Muslim Apple

This is an editorial by my father Dr. F. Nwabueze Okoye that was published in the Democrat and Chronicle in response to an editorial by Cal Thomas entitled “Typical” or “Race Divide Can Be Bridged“.

The most charitable thing that can be said about “Race divide can be bridged” (Cal Thomas column, March 26) is that it does not inform. Readers would not know that so-called white men have had affirmative action for the longest period in this land.

Or that the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action that was begun during Richard Nixon’s administration are Euro-American females rather than African Americans. Or that slavery legally ended in the United States on Dec. 18, 1865.

Thomas accepts as gospel truth professor Henry Louis Gates’ claim that slavery USA “was more about economics than race.” The writings of colonial Americans who waged a pamphleteering war with Englishmen in England, between 1760 and 1776, because they dreaded being on a footing od equality with the Africans in their midst, reveal that the Harvard University don is mistaken.

The George Washingtons and the John Adamses made their pitch for equality with Englishmen in England by insisting that only Africans deserve being in chains! Racial physical characteristics were, for these men, the things that mattered in determining who is and who is not a slave. Read more »

The Obama campaign has apologized to two Muslim women excluded by campagin volunteers from appearing on stage at a campaign event this week at Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena so that the candidate would not be photographed with supporters that are visibly identifiable as Muslim.

The next day, Obama did appear in this photo-op at a community college with a hijabi. Disappointing to say the least.

Politico: Muslims Barred from Picture at Obama Event

Even though these incidents are being blamed on misinformed campaign volunteers, it reminds me of the coolly political way he threw the Rev. Jeremiah Wright “under the bus” and his church when it became politically inconvenient for him and gives me pause to think what the next campaign issue or policy will get the same treatment but given the alternatives, I’m still not voting for McCain or Barr.

Mildred Loving of the Virginia vs. Loving case fame died last week Friday. In 1958, she married her white sweetheart Richard in Washington DC since interracial marriage was illegal in their home state of Virginia. Virginia’s tourism motto is “Virginia is for Lovers” and the Lovings helped make that a little truer for interracial couples.

Mildred Jeter Loving, 68, a black woman whose refusal to accept Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1967 that struck down similar laws across the country, died of pneumonia Friday at her home in Milford, Va.

Washington Post: Quiet Va. Wife Ended Interracial Marriage Ban

Martin Luther King Jr. on interracial marriage:

Races do not fall in love and get married. Individuals fall in love and get married. Why don’t you want your fellow men and women, your fellow Americans to be happy? Why do you attack them? Why do you want to destroy the love they hold in their hearts? Why do you want to crush their hopes, their dreams, their longings, their aspirations? We are talking about human beings, people like you, people want to get married, buy house, and spend their lives with the one they love. They have done no wrong.”

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