The Haves and the Have Nots

I’m not a racist. My family is very mixed and I love all kinds of people.

I’m not the first person to mention an impending race war, which I did in a Philadelphia Daily News column, which ran on September 2, 2008. Conservative syndicated columnist Carl Rowan wrote about it in his 1996 book The Coming Race War in America, a Wake-up Call. Malcolm X talked about it frequently.  Sodid Father James Woodruff, a radical, sixties priest and scholar, who penned, Race War in America in 1972.Now out of print, Woodruff’s assessment: “racism simmers – just beneath the surface of every day life in America”. I’m not some “gun toting, commie   pinko “as some called me. Nor, am I a “lay about,” expecting a hand out. Neither are most Democrats, despite what some some Republicans may think.

I could barely keep my eyes opened, watching the Republican National Convention and I was bored out of my skin. Listening to them drone on and on about our national security, yet never once mention their plans to help get people back to work was sickening. And, I hardly saw any black people there. Any where!  Like millions, my family toughs it out daily, trying to survive. Work for me has been scarce, and although my mate is a full time teacher and has a private massage practice, we’re unable to make ends meet.

But, we’re hardly alone in this reality.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports there are now 9.4 million unemployed people in America . We’re   tired of wanting more work, when there isnone. Republicans aren’t going to fix this; they won’t even talk about it. Look how long it took for George Bush to do any thing about the U.S. housing crisis. And who did he help first?  The banks, not families.   

Despite what he says, John McCain is more of the same agenda and apparently is even more cold blooded than Bush. His entire acceptance speech talked about war. He trots out “Annie get your gun “Sarah Palin, for VP, but she is just eye candy. As she says, a female dog in lipstick. Deceptive ! I call her Ursula, (The sea witch from Little Mermaid), and find her really scary. Her main purpose – to distract us all from the fact that McCain has no plan to ease the pains of working poor and middle class Americans. Is this who we want in the Whitehouse?

Like the cartoon Pinky and the Brain, Republicans want to conquer the world, and they aren’t going to re-think their agenda to benefit the working class. President Bush has already shown us the GOP is hell-bent on widening the economic, health, housing and educational divides. And if things continue as they are, soon there won’t be a middle class.

Only the rich and the poor.