WHY PRESIDENT OBAMA SHOULD NOT SPEAK OUT IN THE IRANIAN DISPUTED ELECTION

 

By Kenny Zulu Whitmore

 

My people, for the last three weeks there has been a huge media-blitz orchestrated by top republicans and a few conservatives within the democratic party, who have criticized president Obama for not speaking out against the Iranian government for its crack down on Iranians for protesting the outcome of their June 2009 presidential election.

            President Obama has said he feels that people around the world have a right to peacefully assemble. The Republicans say a stronger criticism is wanted. Why? And how would it benefit Iran to have president Obama interject him self in the Iranian political dispute?

            What if the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khomenei and the Iranian people had an all out media-blitz urging the American citizen to take the streets and protest against disputed presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000? No doubt there would have been cries for meddling and requests to bomb Iran.

            Personally I think the Republicans should ask the president to speak out against America’s police force and its’ pre occupation with the African-American and Latino communities, their excitable appetite to randomly murder women and men with “I thought I saw a gun!” Did Oscar Grant have a gun when the police murdered him in California? Did Terrance Mearis, Amadou Diallo, Annette Gareira or Sean Bell in New York have a gun??

Why don’t they get President Obama to speak out against 3 million American citizens locked up, of which 90 % are African Americans and Latinos. Why don’t they let Obama speak out on America’s failing education system, on politician’s main focus to take away funds needed for education, allocating it into incarceration. Let the ‘conservative party” ask the president to speak out against the huge and ever growing homeless population in this land of milk and honey. Let Obama restore the health care system in this country, which is so vital to millions of Americans who cannot afford to get sick,

 

INSTEAD OF HAVING HIM MEDDLE IN THE IRANIAN SYSTEM, LET HIM FIX HIS OWN HOUSE FIRST!!

 

If you want peace, fight for justice.

In solidarity, Zulu.