Nude_IHB
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<p>Winex,</p>
<p>Dangerous to whom, exactly? White people? Republicans? Americans?</p>
<p>He's not the anti-Christ, he's a liberal Democrat. But he's also Nixon-going-to-China when it comes to racial division. Personally, I think judging a person based on things they have no control over is quite possibly the dumbest philosophy ever. It's like saying red M&M's are better for America than green ones. Yet, this country spent a lot of time saying exactly that. While I may not be racist, and people I associate with are not racist, it isn't like I can pretend that there aren't huge areas of this country where racism is an unconscious state of mind that comes to the surface during conflict. Sixteen years ago I watched a white man have his head caved in by a black kid with a brick for no other reason than being white in a black neighborhood. That anger is still there, the chasm is only growing wider, and no white person can bring up the topic without being labeled a racist by one side or the other. Bill Cosby has the audacity to suggest that maybe blacks need to take some responsibility for the situation and he is pilloried. Geraldine Ferraro ham-fistedly suggests that Obama is getting a free pass because the media loves the idea of a black man winning the White House and she is labeled a racist, much like Limbaugh was with McNabb. Neither are racists, but because they are white they cannot even raise the issue as a topic for discussion.</p>
<p>Barak Obama can. What's more he has the singular opportunity to close the divide between white. black, yellow, red, and brown by encouraging the discussion and providing an atmosphere that fosters closure and acceptance. In doing so, we can address any lingering inequalities, remove any barriers to a truly level playing field, discard affirmative action when it is no longer neccesary, and as a country leave the issue of color and ethnicity behind us. Barak Obama, simply because he is a mix of two races, can initiate that kind of dialogue. More importantly, he isn't a poverty pimp in the mold of Jesse Jackson or Carol Brown or Al Sharpton. If (and I qualified this the same way in my earlier post) he can put forth a concrete plan that results in me and the wife being able to sit down at <a href="http://www.roscoeschickenandwaffles.com/">Roscoe's Chicken' n Waffles</a> in Long Beach without having our waitress inform her manager that she won't serve us because we are white, then he could very well get my vote.</p>
<p>As for what he saw and heard while he was sitting in church... as long as he wasn't the one saying it, I don't really care. How many of your friends espouse ideas that you don't agree with? Do you immediately cut all ties with them and then do your best to castigate anyone who associates with them? </p>
<p>Don't you see? The kind of instant hate and anger that you are exhibiting over some preacher's words is exactly what they are feeling on the other side when some idealogue starts ranting about welfare, the projects, drug dealers, gangs, and affirmative action. I'm sick of seeing it, sick of hearing about it, and sick of dealing with it. For someone like me, who has never discriminated against anyone based on anything other than lack of intelligence, I think the opportunity to eradicate all that is worth voting for, provided a plan is offered that can work. I think we, as a country, can benefit more from erasing that one aspect of our society than all the welfare programs, all the tax cuts, and all the defense spending combined. United, we stand....remember?</p>
<p>Dangerous to whom, exactly? White people? Republicans? Americans?</p>
<p>He's not the anti-Christ, he's a liberal Democrat. But he's also Nixon-going-to-China when it comes to racial division. Personally, I think judging a person based on things they have no control over is quite possibly the dumbest philosophy ever. It's like saying red M&M's are better for America than green ones. Yet, this country spent a lot of time saying exactly that. While I may not be racist, and people I associate with are not racist, it isn't like I can pretend that there aren't huge areas of this country where racism is an unconscious state of mind that comes to the surface during conflict. Sixteen years ago I watched a white man have his head caved in by a black kid with a brick for no other reason than being white in a black neighborhood. That anger is still there, the chasm is only growing wider, and no white person can bring up the topic without being labeled a racist by one side or the other. Bill Cosby has the audacity to suggest that maybe blacks need to take some responsibility for the situation and he is pilloried. Geraldine Ferraro ham-fistedly suggests that Obama is getting a free pass because the media loves the idea of a black man winning the White House and she is labeled a racist, much like Limbaugh was with McNabb. Neither are racists, but because they are white they cannot even raise the issue as a topic for discussion.</p>
<p>Barak Obama can. What's more he has the singular opportunity to close the divide between white. black, yellow, red, and brown by encouraging the discussion and providing an atmosphere that fosters closure and acceptance. In doing so, we can address any lingering inequalities, remove any barriers to a truly level playing field, discard affirmative action when it is no longer neccesary, and as a country leave the issue of color and ethnicity behind us. Barak Obama, simply because he is a mix of two races, can initiate that kind of dialogue. More importantly, he isn't a poverty pimp in the mold of Jesse Jackson or Carol Brown or Al Sharpton. If (and I qualified this the same way in my earlier post) he can put forth a concrete plan that results in me and the wife being able to sit down at <a href="http://www.roscoeschickenandwaffles.com/">Roscoe's Chicken' n Waffles</a> in Long Beach without having our waitress inform her manager that she won't serve us because we are white, then he could very well get my vote.</p>
<p>As for what he saw and heard while he was sitting in church... as long as he wasn't the one saying it, I don't really care. How many of your friends espouse ideas that you don't agree with? Do you immediately cut all ties with them and then do your best to castigate anyone who associates with them? </p>
<p>Don't you see? The kind of instant hate and anger that you are exhibiting over some preacher's words is exactly what they are feeling on the other side when some idealogue starts ranting about welfare, the projects, drug dealers, gangs, and affirmative action. I'm sick of seeing it, sick of hearing about it, and sick of dealing with it. For someone like me, who has never discriminated against anyone based on anything other than lack of intelligence, I think the opportunity to eradicate all that is worth voting for, provided a plan is offered that can work. I think we, as a country, can benefit more from erasing that one aspect of our society than all the welfare programs, all the tax cuts, and all the defense spending combined. United, we stand....remember?</p>
