Jan 21 2009
The New Black America
Is America now trying to relate to black people or is it just me? From the January 20th 2009 Inauguration being the most political celebration filled with many black people to the National Cathedral Prayer Service the next day, it is very funny or awkward to see how white political America is trying to show that they are “down with the people”. I am watching the “prayer” service right now as I write and I am seeing how hard this “church” which barely had black people in their congregation before Obama is trying to so hard impress him by that awesome performance by a group of African American kids and a prayer earlier by an an African American Reverend. I can say it looks ok to some people but it looks very interesting to me. Interesting because I am niether impressed nor irritated. The welcome note had excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr., about how he preached from that same pulpit 25 yrs ago and so on, I wish I could have counted how many times Martin Luther King Jr. was mentioned, it was so strange to me that everyone felt like they needed to use a black man to convince or relate to a black man for some reason whatsoever . It seemed to me that they are very aware that Obama may not choose to feel at home with their white elitists’ “church”.
