In the 1980s, Obama
worked for Jerry Kellman, a community organizer who was trying to get Chicago
black clergy and churches involved in “social change.” Kellman’s
organization, the Calumet Community Religious Conference, was a product of Saul
Alinsky’s teachings.
Alinsky wanted a
peaceful revolution using the ballot box and not the violent tactics of other
Obama friends such as William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. He also felt that the
middle class held the power to make changes, not the low income and
minority ethnic groups.
Alinsky point out
that “When more than three-fourths of our people from both the point of view of
economics and of their self-identification are middle class, it is obvious that
their action or inaction will determine the direction of change.”
In 2008, the middle
class paved the way for Barack Obama’s election. Most people did not know who
Barack Obama was, but his “Hope and Change” rhetoric fooled them! The
word “change” being the key to Saul Alinsky’s silent revolution and
Barack Obama’s unlikely election.
In Flanders
fields the poppies blow
