics, hyperboles and twisted truth.

When one sole man who happened to be and American and a so called black man of the lineage of the oppressed for decades stood up to addressed the elephant in the room to heal America and to allow her to laugh at its diversity, the media and press core led by the drum beat of the right-wing, Republican, conservative talk show host participated in the worse assassination of character in modern history. A true patriot of America who served his country and these true hypocrites and true charlatans took sound bites of a sermon and then blasted across the medium both radio and TV with the intent to miss-characterized the content of the entire sermon.

These tyrants then reverted back to 1950s tactics used by those people who had no problem bombing a church with children nor having a picnic with their families as they hung a men of color and any white man who took up for the man of color from a tree after they tortured him then lit him on fire. These right-wing tricksters browbeat, smear, slander, insult, denigrate and vilify any man or woman who would dare challenge these true bullies in their shallow thinking.

The media and press core then placed the last nail in the Great Debater coffin the next day and participated in the worse assassination of character ever and the majority remained silent and many fell in line.

We were left wondering after the month long assassination of character of one man who discussed the fears in the hearts of many after Tuskegee experiment, what just happened. The message sent to the Black Americans was loud and clear. If you speak out, if you challenge the right-wing way of thinking, you too will go the way of those before you who attempted to challenge the establishment, and that goes for both White and Black alike.

Defamation of character is the weapon of choice to silence their opponents. What happened this week, three months before President Bush is to leave office was the worse political stunt ever pulled on the American people. These masters of deceit understand how to manipulate the financial market and oil market. When the polls went up to a 9 point lead in favor of Obama, these hidden privileged possibly in secret societies, pull the Wallstreet string to force fears of economic depression

I continue to say let those in financial trouble, pull themselves up by their boot straps. There are many of us who had to take cold showers, eat rice, and lived a tough life and died early, so you current situation is nothing new under the sun. Welcome to the real world. Live by cash not Credit! They looked at the inner city folks and called them lazy when they were down on their luck, never once did they suggest 700 Billion dollars to help jump start their economic sitation after 400 years of oppression, yet now they have lost all and they want the inner city to pay for the risks they took with their hard earned money. This is a political stunt! They were trying to change the conversation and may have succeeded.

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As much as I admire Sen. Obama, the fact remains that his election will not change one blessed thing for the average black family.

Unless we STAY IN SCHOOL and encourage our children to become educated, we will continue to be shackled by the chains of ignorance and poverty.

Unless we GET A JOB (and actually keep it), we will continue to be crushed under the thumb of the white man's charity.

Until we STOP MAKING BABIES WE CAN'T AFFORD TO SUPPORT, we will continue to doom our children to lives of neglect and imprisonment.

Until we TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR OWN BEHAVIORS, we will continue to earn the contempt of every civilized culture on the planet.

Unless we STOP MAKING EXCUSES, we will forever remain our own worst enemy.

Obama/Biden '08

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Through Blood, Sweat, and tears Our grandmothers have help to make this Country what it is Today for the African Americans and being both White and African American Obama can make the change for the entire Country

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What are we going to do people? All of the comments we leave on these blogs are pretty accurate, but what are we DOING? We are Africans, we are African Americans, we are citizens of America, we are the mightiest of the mighty, we are the chosen people, we are creative, we are talented, we excel in anything we put our minds to, we've always had to work harder and smarter and we're able to do that exceptionally well, everyone on this planet and in every nook and cranny mimics our style, our talk, our walk, our song, our dance, our everything. It seems everyone knows our power except us! We spend billions making other people wealthy and do nothing to increase the wealth in our own communities. Some of us do, but not enough.

What are we going to do? Those of us that are sane, intelligent and action oriented need to begin a movement that entails encouraging, assisting, inspiring, producing, distributing, marketing, creating, organizing our own. Lawyers need to come together for the cause, politicians need to come together for the cause, doctors need to come together for the cause, and the list goes on of those of us with talents and skills that we could be putting to use in helping our own. Lawyers need to come together with programs designed to help our young men and women unjustly imprisoned, doctors need to create programs to insure our people are well and all for FREE or in exchange for whatever talent and skill the individual may have. I'm not saying give away all of our talents and skills for free, but don't be afraid to share our skills with those less fortunate. And help those people learn a skill too.

I could go on and on, but this isn't the forum, just think about these things and pass it on and begin to take action in your communities and it'll catch on. We can all profit on many levels. We need to begin educating our people on our achievements and contributions to the world so they too can aspire to greatness. We grew up learning about Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and soooo many others but we know nothing about Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, Frances Cress Welsing, Na'im Akbar and the millions of contributors to psychology, history, science and so on. We learn nothing about our contributions in the American educational system.

OK, let me stop, I'm just tired of this American mess always affecting us first and foremost and we do next to nothing to help our cause.

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My thanks to the President of liberia for her remarks on the next black president of the United States,I am very confident that Obama will win this election without a shallow of a doubt because this the set order of God for this period and it is going to happen
May god continue to bless and keep her and keep the peace in liberia

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Please, past this along. Obama is using great ways to keep people in the know. Are you registered? Find out by using the web address below:

https://www.voteforchange.com/index_obama.php?secure=ofa

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