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Curator's note: This is a strange version of this previously-posted RW FWD:



> While I do not agree with everything she says, ?I think she presents an interesting point of view.?
> An interesting? Black woman's view:
>
> Anne Wortham is Black, an Associate Professor of
> Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing
> Visiting Scholar at Stanford University 's Hoover
> Institution.? She is a member of the American Sociological
> Association and the American Philosophical Association.? She
> has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and
> honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National
> Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Ed ucation.? In
> fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who
> were featured in Bill Moyer's television series, "A World of
> Ideas."? The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has
> been published in his book, A World of Ideas.? Dr. Wortham is
> author of The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of
> Black Race Consciousness which analyzes how race
> consciousness is transformed into political strategies and
> policy issues.? She has published numerous articles on the
> implications of individual rights for civil rights policy,
> and is currently writing a book on theories of social and
> cultural marginality.? Recently, she has published articles
> on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in
> education, the politics of victimization and the social and
> political impact of political correctness.? Shortly after an
> interview in 2004 she was awarded tenure.
>
> This article by her is another point of view......
>
>
> No He Can't
> by Anne Wortham
>
> Fellow Americans,
>
> Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated
> South.? I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron
> Paul's name as my choice for president.? Most importantly, I
> am not race conscious.? I do not require a black president to
> know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth
> living.? I do not require a black president to love the ideal
> of America .
>
> I cannot join you in your celebration.? I feel no
> elation.? There is no smile on my face.? I am not jumping
> with joy.? There are no tears of triumph in my eyes.? For
> such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to
> deny all that I know about the requirements of human
> flourishing and survival, - all that I know about the history
> of the United States of America, all that I know about
> American race relations, and all that I know about Barack
> Obama as a politician.? I would have to deny the nature of
> the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America .? Most
> importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain
> understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to
> serfdom that we have been on for over a century.? I would
> have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the
> success of a human life.? I would have to evade your
> rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your
> success and mine depend.? I would have to think it somehow
> rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in this
> country voted for a man because he looks like them (that
> blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they
> were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted
> for him because he doesn't look like them.? I would have to
> wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of
> people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill
> posts in his administration, - political intellectuals like
> my former colleagues at the Harvard University's Kennedy
> School of Government.
>
> I would have to believe that "fairness" is the
> equivalent of justice.? I would have to believe that man who
> asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new
> service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest.? I would
> have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity
> comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that
> he can will it into existence by the use of government force.
> I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of
> living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most
> productive and the generators of wealth.
>
> Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my
> consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying,
> cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting
> "Yes We Can!"? Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of
> all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists,
> editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that
> capitalism is dead - and no one, including especially Alan
> Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular
> version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to
> replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything
> remotely equivalent to capitalism.
>
> So you have made history, Americans.? You and your
> children have elected a black man to the office of the
> president of the United States , the wounded giant of the
> world.? The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is
> over - and that Fonda won.? Eugene McCarthy and George
> McGovern must be very happy men.? Jimmie Carter, too.? And
> the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like.
> The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel
> warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black
> person.? So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals,
> 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians.? Toast yourselves,
> Black America .? Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton , Yale,
> Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley.? You have elected not an
> individual who is qualified to be president, but a black man
> who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to - Do
> Something!? You now have someone who has picked up the baton
> of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.? But you have also
> foolishly traded your freedom and mine, - what little there
> is left, - for the chance to feel good.? There is nothing in
> me that can share your happy obliviousness.