After many months of laws designed to obstruct voting and
billions spent on maintaining a racist media narrative, President Obama is re-elected
as president of the United States of America.
The response from the state of Mississippi
to this historic re-election: 400 students at Ole Miss hold a protest over the
results of the election. I had two
thoughts: Thanks students at Ole Miss for enhancing the image of Mississippi
in not only local and national news but in international news as well. The GOP accomplished its goal to take back
this nation. We were taken back to a
time before the 1960’s. When will we get
“it” in Mississippi?
The” it” we need to get in Mississippi is part of my takeaways from this election.
Our image in the international media does matter. The chances of our children working outside
of the United States
increases as companies continue to grow in being multi-national corporations
(e.g. Wal-Mart) the protest of the election by 400 students at Ole Miss makes
about as much sense as the protest of James Meredith being a student at Ole
Miss. President Obama’s election simply
says the vote of Americans is not for sale and nor will it be denied. Yet, these students at one of Mississippi’s
premier universities protested?
The writing has been on the wall for several years. Mississippians need to understand the
writing. President Obama won the
election twice without the South. We
mute our voices in the political discourse by allowing a minority of our
population to frame our image. We must become
a more informed voting population in Mississippi
as well as in the South in general. We
must allow race to be less of a factor when voting.
When people, on public assistance, vote for the person who runs
on the policy to reduce public benefits, racism or an uninformed populace is
the root of such voting. Either option
is losing for the South and Mississippi. When independent living Southerners are
willing to become dependent on corporations for their lives and livelihoods it is
worrisome. At some point the
interdependency of government, has become a bad idea in the South. Why have we forgotten that in America,
we the humans are the government not corporations?
During my travels around Mississippi
in 2011, I observed a disturbing trend amongst all of the people, Americans
desiring not to be involved in the function of our government. These same people bemoan the laws designed to
improve the finances of corporations while decimating household finances. These people would say they are not experts
or had enough money to be more involved.
If we continue to allow the “experts” to make decisions we will soon
have in America
a monarchy of corporate heirs. It is
time we become engaged in the political process in America.
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