Comments on: An Open Letter to Travis Smiley [LinkUp] http://www.thoughtremixer.com/an-open-letter-to-travis-smiley-linkup/ Remixing Thoughts Daily... Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Saundra Spencer http://www.thoughtremixer.com/an-open-letter-to-travis-smiley-linkup/comment-page-1/#comment-263 Saundra Spencer Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:51:34 +0000 http://www.life-remixed.com/2008/02/16/an-open-letter-to-travis-smiley-linkup/#comment-263 Travis, I am sorry for all the heat that you are getting at this time I feel you have a right to ask questions and expect him to show for black events that are on national television since he is running as a blackman for President. I would think that he would have appeared if nothing else, but to tell us how he is going to help all people and make that the stage to show us how we will all come togather. My father use to say praise the bridge that carries you across the safest, so he has serveral bridges, address all of them. I don't feel that you, Martin Luther, Malcom X, Adam Clayton Powell, Al Sharpton,Harriett Tubman and all the other's that went before him are small fish. I want to know how did we forget everybody and jump over to Obama and how did he get more influential that the other black senator's that have worked hard for years and helped us.I am concerned, we need to be very careful how we go about this. Travis keep doing what your doing.(somebody has to). Travis, I am sorry for all the heat that you are getting at this time I feel you have a right to ask questions and expect him to show for black events that are on national television since he is running as a blackman for President. I would think that he would have appeared if nothing else, but to tell us how he is going to help all people and make that the stage to show us how we will all come togather. My father use to say praise the bridge that carries you across the safest, so he has serveral bridges, address all of them. I don’t feel that you, Martin Luther, Malcom X, Adam Clayton Powell, Al Sharpton,Harriett Tubman and all the other’s that went before him are small fish. I want to know how did we forget everybody and jump over to Obama and how did he get more influential that the other black senator’s that have worked hard for years and helped us.I am concerned, we need to be very careful how we go about this. Travis keep doing what your doing.(somebody has to).

]]> By: SimplyPut http://www.thoughtremixer.com/an-open-letter-to-travis-smiley-linkup/comment-page-1/#comment-206 SimplyPut Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:57:51 +0000 http://www.life-remixed.com/2008/02/16/an-open-letter-to-travis-smiley-linkup/#comment-206 You never invite your battleship up the river. Your gathering was fit for smaller gunboats such as yourself. Obama is fighting for all Americans. If he becomes president, that is when you present your issues and concerns to him. His job then will be to listen and address not only yours, but those concerns that are important to all Americans. As an African American president, there is a strong possibility that some African American issues that were ignored in the past might just receive a little more attention. Tavis, I listen to you often, I love you bro and what you try to do for the black community, However, I must say that you are small fish and though inspirational, definitely not influential. At least, not beyond the audience of your syndications. Know your boundaries bro. You never invite your battleship up the river. Your gathering was fit for smaller gunboats such as yourself. Obama is fighting for all Americans. If he becomes president, that is when you present your issues and concerns to him. His job then will be to listen and address not only yours, but those concerns that are important to all Americans. As an African American president, there is a strong possibility that some African American issues that were ignored in the past might just receive a little more attention. Tavis, I listen to you often, I love you bro and what you try to do for the black community, However, I must say that you are small fish and though inspirational, definitely not influential. At least, not beyond the audience of your syndications. Know your boundaries bro.

]]> By: Raible http://www.thoughtremixer.com/an-open-letter-to-travis-smiley-linkup/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Raible Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:42:14 +0000 http://www.life-remixed.com/2008/02/16/an-open-letter-to-travis-smiley-linkup/#comment-203 I like Tavis, but this rant of his seems to come out of left field. Tavis seems to be saying: "Stop trying to be the most powerful man on Earth, and come to a rally in Louisiana instead. Don't try to become someone who can make real change, instead come to a forum where we just scream about the fact nobody is making real change." If you care about civil rights (and obviously Tavis does), then you know Barack's election will be the most significant advancement in civil rights since the end of segregation and Jim Crow. Let me be clear, electing Barack will not end racism. That ugly shit will go on in this country for decades after Barack is long gone, because racism is hatred, and there will always be people in America who choose hatred first - black and white. But electing Barack will show other black leaders that they *can* assume power in our system. If that comes to pass, my faith in the system has vastly improved, and I know others will feel the same way. That's significant. It won't be a perfect world just because Barack got elected, but it will be a brighter one,...a world one step closer to what the civil rights movement was all about in the first place. I like Tavis, but this rant of his seems to come out of left field.

Tavis seems to be saying:

“Stop trying to be the most powerful man on Earth, and come to a rally in Louisiana instead. Don’t try to become someone who can make real change, instead come to a forum where we just scream about the fact nobody is making real change.”

If you care about civil rights (and obviously Tavis does), then you know Barack’s election will be the most significant advancement in civil rights since the end of segregation and Jim Crow.

Let me be clear, electing Barack will not end racism. That ugly shit will go on in this country for decades after Barack is long gone, because racism is hatred, and there will always be people in America who choose hatred first – black and white.

But electing Barack will show other black leaders that they *can* assume power in our system. If that comes to pass, my faith in the system has vastly improved, and I know others will feel the same way. That’s significant. It won’t be a perfect world just because Barack got elected, but it will be a brighter one,…a world one step closer to what the civil rights movement was all about in the first place.

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