By: Tonyaa Weathersbee
Barack Obama’s historic presidential candidacy seems to have brought out the creativity in a lot of folks.
It has inspired songs and poems, T-shirts and posters, books and buttons. One T-shirt, emblazoned with the slogan, “The Real Deal,” has Obama and his wife, Michelle, doing the fist bump -- complete with definitions of “giving dap” on the back.
A button says, “He’s Black and I’m Proud.” Another button, with images of Obama and Martin Luther King Jr., proclaims them as keepers of a legacy.
To that end, I’ve come up with my own Obamatized slogan -- one that would fit well on a button or T-shirt. My buttons and T-shirts would have an image of Obama and Michelle.
And the words splashed across it would read: “Annoy a racist. Get an education.“
These items I would sell in every corner of black America where far too many young black people, especially young black males, have been duped into believing that the way to assert themselves in a society that marginalizes them is to reject education and embrace pathology.
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