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Samuel L. Jackson

February 14, 2012 by · Comments Off on Samuel L. Jackson 

Samuel L. Jackson, According to the New York Post , skin color played a role in the 2008 election, at least for one prominent black man, actor Samuel L. Jackson.

“I voted for Barack because he was black,” Jackson said. Undoubtedly, Jackson’s confession will raise the ire of many Americans shouting terms like “reverse-racism.” I say good for Jackson.

Sweeping the issue of racism under the rug is pointless. We have to keep talking it through because our nation is still too fraught with racial injustice.

You’ll excuse me for using the term “black” instead of “African American.” There’s been nothing African about black Americans for more than 400 years. Our ancestors were quick to make sure of that and our school system still perpetuates that lost heritage.

You don’t believe it? Tell me then why it is that until 1849, when Harriett Tubman drew her first free breath, that black people had no names in our history books but existed only as nameless slaves? Do you remember the section about Askia the Great? Aezana of Axum? Yaa Asentewa? I sure don’t. We learned European history but never African.

We teach young Americans that Abraham Lincoln was a hero for his Emancipation Proclamation , but Lincoln didn’t draft it for the benefit of the slaves. He ordered it as punishment to rebel slave owners with holdings in the north. He turned out the slaves with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. They had no place to live, no money, no education, no heritage, no jobs and no prospects.

Whereas before Emancipation, slave owners said “Work for me or I wall beat you to death.” After Emancipation, the same men said “Work for me or I will starve you to death.” It’s not enough that Lincoln freed the slaves because in so doing, he didn’t also offer any of the blessings or responsibilities that come with freedom. Some hero.

Samuel L Jackson Obama

February 13, 2012 by · Comments Off on Samuel L Jackson Obama 

Samuel L Jackson Obama, Hollywood African American film star Samuel L. Jackson openly admits to voting for President Barack Obama, “because he’s black,” in the 2008 presidential election.
The “Pulp Fiction” star revealed his racially motivated reason for voting for the president in an interview with Ebony Magazine released Monday.

“”I voted for Barack because he was black. ‘Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people – because they look like them,” said Mr. Jackson in the interview.

The film star’s comments come during an election year in which the president is facing a tough Republican field of all white candidates, after the exit of pizza magnet Herman Cain.

His comments that Mr. Obama “looks” like him and that’s the reason he voted for him is certainly true.

Mr. Jackson never mentioned in the interview though that Mr. Obama is actually half white, as he was born to a white American Kansas native mother, and a African American black father originally from Kenya.

Mr. Jackson attended a Los Angeles fundraiser for Mr. Obama in early February.

Mr. Obama became the first African American president in 2008, and his election campaign featured racially charged moments where his chief competitor, Hilary Rodham Clinton called into question his relationship with radical black preacher Jeremiah Wright.

However, the president garnered 43 percent of white voters in 2008.

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