Michael Bresciani: You can't make history without a real homie

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Rev. Michael Bresciani serves up some food for thought at Renew America:

While we can thank God we finally have crossed into post racist times with our first black President it just doesn't seem like he is one of us. Perhaps he is not even one of our own blacks like Martin Luther King who left a legacy instead of a trail of doubt and disdain. King fought for America not against it and proved in so doing that black Americans have the same grit as any of our best American heroes, innovators, statesmen, scientist, preachers and politicians.

He does not exude the intense convictions and patriotism of Alan Keyes or the political clarity of author Kevin Jackson. He calls on science to resolve problems in the environment and our system of education but he lacks the natural savvy of sable genius, Benjamin Bannecker.

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Will history adjust itself or will we tinker with it once again. It seems a sure bet that those who pull the levers in 2010 will not just be tinkering but rather, they will be sending out the message that America still has a great deal of pride and will not be swept away by the flights of fancy produced by someone who can't even prove he has homey status.

In 2012 America may make different choices as well. It is then we might try to alter history once again with someone who has a love for America, a strong faith in God and the Bible, integrity and honesty, and the ability to weed through differences between right and wrong that Americans have nurtured so long, but of late have forgotten.

We may elect someone who would never have been considered in times past, someone whose time has come. That sounds a lot like Sarah Palin to me. Maybe it's time for a Madam President to shake and shape American history. That's change we really can believe in. If history has proven anything it is that you can make history with an authentic homie or a good old fashioned American woman.

Be it male or female, or from a troubled inner city ghetto or frozen tundra, African American or Native American, we are long past the days when this matters at all. We have not gone past the place where we want someone who doesn't fervently love this nation and respect its people.

Read the rev's full op-ed here.

h/t: roy y

- JP