The Mindset of Slavery:

Just when you think it is over it is not. America today faces a crisis of leadership again. The fundamental question is can a Black man be elected to the office of President of the United States of America. I think if we look back at America and the history of the Black race’s contributions the answer is that such a thing is long over due. Some will say Barack Obama is not the right man at the right time. To those folks I say Herbert Hoover might have been the worst possible choice when elected.

If we are ever to bind up the wounds that racial hatred and racial violence has caused I fear it will not be accomplished by a white president. As enlightened as LBJ was he served in Congress when there was an occasional lynching in Texas. White Texans even today can not understand how terrified both the Black and the Brown citizens of Texas were in those days.

Most of this was due to what I call the Mindset of Slavery. This type of thinking corrupts both the slave and the master. The slave learns to do those things required to get along and the master learns to become arrogant and uncaring. Neither attitude is helpful to build a strong democracy. I would argue that the wedge driven in the society of Texas is only now being addressed and is far from just or equitable at this point in time.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810307/posts

The above URL has quotes from the Lynch manual on slave training. The word lynching is derived from this man’s last name. The incidents occurred not 200 years ago in Virginia but rather last spring in Paris Texas. Such events are enough or should be enough to make any citizen of Texas see red and write letters to the state and federal authorities.

To all this talk of not ready I say as is attributes to William E. Gladstone “Justice delayed is justice denied.” Gladstone also said "Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.” I think both apply in America today. I despair that we are becoming or have become uncaring and unjust.