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Z. Dwight Billingsly

BY Z. DWIGHT BILLINGSLY

10/23/2008

The headlines you see over these columns are written by editors, but if I were writing this one, I'd call it "Family Secrets." Having attended Yale University and Harvard Business School, I spend a lot of time around blacks who went to Ivy League schools and sit around and congratulate themselves on being the "chosen" ones. I believe many of these people would be dangerous for America if they were to gain political power.

Many of the black people I spend time with don't love America, despite the fact that they have benefited from America's blessings. I have been in million-dollar homes in which I've listened to black elites talk down about America. I've heard them go on and on about slavery, about racism, about how black people have been held down and held back. They see nothing great about America or in how it has overcome that past.

How can that be, you ask, when they have taken advantage of the political system to gain power? I believe they hate America and hate what America stands for. They believe in the United Nations and a world in which America is no better than any other nation.

Barack Obama claims to represent change, and he does. But the change he stands for is change in the worst way. Obama represents change from American exceptionialism to America as just another nation. He represents change from America as a leader of the free world to America as just a peer with the likes of France or Germany. I also am deeply concerned by Obama's past associations with admitted 1960s terrorist William Ayers, convicted Chicago felon Tony Rezko and the voter-registration-fraud specialists of ACORN. <SCRIPT language='JavaScript1.1' SRC="https://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N4976.MNP/B3160449.21;abr=!ie;sz=160x600;click0=https://oascentral.stltoday.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/www.stltoday.com/news/columnists/L32/1651855133/Frame1/Postnet/VisionServGEOMisc160x600-092908/VisionServGEOMisc300x250-071608dc10380631.html/5956692f75556859574e414143343839?;ord=1651855133?" > </SCRIPT>

I told you in my previous column that when I was at Martha's Vineyard this summer I didn't really learn anything that might be useful in defeating Obama. What I did hear at a party of black people was a lot of talk about how it's "our time" and about "white guilt." I am very concerned about who Obama would bring into his cabinet and who would be running the government.

These black elites do not respect America. America is special, truly exceptional. I don't think that Obama believes that about America.

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Barack Obama claims to represent change, and he does. But the change he stands for is change in the worst way

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