Today Is My Birthday. Yes, Thank You All For The Birthday Wishes.

Yes, really, thank you all.

Comments On [POTUS Barack Obama[,] By Mike Huckabee And] Me Were Plain Racist.

Comments on Obama, me were plain racist

After listening to Mike Huckabee lie about President Barack Obama “living in Kenya with his father and grandfather and hating America,” I feel compelled to condemn this form of covert racism.

It is true many despise our president because of his skin color. I don’t know if Huckabee is one of them; I do know he’s another political opportunist of the worst kind. Insisting the president is a Kenyan and un-American, while conveniently failing to mention his mother is a white Kansan, is designed for maximum racist effect.

People like Huckabee use race as a dagger to maim others, and mentioning one’s African ancestry seems to do the trick. As a Christian, he should know better than to bear false witness against his neighbor.

I, too, faced similar race daggering.

While I was running for office, a former elected Bowling Green official was making calls on behalf of my opponent, telling voters not to vote for me because I was not a real American, but African.

I have since wondered who is a real American. Apparently, that means no apparent connection to Africa.

Though our Constitution commands otherwise, showing no preference for color or ancestry: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States … are citizens of the United States …”, to some, that command mustn’t include those who have African blood.

Images of Africa must do something awful to some people, that Africa is an accepted hate code word. Recently, a letter writer to the Daily News responded to my letter and suggested that I came to America in the cold from Africa with only a shirt on my back.

I guess the president and I should count ourselves lucky no one has yet suggested we came to America naked, like “Tarzan’s” Africans.

Osi Onyekwuluje

Bowling Green

Comments On Obama, Me Were Plain Racist.

Comments on Obama, me were plain racist

After listening to Mike Huckabee lie about President Barack Obama “living in Kenya with his father and grandfather and hating America,” I feel compelled to condemn this form of covert racism.

It is true many despise our president because of his skin color. I don’t know if Huckabee is one of them; I do know he’s another political opportunist of the worst kind. Insisting the president is a Kenyan and un-American, while conveniently failing to mention his mother is a white Kansan, is designed for maximum racist effect.

People like Huckabee use race as a dagger to maim others, and mentioning one’s African ancestry seems to do the trick. As a Christian, he should know better than to bear false witness against his neighbor.

I, too, faced similar race daggering.

While I was running for office, a former elected Bowling Green official was making calls on behalf of my opponent, telling voters not to vote for me because I was not a real American, but African.

I have since wondered who is a real American. Apparently, that means no apparent connection to Africa.

Though our Constitution commands otherwise, showing no preference for color or ancestry: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States … are citizens of the United States …”, to some, that command mustn’t include those who have African blood.

Images of Africa must do something awful to some people, that Africa is an accepted hate code word. Recently, a letter writer to the Daily News responded to my letter and suggested that I came to America in the cold from Africa with only a shirt on my back.

I guess the president and I should count ourselves lucky no one has yet suggested we came to America naked, like “Tarzan’s” Africans.

Osi Onyekwuluje

Bowling Green

Osi Onyekwuluje: "Protect Right Of People To Elect U.S. Senators".

Letters to the Editor: Nov. 21

Protect right of people to elect U.S. senators

I disagree with those who seek the repeal of our Constitution's 17th Amendment's requirement that members of the U.S. Senate be elected by the people.

As a constitutionalist, I understand our Constitution is founded upon the self-evident truth that "we, the people" have certain God-given inalienable rights, paramount of which is our right to be governed only with "the consent of the governed."

So what is the best way to get our required consent, if not by us casting our votes directly for those seeking to govern us?

Before we let these folks mess with our sacred Constitution, let us be mindful of what they are asking us to do and why. They are asking us to give up our right to directly elect our senators for reasons which look suspiciously like political expediency, or worse.

Whatever the motive, such a repeal would will give the power to the people who least deserve to wield it for us — our legislators, who constantly fail us by their self-serving schemes and display for the world to see how incompetent many of them truly are.

And with their penchant for corrupt backroom dealing, the choice of U.S. senator, without the 17th Amendment, would most likely devolve into favors injuriously traded.

So count me as one who opposes repealing the 17th Amendment. Let "we, the people" rule.

Osi Onyekwuluje

Bowling Green


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"17th Amendment Doesn’t Need To Be Repealed".

17th Amendment doesn’t need to be repealed

Friday, November 19, 2010 11:19 AM CST

I am writing to commend the editorial writer for authoring the piece which appeared in the Daily News, Wednesday, titled: “Repealing the 17th Amendment simply a bad idea.”

With all respect due those who have advocated such a course of action, it sounds to me like a few politicians are jumping on the “repeal” bandwagon for what I suspect is born of mere political expediency, rather than abiding principles.

The principles which should instead abide these folks, as well as us, are those principles embodied in our sacred Constitution, including the attacked Bill of Rights’ 17th Amendment.

Repealing the 17th Amendment does nothing but deprive “We, the people” our God given right to be masters (and mistresses) of our own destiny, and to have the power to select those who we will permit to serve us.

And most important, such a repeal will give the power to the people who least deserve to wield it for us - our legislators, who constantly fail us by their self-serving schemes, and display for the world to see, how incompetent many of them truly are.

And add to that scenario their penchant for corrupt backroom dealing, and we have a recipe for disaster in the making.

Thus, the choice of senator, without the 17th Amendment, will most likely be made when favors have been traded, without due regard being given to the public welfare.

So count me as one who opposes repealing the 17th Amendment.

I say: Let “We, the people” decide our own fates.

Osi Onyekwuluje

Bowling Green