President Bush supports the Olympics in China

Tommie Smith John Carlos, and Peter Norman, Mexico Olympics 1968



While President Geogre Bush, Jr and wife plan to take a six day tour of Africa, President Bush supports the Olympics being held in China.

"The trip -- Bush's second to the continent and his wife's fifth -- will largely focus on the United States' aid programs, which include initiatives to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and poverty," according to CNN."

So what is President Bush, Jr. up to now, I am thinking. First, the nooses now Africa after some soul music.



Well, it seems that Steven Spielberg has resigned as an advisor in the upcoming Olympics in Beijing, China, his "conscience would not allow him to continue working as an adviser to the event, " according to CNN.



The article continues, [t]he director's decision was part of growing criticism against China, targeting everything from its food safety to diplomatic policies abroad. Officials have repeatedly argued that the Olympics is a sporting event and should not be "politicized."

And guess what, President Bush had to say about Speilberg's decision,
"U.S. President Bush said Thursday that although he was concerned about the slow pace of international action in the Darfur region of Sudan, it wouldn't stop him from attending the Olympics."

I sure hope Kanye West does not hear about Bush's attitude. And to add fuel to the fire, Beijing Olympic Committee had this to say, according to CNN, "Linking the Darfur issue to the Olympic Games will not help to resolve this issue and is not in line with the Olympic Spirit that separates sports from politics," BOCOG said.

Now Prince Charles says he won't be attending the Olympics in China, but the British athletes who will be attending have been gagged on speaking out on China policies.


You would think that sports were more important than people. "Fighting between government-backed militia and rebels in Darfur has killed more than 200,000 people and left an estimated 2.5 million displaced since 2003," according to CNN.

Well, maybe business over human rights, "Sports is too important. It is too important to use it as a political instrument," said Milan Zver, the sports minister of Slovenia, which holds the EU presidency, according to CNN.


So, President Bush, Jr. trip to Africa is not just an humanitarian trip but could be a ploy to deflect from the fact that Bush, Jr. and family plan on not boycotting China's Olympic!!

Shame on Bush !! Kanye, Kanye.. call Dr. Tommie Smith and Dr. John Carlos.

Silence is not golden,.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his own words

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968

Click on class room resources at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute

I wrote an op-ed piece in 1997, after attending a Ku Klux Klan Rally, (perpetrating as a 1st amendment rally) that appeared in the Journal Gazette, with the following King quote,

It was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who wrote about, "finding your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain discrimination to your young child, while at the same time visualizing ominous clouds of inferiority forming in the child's mental sky, which starts the beginning of distortion in the child's personality in developing an unconscious bitterness toward the perpetrators of hatred."
Yup, "developing an unconscious bitterness toward the perpetrators of hatred, powerful words from the King," huh? Especially from discrimination.

Discrimination. Yes, dare to smile child, because it's coming. I could only protect you when you were close to my bosom. But one day it's going to hit you in the gut and what will you do? Oh I can put the balm for healing there for awhile, but one day it just won't work and what shall you do?

Stand. Stand and recognize it for what it is and from who it is coming from. Recognize it, stare it straight in the eye. Tilt your head back, chin up and give it a little smile. Now, shake the head ever so slightly, and utter these words, "oh no, uh-uh not me, you got your peoples mixed up, because I am not the one.

I am not the one. Because you, don't want me to give you a history lesson or two. Now walk with it, eye contact, forceful, chin tucked as you give an upward glance. Nope, wrong year..2007.

Leave the room..phone a friend..throw in a lifeline and call your mom. But you need to know it ain't the end of the world.

It had to do with beating the obstacles in getting over, seeing your way through, giving your testimony, starting over sometimes but never giving up. This road of racial oppression did not begin with us nor will it end with us. But we don't have to go backward as we travel this road left by our ancestors. This land is our land.