We-e-e-e-ell, you know -- I don't know -- I have a little different take on this RNC Chair Michael Steele thing:  It's another one of those "Put-the-Black-Man-in Charge-to-Clean-up-the-Mess" deals.  I get so tired of that.  Look back as far as when Eleanor Holmes Norton was head of the EEOC.  There was such a heavy backlog of cases submitted by Black people for the injustices that occurred to them, that she did what no Caucasian Chairperson had the dubious "courage" to do:  Dismiss all the old backlog and just left the most recent cases to act upon.  I thought sadly of all those minorities who had waited all those years for reparation of the wrongs done to them: and for someone of their own race to "do them in" was unconscionable to me.  In fact, even to this day I cannot forgive her for it and hold all her words in circumspect.

Then there was the then-newly elected Black Mayor of Philadelphia some time in the past who allowed the performance of an act that no Caucasian former mayor had the nerve to do:  dropped the bunker on the MOVE organization home, while destroying several others and killing women, children and the elderly.  Another example of dumping the Black man in to do your dirty work only when you [whites] do not have the audacity to do so.

I need not pull out any other examples from the mothballs:  you get my point.  Heck, in fact that is why I originally supported Hillary instead of Barak.  I'm tired of the Black Man being used to "clean up the white man's mess."  And George Bush has certainly left this country at its nadyr, and why shouldn't Miss Thang take the brunt of the responsibility to "clean house" and then let the Black Man step in and "Ease on down the road" to victory.   Those were my original thoughts until I could no longer abide that woman's duplicity.  So early on I had to switch over to the Obama steamroller and just had to resort to "praying" his way through on a daily basis.  So even now I resent any of the Blacklash thrown his way when he is attacking an almost insurmountable task. 

That then is my take on the Michael Steele situation.  The RNP could only finally allow a Black man at the helm when it found itself at its lowest point.  And although I find that reluctantly I admire Steele for his boldness to "step into this known trap,"  I can think only more lowly of his party when they allow the "Gold-Dust" twins, Rush and Chaney (yeah, I'm aware of the irony) to wreck havoc with their own party chairperson -- something I do not believe they would ever think to do if he were of their own pigment-persuasion.  So I find myself feeling very sorry for him and hope he can continue to withstand the self-inflicted pain from his own party.  What we Black people must endure!

                                         Mliza

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