The Inuit: In 1888, Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen wrote the following about the Inuit People of Greenland: “They hold it atrocious to kill a fellow creature; therefore, war is in their eyes incomprehensible and repulsive, a thing for which their language has no word.” One encyclopedia supplements Nansen’s words by stating that the “European arrival [in Greenland] tremendously damaged the Inuit way of life, causing mass death through new diseases introduced by whalers and explorers, and enormous social disruptions caused by the distorting effect of Europeans' material wealth.”Africans: Though thought to be extinct as a distinct people now, there was an African ethnic group in and around the area of southern Africa that was completely stunned to learn that they would have to fight European explorers who were poised to take their land. Oral tradition from elders from nearby ethnic groups said that the idea of killing another human, even one that evoked curiosity because of his lack of pigmentation, was unimaginable. They were so depressingly disenchanted at the prospect that they killed themselves rather than kill the White invaders who they saw as fellow humans. With McCain parading his war record around, he could be sending the message that, not only is he a veteran who endured years in a POW camp, but that members of his White race has a string of historic supreme victories against virtually every other race, hence the expression: White Supremacy. Furthermore, after concessions are made if and when Obama ascends to the presidency, will he be able to handle the drama, the backlash of bitter White Republicans and others who hesitatingly and begrudgingly acknowledge him as Chief? The fact that he doesn’t have a war record shouldn’t be bothersome given the fact that the last two presidents, Bill Clinton and George Bush, never fought on any battlefield for the very country they served as President. What kind of America will Obama inherit should it become President? Author Begg, quoted at the outset, answers: “Your gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, is one of the most powerful in the US. You fight for the right to bear arms, in a country that is plagued by firearms violence: juvenile college killings, shopping-mall snipers, serial killers, Hollywood-style shoot-outs with the cops, gang violence from all your races—Latino Lords, Mexican Mafia, Crips and Bloods, Aryan Brotherhood, Ku Klux Klan; highest crime figures in the world, especially murder in your capital city. I’ve met soldiers now from almost every state in your country. Everyone I’ve spoken to knows someone who’s been shot or killed. Some have even been shot themselves. They’d have been far safer in Afghanistan.”I’m reminded of an interesting short poem I encountered the other day directed at Barack Obama. It goes something like this: ‘You sure you want to be President, Barack Obama? There’s going to be a whole lot of Drama. And believe me, you can’t get by being the Dali Lama. And even though she’s White, you can’t call your Mama.’ Oh what will be?...Oh what will be?...Stay tune, and see in Part 3…Amen.

Published in : Op-Ed, Dr. Firpo W. Carr