.....BARACK OBAMA'S LESSON OF HUMAN LEADERSHIP AMONG HUMANITY OF INFINITE DIVERSITY ORDAINED BY THE CREATOR..... (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)   US President Barack Obama speaks on education reform at the National Urban League 100th Anniversary Convention at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, July 29, 2010. Drawing on personal experience, Mr. Obama went the furthest he has yet gone to underscore how much education and race are as inseparable now as they were when the Supreme Court ordered the formal desegregation of public schools in 1954. Mr. Obama said:  “African American students trail not only almost every other developed nation abroad, but they badly trail their white classmates here at home – an achievement gap that is widening the income gap between black and white, between rich and poor,” In 2008 as a candidate for president, Mr. Obama promised to change the racial narrative: “We face a choice in this country. We can tackle race only as a spectacle,” he explained then. Or “we can come together and say, ‘Not this time.’” .....AND IN 2010 PRESIDENT OBAMA CONTINUES ON RACE RELATIONS IN USA....   President Obama, whose mother was white and father was a Kenyan student in USA, also said the following on the USA ABC TV show The View on Thursday, July 29, 2010:  (President Obama's appearance on ABC's The View drew the largest audience in the ABC show’s history: 6.59 million viewers, according to Nielsen. To put this in relative perspective, Obama had a role in the previous high audience, 6.17 million, for the ABC TV program on the morning after he was elected president in 2008. Majority of the audiences of The View are women.) “I realized that if the world saw me as African American, then that wasn’t something that I needed to run away from. That’s something I could go ahead and embrace,” The truth  is that African Americans “are sort of a mongrel people. I mean, we’re all mixed up.” (American blacks, most of whom are well versed in the story of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson’s slave and purported bedmate, knew exactly what “mongrel” meant. Mongrel refers to mixed ancestry in botany and animal kingdom.. Among humans, mongrel and mongrelize are terms for the mixing of "races", known as miscegenation )  “That’s actually true for white America as well, but we just know more about it.   PVAF is publishing today's news story because of its opening up by President Obama of  "the historical unspeakable race talk during colonial times" in the race relations among the entire humanity of all nations on this planet earth.... As per the article on Wikipedia on Race Relations what President Obama is talking about happening in USA is as follows: "One of the most important social psychological findings concerning race relations is that members of stereotyped groups internalize those stereotypes and thus suffer a wide range of harmful consequences. For example, in a phenomenon called stereotype threat, members of racial and ethnic groups that are stereotyped as scoring poorly on tests will perform poorer on those tests if they are reminded of this stereotype. The effect is so strong that even simply asking the test-taker to state her or his race before taking the test (such is by bubbling in "African American" on a multiple choice question) will significantly alter test performance. " The above is true in many nations of the world today where racial/tribal/caste/socio-economical  divisions exists..... The PVAF life philosophy of making one's tomorrow happier than today is not possible without all humans understanding the naturally ordained diversity of humanity by the Creator...And prayfully someone like President Obama and the Americans of USA will help to foster that understanding for harmonious co-existence in the current humanity for its prosperity and progressive evolution.... Please click on the next line to read the entire text of today's news story.....and also listen to the famous speech of Presidential Candidate Obama on March 18, 2008 as a result of Reverend Wright's controversial race related speeches.....

.....TODAY'S NEW STORY A HOPE FOR HUMANITY....

Obama puts race card /> face up on the table (From: Canadian Globe and Mail: July 30, 2010: By By Konrad Yakabuski, Washington DC, USA)   (Konrad Yakabuski (kyakabushki@globeandmail.com) is The Globe and Mail's chief U.S. political writer, based in Washington. He covers all aspects of the American political scene, including relevant social and cultural issues. Prior to joining the Washington bureau in 2009, Mr. Yakabuski was based in The Globe's Montreal bureau and wrote on Quebec business, politics and culture for more than a decade. He previously worked as a political reporter at Le Devoir. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from McGill University and a Master of Science in Business Administration degree from the University of British Columbia.)

It may have been fleeting – one day out of the 555 that Barack Obama has occupied the White House – but Americans finally got a chance to see what it really means to have a black president. Not a president who happens to be black, as his White House handlers, and he himself, usually prefer to portray the first African American to sit in the Oval Office, as if his race hardly mattered. Rather, a commander-in-chief ready to draw on his unique personal experience and who uses his bully pulpit to force Americans to face up to their enduring racial divide and the gaping inequalities it engenders. Maybe it took the women of The View to put him in his comfort zone. Or maybe it took a chance to talk to black leaders fearful that his market-driven education reforms will somehow disadvantage the very minorities they are meant to help. Whatever the reason, on Thursday, Americans saw their black President as, well, exactly that. “I realized that if the world saw me as African American, then that wasn’t something that I needed to run away from. That’s something I could go ahead and embrace,” Mr. Obama, whose mother was white, said on The View. The truth, he continued, is that African Americans “are sort of a mongrel people. I mean, we’re all mixed up.” American blacks, most of whom are well versed in the story of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson’s slave and purported bedmate, knew exactly what “mongrel” meant.  “That’s actually true for white America as well, but we just know more about it.” At the National Urban League conference in Washington, Mr. Obama went the furthest he has yet gone to underscore how much education and race are as inseparable now as they were when the Supreme Court ordered the formal desegregation of public schools in 1954.r />  “African American students trail not only almost every other developed nation abroad, but they badly trail their white classmates here at home – an achievement gap that is widening the income gap between black and white, between rich and poor,” he said. Part of the President’s solution is his $4.3-billion Race to the Top competition, which financially rewards states that clear the way for charter schools and fire public-school teachers who fail to raise student test scores. Some black leaders fear that minority-dominated schools will lose out under the competitive scheme.br /> “Let me tell you, what’s not working for black kids and Hispanic kids and Native American kids across the country is the status quo,” Mr. Obama countered. “That’s why we’re challenging states to turn around our 5,000 lowest-performing schools. And I don’t think it’s any secret that most of those are serving African American or Hispanic kids.” PoPolicies that reduce racial inequality are important, of course. But so is talking about the need for them. And Ms. Sherrod is not alone in thinking the President needs to do more of it.

““Young African Americans, young whites, too, we’ve done such a job of trying to be mainstream that we push things under the rug that we need to talk about,” she said Thursday, just after announcing she intends to sue blogger Andrew Breitbart and inviting Mr. Obama to her home in southwest Georgia. “I need to take him around and show him some of that history.” It seemed good and natural for the first black president to talk this way. So, why had he been holding back for so long? /> As a candidate for president, Mr. Obama promised to change the racial narrative. “We face a choice in this country. We can tackle race only as a spectacle,” he explained then. Or “we can come together and say, ‘Not this time.’” But for the first 554 days after Mr. Obama’s inauguration, the “race issue” was handled as exactly that: a sideshow. Just as it was when Rodney King’s 1991 beating by Los Angeles police officers set off race riots or when Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s incendiary “God damn America” talk prompted candidate Obama to give his 2008 speech on race in the first place. The President’s mishandling of the Henry Louis Gates Jr. affair a year ago – he accused police in Cambridge, Mass., of acting “stupidly” in arresting the black Harvard professor while he was entering his own house – only thrust Mr. Obama deeper into his shell on race. Until the next spectacle. Last week, the administration scrambled to fire Shirley Sherrod, a black Agriculture Department employee, when an excerpt from a March speech she made was posted on the Internet by a conservative blogger known for politically opportunistic provocation. The White House succumbed to the same rush to judgment as Fox News and ended up with egg on its face. Clearly, tiptoeing around the race issue to avoid feeding into right-wing depictions of Mr. Obama as bent on revenge against whites, or to avoid exacerbating so-called “white anxiety,” had not worked. Perhaps his handlers have finally realized that and decided to let Mr. Obama be himself. Those who expected the President to be true to his Philadelphia speech can only hope. Ronald Jackson, head of the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois, suggested that Mr. Obama does not have to talk about racial inequality in order to correct its sinister consequences. Through health-care reform, education reform and other policies, Mr. Obama is methodically tackling the “structural inequalities” responsible for the pervasive racial gap. Another example of that came on Wednesday, when Congress – at Mr. Obama’s behest – erased a Reagan-era law under which those convicted of crack cocaine possession were given the same mandatory prison sentence as someone convicted for possessing 100 times the amount in powder cocaine. Crack is a drug of poor blacks; powdered cocaine is largely the preserve of rich whites. SheShe could have added: “To get beyond it.”

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