I believe the respected Brother HumbleWun has not used the word dulplicity. We need to be aware that is the way of politicians..they mean us little good.
I understand your point and I am not a fan of politics for that very reason, but understand that each person out of every group is not the same. It is often the case where a few bad people can give the group a bad name, and politics is certainly like that, but is that blanket generalizing of an entire group right? As an African-American, I am often the victim of exactly such generalizing where people will expect me to act like the poorly characterized black people they see on television. This is wrong. Get to know me and only then come to your conclusion. Don't base how you will treat me on what someone I don't even know did.
Politicians are the same. They are individuals who have a job to do. I will judge the individual on his tract recond, how he votes and the reasons for why he voted that way. How would you feel if I told everyone that you would act a certain way based on the reputation of a group that you worked with but did not believe in some individual member's practices? Understand that as the very first truly possible African-American U.S. President, I have an interest in the career of Barack Obama that I have never had for any other politician. Obama made me want to learn about US politics and I study both it and Obama's life and history. Based on what I have learned about him in my study... I trust him. As president I believe he will not make the same types of decisions his predecessors made and he will rule on the side of Right and Justice both for his nation and in relationships with other heads of state. Of course it is possible that he may prove me wrong, but based on what I have learned thus far, I don't think he will.
Brother MRasheed if you have time on your hands please read the posts by several members including me on politics and Muslims in the US.
Yes, I am already quite aware of those things, thank you.
We live in the here and the now. We need to be cognizant of the forces around us. We need to know who they are and how they operate. The media mixes the good with the bad..it leads to confusion.
This is exactly why it is important to do your own research on an individual and not sweep him into a big pile of
"Oh, you know how those people are" type of stereotypes. That is evil to judge the one based on a group. Even Malcolm X didn't do that. He was very aware of the wrongs that are done to his people, but he still treated each individual caucasian he encountered with respect, and gave them the opportunity to do the right thing on a direct, one-on-one personal basis.
Barack Obama is not my enemy.
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