SWEET MUSIC MAN REVISITED...

Last Sunday, October 16,2011, I picked up my Chicago Tribune and read Clarence Page's column condemning Herman Cain for declaring that black folks have been brainwashed. It seems that Clarence thinks Herman is a racist. Well gee whiz, to hear the present administration these days and most liberals, who isn't a racist. So, accordingly, I wrote a letter to Mr. Page and let him know how one reader felt about his comments. The following is the letter.

Dear Mr. Page,

After reading your column for Sunday, October 16, I was amazed at how little progressive, elite blacks, like yourself, understand the real plight of the black community. Mr.Cain's remarks about brainwashing, in regard to that manipulated community, make all the sense in the world. It was from that community, which Mr. Cain understands all to well, that Mr. Cain, just as you did, escaped the philosophy of progressive passiveness to the human condition of the weakness for "something for nothing."

In criticizing Mr. Cain you have revealed your need, as a black man, to suckle at the teet of the white progressive ruling elite and reduced yourself to using the race card to marginalize a black conservative in the hope of preserving some exalted position among those elites. Mr. Cains remarks are only emphasizing that which everybody knows.

Since 1964 and the the Great Society, the unintended consequence of that program has been to enslave a few generations of the black community, and surely among others, to that philosophy of "something for nothing" in exchange for the vote. And that surely is what the democratic party gets. Poverty has been reduced by a miniscule amount. The outcry of racism when a common sense call for drug testing in return for welfare is shouted down, we know that those demands are nothing more than avoiding the rule of accountability. Even you, in the raising of your own children would demand much more.

There was a song recorded by Kenny Rogers entitled ' Sweet Music Man " and a line in the lyrics went like this:

" You're a hell of a singer but a broken man
And you surround yourself with people who demand
So little of you.

The question arises, why do you demand so little of your own people ?