President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

Is it really any surprise that the Nobel Committee awarded United States President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.  We have long known that this is a highly politicized award that the Nobel Committee has welded like a club.

And that is fine.

President Obama was awarded the prize for, "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

Well, no.

President Obama represents the fruition of the dream of a previous recipient, Dr. Martin Luther King.  King's selection for the Peace Prize rightfully highlighted his fight against the Jim Crow, cracker, peckerwood politics of the United States in the period before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

President Obama deserves the award to having the guts (and fortune) of being the first African American President of the United States.  Let's hope he lives up to the responsibility.

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Posted by liberationtheology at 12/10/2009 8:23 AM
Categories: Media
Tags: Politics Nobel Peace Prize Obama
 

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