Now, for those that actually read my piece on equal opportunity on the You Served blog, I found this little gem from Anne Wortham. Ms. Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University, the same univerity firing professors for mentioning intelligent design. She recently authored a piece titled “No He Can’t” that I think you’ll all be interested.

Now, you may ask why I bring all this race and racism stuff up to begin with. As I said on You Served, I didn’t grow up knowing about or caring about the color of people’s skin. I joined the Army to preserve a way of life that I’m afraid is about to be completely destroyed. It wasn’t until I really joined the Army that I even paid any attention to it. And only then because it was forced fed into me by the military. I grew up in a diverse environment filled with all different nationalities and “races”. And now, it’s being forcefed to us by the MSM and Obama’s own people. It is with that in mind that I present to you Anne Wortham’s piece:

Fellow Americans,

Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul’s name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America .

I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival – all that I know about the history of the United States of America, all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the “change” that Obama asserts has come to America . Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared “progressive” whites who voted for him because he doesn’t look like them. I would have to wipe mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration – political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

I would have to believe that “fairness” is the equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that man who asks me to “go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice” is speaking in my interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the “bottom up,” and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.

Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting “Yes We Can!” Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead – and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.

So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a black man to the office of the president of the United States , the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over – and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black person. So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America . Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton , Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to – Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine – what little there is left – for the chance to feel good. There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.

I was listening to Rush Limbaugh yesterday as I happened to be driving to a meeting when a man from Houston called in. A.J. is a self-described “black” man and I don’t think I’ve ever heard Rush so silent.

After the pleasantries, A.J. launched right into it .

A.J.: Happy New Year and all that. But, Rush, let me tell you something, as a black man, I feel we’ve been bamboozled by the media and by Obama. There’s no way in the world — black folks are never going to wake up and smell the coffee. Come on. You don’t know nothing about the man. I did polls of my own and asked black folk, “What do you know about this man?”

He changed all the promises pretty much what he told and said he gonna do. I wanna know, what are you going to do now that you should have been doing in the first place?

RUSH: It doesn’t matter.

A.J.: This is my problem, Rush. Why is it such that you gonna change now what you should have been doing already to get yourself outta there. And, Rush, infrastructure. I thought infrastructure is like the raggly houses in the black neighborhoods, build some stores in the raggly neighborhood, get them raggly burnt out — in Detroit it’s ridiculous. It’s unimaginable. Rush, I thought economics 101 was your state and your mayor take care of your city and they are the keepers of each city and state. Federal government comes in last! You don’t even need the federal government! Why do we have a governor and a mayor if you can’t bring business into your city to make jobs for your people? Come on, Rush, it’s economics 101. When is the black vote going to wake up and smell the coffee? You in poverty! Look at your neighborhood! Come on, people, get the jobs back in there. If Obama can do that, he will make me proud. Until somebody get in the black neighborhood and get these burned out houses fixed up, get these kids to lifting their pants off their butts and — I’m so sick of it, Rush, and how can another group of people come in our country and get better and do better than what you should have been doing? I don’t get it!

We’ve been here 500 years, and the Mexicans and the Chinas and the Arabs and the Indians can come over here and their kids do better than ours. Something is wrong with this picture. Black folk better wake up and they better look at the words this man is talking ’cause, Rush, I’m going to tell you something, we not in no depression. The media, all of them are pieces of crap. And, Rush, I’m telling you if America don’t wake up the sovereignty our country is gone. I’m sorry, black, white, green or red, we not going to have a country, man. I’m sorry to ramble, Rush, on your birthday. I’m so sorry, sir. But somebody gotta wake the black people up! The preachers not doing it; the churches are getting empty; the kids are running wild, and everybody is scared to put the pressure on the blacks. I’m sick of the way we raise them. You go to jail if you hit ‘em. Rush, what are you going to do when they kill somebody and they in jail? Well, I shoulda did this. Rush, I’m tired of American sovereignty being gone. We got to get back to raising these kids the right way, put some on that butt, stop sitting them in the corner, stop being soft. I’m sick of it. Where is America? What is wrong with us? We are turning into one of these socialized countries. We got to stop it, Rush. And we need you all help, man. This is unbelievable. I’m so sorry, sir. I’m sorry.

I’m not a 24/7 subscriber, so I can’t access the audio, but if you are, you should go in and actually listen to A.J. speak so passionately. We’ve been sold a bill of goods and it’s too late to wake up from it.