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To: SiouxPal who wrote (101367)	3/5/2007 9:39:38 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) of 361241

Obama Crazy Good in Selma huffingtonpost.com 03.05.2007 I have been to Selma several times with Mrs. Evelyn Gibson Lowery's Civil Rights Tour visiting Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma. She has erected monuments in the memory of Jimmy Lee Jackson, Viola Liuzzo, and other unsung heroes of the movement. The first Sunday in every March busloads travel to Selma to march across the Edmund Petus Bridge to commemorate Bloody Sunday. I am also really privileged to have Dr. Joseph Lowery as one of my mentors right here in Atlanta and to be a part of his Georgia Coalition for the Peoples' Agenda. Today I watched the speeches from Selma on TV and once again Dr. Lowery set the stage for history in the making. Dr. Lowery set it up by talking about the people in the civil rights movement who were "good crazy". Dr. Lowery usually calls us the Salt of the Earth and I didn't understand what he meant until today. These are the people that step up in the face of impossible odds and make it possible. The good crazy people really lead the way for everybody else. I did not want to be good crazy. Sometimes I saw many of these people and to me they just seemed crazy and way out of touch with my generation. I still marched and registered voters and talked to young people about out power to change education, poverty, and the environment but we have to make the change and that means we have to be crazy enough to think that it is possible. It is strange the way that people have been trying to take Obama's candidacy seriously but still do not really include him in the list of likely Democratic nominees but a new movement is growing and movements are not the same as campaigns. Movements go forward until the victory is won so in a way as long as Senator Obama is true to himself instead of becoming just another politician he will win. I like what he said about personal responsibility and knowing our history. I like that he stood in Selma and represented not just Black America but all of America. The story about his grandfather and how his parents got together and even how his father was not there but he still achieved great things by taking advantage of opportunities that others sacrificed to provide. If more young people understood this they would take education seriously. It is really crazy to think that our Justice Department would take a university to court for trying to make more phd's in math but for Obama to say it on national television says so much about his character and his values. Better math teachers in black schools would mean that more students would stay in school. Math is not my favorite subject but I have been taught that almost everything involves math it is a way to think and represent things. If you don't know math today it is impossible to be competitive and hard to just survive. Students that are not failing because they are stupid they are failing because they do not have good teachers at home and in school. That is why Senator Obama said that parents have to turn off the television. They have to step up but anybody that thinks that America does not need more competent Blacks in mathematics is just plain old fashioned crazy. I also liked the fact that Obama talked about his grandfather in Kenya. He could have just been an American who happened to have a Kenyan father but he embraced his heritage and his white mother from Kansas. He told the truth about his father not being in his life and how Black men can do better. This is another powerful message that I identify with on a personal level. I hope that Dr. Lowery told Senator Obama Hearts for Africa a mission to Kenya and Malawi this summer that Dr. Lowery's daughter is helping to coordinate. Now I am even more excited about traveling to Kenya. Obama is not just good for America he is good for the world. Politically the thought of President Barack Obama is crazy but throughout history God has been on the side of good crazy people. My homework assignment is Joshua.

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