afelton's Blog

Not everyone generally likes their past. Especially if its been full of bad times, people tend to distance themselves from it. Because what you have done in your past reflects your present BUT what you do in the present will reflect your future.

Enter the United States of America. A relatively young strong WONDERFUL country. She is only 232 years old. (but dont tell her that). America has won almost every war she has encountered except for one. HER PAST!

Her treatment of minorities in her past particularly Black Americans has come back to haunt her from the pulpit of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. America is trying to distance herself from her past kind of like a bad divorce but how can you forget your past when people keep bringing it up. And why do people keep throwing the past in her face?  Its because some people are still hurt from it.

Enter Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Senator Obama's former pastor whose outlandish remarks has put him in the forefront of the past 2 wks. He may of thought that he was uplifting his black congregation but all he did was bring more division.  Now we may have the first Black (or half black half white OR half white, half black) Presidential candidate caught up in this. The Senator is trying to distance himself  from his past of 20 yrs of church attendance by having a speech later today. Can he do it?  Maybe Senator Obama needs some advice from the US who is still trying to distance herself for over 40 yrs from her past.

It seems like no matter what she does, folks are still not happy. She has trounced the KKK who is no longer a strong force it has once been during Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement. She has set up some entitlements for minorities ie Affirmative Action which to me goes against what the Civil Rights Movement stood for. (Juding people by the content of their character not the color of their skin) . and the Indians dont have to pay taxes. There is more but how can  the past stay buried?

  So can America be delivered from her troubled past regarding racial issues?  Maybe so but there is one more controversy from America's past that is trying to resurrect from the grave! Some Blacks call it Racist and Southerners call it Heritage!  Her name? The Battle Flag of the Old Confederacy!