Innocent Victims of an Obama Presidency by Marcia Segelstein
The good news out of Election 2008 is that all the predictions that racism would ultimately prevent Barack Obama being elected did not come true.
There is, however, a tragic irony that may well also occur as a result of this election. James Kushiner, publisher of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, writes about it on the magazine’s website:
“[W]hile blacks have risen from the indignities and injustice of slavery in which their bodies were sold and consumed as property, and have endured segregation and second-class citizen status and racial discrimination, and have now one of their own elected to the highest office in the land, this very president-elect, Barack Obama, will increase the death toll among black human beings if he fulfills his promise to enact a Freedom of Choice Act, which will serve as a firewall around Roe v. Wade, the Dred Scott decision of our times…Discrimination based on the color of one’s skin is not now the burning issue of our time…It’s that we’ve forgotten the value of human skin in the first place.”

This came to my attention this morning and I found it sadly true. The value of human skin. It sickens me that this and other moral issues were not taken into consideration by so many voters at this last election. It seemed the only thing people cared about was #1: money, and who could get them more of it, and #2: upsetting the status quo. Yes, it was past time for a black president, just as it is past time for a woman president. But neither of the choices hold the same moral standards as I do or place the same value on issues that I believe to be more pressing than gas prices and the stock exchange. The moral fibers that still have a loose grip on our society are quickly unraveling and we will soon be in a free fall that no man, black, white or purple, will be able to save us from. We must make a firm aboutface and return to the convictions of our forefathers, the steadfast faith that formed this great nation. God is the only safety net. He will catch us in His arms if we let Him. I pray that America will let Him.