(Akiit.com) A question that’s been whispered, grumbled about, and on occasion even angrily shouted out on blogs and chat sites is why is it that the whites who back Hillary Clinton are lambasted as racist, yet the black voters that back Obama in near record numbers aren’t? The question has angrily rolled off more than a few lips in the wake of the steadily firming up racial brick wall that Obama crashed against with legions of white voters in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. The charge of a racial double standard started with a few random comments from some white voters who said they wouldn’t vote for Obama because they were turned off by the sight of so many blacks deliriously backing him. This convinced them that blacks backed him solely because he’s black and their only interest was to get one of their own in the White House.

A number of whites in Kentucky and West Virginia almost certainly voted for Clinton not because they believed she’ll be the most able commander -in-chief but simply because the only other choice was Obama. In exit interviews, some flatly said so. Clinton indirectly fed that visceral racism with her disastrous, an ill framed quip that hard working, white Americans back her and not Obama.

There’s little doubt that a top heavy black vote powered Obama’s crushing wins over Clinton in the South, and helped keep him competitive in Ohio and Indiana, the states that he lost. It’s also true that blacks have a special enthusiasm for his campaign that’s fueled by a mix of pride, admiration, accomplishment, and the sense that he can win and make history. He’s also the presidential candidate who they desperately long for to wipe away the horrid taste of the Bush years. But the enthusiasm is also fueled by him being black. In exit polls in North Carolina nearly a quarter of black voters admitted that race was the big factor in motivating them to vote for Obama. This is the sore point for some whites.

But Obama’s color and the pride blacks take in his historic first tell only part of the story of why so many blacks cheer him. Obama is a Democrat, and so are the overwhelming majority of black voters. They have given every Democratic presidential candidate and incumbent since Lyndon Johnson in 1964 a consistent, and at times off the chart, percentage of their votes. They gave Democratic presidential candidates Al Gore and John Kerry nearly ninety percent of their vote, and they were white Democrats. If Obama hadn’t come along, many would have been just as exuberant about Hillary Clinton, and they would have given her as big if not a bigger percent of their vote than Gore or Kerry got. In fact, given the love fest many blacks had with Bill Clinton, at least before Bill’s perceived early campaign racial mud sling at Obama, Clinton still might have gotten a respectable percentage of black votes.
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(Akiit.com) Was over at Youtube today, and a few videos I watch really got to me… I’m amaze at how one can be on the top of the world, and within months lose everything… That lets me know nothing is guaranteed and one’s choices can indeed change your life for the worse… I had to call up some friends then, and just talk… Anyway, I must do alittle shopping, as I’m looking for some wine racks which shall go nicely with the wine I just purchased…

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(Akiit.com) Orlando, Florida - The Black churches here in Orlando from what I see have been ineffective in reaching our younger generation. Look at who is filling the seats of the congregation and pews of our local houses of worship. You see nothing but women (single, widowed and divorced), older men and effeminate men, if any men at all. Why doesn’t the church attract the masses of our targeted young black males?

Why is it that the prosperity preachers can gain the respect and attention of the affluent but don’t seem to have a sense of urgency to go into the troubled segment of our communities, to save the destructive spiral of those who are supposed to inherit OUR life’s work and legacy?

Many in the church “distance” themselves from the hardcore realities that are broadcast every night on the news programs, featuring our lost men and women who have been failed by our holy institutions. Institutions that openly boast about how their membership grows, but can’t boast how they are just as effective in lowering the sad poverty, illiteracy and crime statistics, that reflect how much of a failure they have been in those very same neighborhoods. The churches dysfunctional denial has definitely kept them shielded from the pulse of what is truly transpiring right in our very neighborhoods.

Seems to me as though we had more love and concern for each other as slaves on the plantation, catching hell from your beloved slavemaster, who you still jump for to this very day in his corporate plantations! You feel blessed to now be free, but you are no more free than those who walk down O.B.T. at night, desperately searching for some cash by any means necessary for the next hit crack. Am I lying? No! You are a slave to that high interest rate mortgage that you are stuck in. You are a slave to that high car note, yet don’t have enough cash to pay for gas. You are a slave to that internet pornography, secretly playing with yourself late at night but will show up in service with your nose up in the air. You are a slave to to the job you are scared to lose, because you have not thought how to make money OUT of the box! Scared that everyday could be your last! So don’t act as though you are not ruled by someONE or someTHING! You just hide it better!

We are as strong as our weakest link. But many preachers/shysters who care not about the next generation are hardly concerned about that fact, as long as they can sell those same mothers who support their lavish lifestyles a dream that their sons and daughters will be “alright” while incarcerated down at 33rd Street (Dirty Third Street) and that “miracles do happen.” Keep praying they say, while that same mother drops tithes and offerings regularly and diligently making YOU know, as a representative (pardon me for calling you that!) of our Creator, that miracles ($$$$) do happen….

Sure! It’s easy to say this while you count her hard earned money that she worked two jobs for, that should be there for our young when the teachers at school are not! Money that should be there to keep the church lit, heated and well stocked with nourishment while us luxury car driving “so called blessed examples of God”, extend ourselves with a sense of urgency to those that need those resources desperately.

These kids that are lost now will be the so called prison population inmates of tomorrow. You look down upon them because they want the finer things in life, while barely surviving in the gutter. Where do you think they get the idea to want these cars, homes and jewelry? From drug dealers alone? They hear you every week down on your knees praying to God for a bigger house. But the house you already have you can’t handle. You pray for a newer more expensive car, but the one you have now doesn’t break down or give you any problems. You want the excesses of this world but you could never extend your heart to your brother/sister in a way that will instantly open Heaven’s gates, allowing you to possess God’s superior riches.
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(Akiit.com) Huntsville, Alabama - Last semester one of my students dropped by for an office visit and, to my great surprise and annoyance, sex came up, again and again.

Yes, sex. Like when, sensing his restlessness and wistfulness, I asked him how he finds “peace” so that he can achieve a state of mind conducive to studying. (Even though he was failing my class, it was clear to me that he has a great deal of ability and academic promise.) He responded that he likes to drive around in his car, watch sport competitions “and I like sex.”

Then, as I listened to the student degrade women - all the while trying to keep the revulsion I felt to a minimum - I couldn’t help but wonder why this student felt so comfortable as he sat there talking to me - his professor whom he barely knew - about his personal sex life. Nothing I did to re-direct the conversation toward something having to do with how to improve his dismal classroom performance worked.

In thinking about this conversation, I began to recognize that sitting alongside this student’s woman-hating diatribe was a deep, almost overwhelming, longing for a human connection that is meaningful and sustaining.

One of the main problems, however, is that he has mentally degenerated to a “hustler” state where meaningful relationships are especially difficult to establish and maintain. He doesn’t “trust” women, they are “hoodrats” who “betray” him, they “won’t act right,” yet he readily admits that neither does he. But my student couldn’t think analytically about how his behavior contributes to his inability to attain that which he so deeply desires.

Also troubling, I thought, is the way that sex in this culture - especially among people my student’s age - has become so pornographic in concept. So many young men attempt to experience mere sensation without any thought toward humanistic concerns. Sadly, many of them mistakenly think a so-called “no-strings-attached, feel-good” sexual relationship is exactly what they want.
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(Akiit.com) Lately I have seen alot of people out and about with no mate… Guess the dating scene is dull at this moment as I can remember those single days… Dressing up and hitting the local club… Now people are looking for a easy hook up and courtship is not the norm now… Nothing more beautiful then a dressed up woman with designer jewelry adorned around her neck… Let me stop, but I’m just saying relationships are few for this generation…

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