I've struggled with Obama's campaign spin-pros to face up to the question I had thrown at me hundeds of times by Democrats and Republicans IN THE NORTHEAST when I advocated for Obama as the "Prince of Change": DO YOU WANT A NIG-ER IN THE WHITE HOUSE?" It was a devastating question that left me dumbfounded. But Divine Providence gave me an inspiration. I asked: Whom did you want for President in 1998 (for 2000)? And you know what MOST said? "Colin Powell"!
I can't claim surprise. I'm an East Euro and knew a lot of Jew-haters....but they all cheered and rooted for the Israelis-- fellow East Euros who made good. Racism is a symptom, not a disease. I come from Europe that is divided into 90 RACES-- not nationalities, but RACES! That kind of thinking was used to justify slavery; but slavery is not animal husbandry, it is full awareness that that guy in chains is a person like you. I know of a lot of Old South racists who willed their entire fortune to their "nig-er" offsprings because, in their last moment in life, these were their human blood line.
Today's racism, coming from many Dems who cheered LBJ on civil rights, is symptom of fear initiated by 9/11. The fear of impotence watching the buildings go down wasn't one you could treat with Viagra. Many knew fear in Vietnam's jungles, but all those I remember felt reasured by their black buddies covering their backs. At that time then we didn't feel like we were losing. When we did lose we couldn't recover until we saw in the Gulf War a black soldier playing "America the Beautiful" on his sax in 1991; it wiped their Vietnam impotence away and Powell was the President they all demanded. 9/11 broke them again, made them feel old and impotent again. Karl Rove worked their fear and made it fester, much as the Republicans will now (with McCain hypocritically tsk-tsk-ing it all). "Nig-er" is bravura, not racism. We who see Obama as America's only hope must make the case that on 9/11 we were not beat. We stupidly left the pilot cabin's door open on every airliner for three decades and alQaeda saw how dumb we were. But now we are smart, they are losing the minds of Muslims and Osama is dead. Once the fear is gone, the courage of Obama to step in where Powell dared not thread will be fully appreciated. This is not a racist country-- crazy old boomers maybe-- but not a racist country, anymore. Good door-to-door grassroots work will prove that very fast, and that's what I'm doing so the "nig-er" JFK, Obama, can save my America by changing its Rovian state of fear.
Posted by DE Teodoru (not verified) on June 13, 2008 - 8:16pm.
I've struggled with Obama's campaign spin-pros to face up to the question I had thrown at me hundeds of times by Democrats and Republicans IN THE NORTHEAST when I advocated for Obama as the "Prince of Change": DO YOU WANT A NIG-ER IN THE WHITE HOUSE?" It was a devastating question that left me dumbfounded. But Divine Providence gave me an inspiration. I asked: Whom did you want for President in 1998 (for 2000)? And you know what MOST said? "Colin Powell"!
I can't claim surprise. I'm an East Euro and knew a lot of Jew-haters....but they all cheered and rooted for the Israelis-- fellow East Euros who made good. Racism is a symptom, not a disease. I come from Europe that is divided into 90 RACES-- not nationalities, but RACES! That kind of thinking was used to justify slavery; but slavery is not animal husbandry, it is full awareness that that guy in chains is a person like you. I know of a lot of Old South racists who willed their entire fortune to their "nig-er" offsprings because, in their last moment in life, these were their human blood line.
Today's racism, coming from many Dems who cheered LBJ on civil rights, is symptom of fear initiated by 9/11. The fear of impotence watching the buildings go down wasn't one you could treat with Viagra. Many knew fear in Vietnam's jungles, but all those I remember felt reasured by their black buddies covering their backs. At that time then we didn't feel like we were losing. When we did lose we couldn't recover until we saw in the Gulf War a black soldier playing "America the Beautiful" on his sax in 1991; it wiped their Vietnam impotence away and Powell was the President they all demanded. 9/11 broke them again, made them feel old and impotent again. Karl Rove worked their fear and made it fester, much as the Republicans will now (with McCain hypocritically tsk-tsk-ing it all). "Nig-er" is bravura, not racism. We who see Obama as America's only hope must make the case that on 9/11 we were not beat. We stupidly left the pilot cabin's door open on every airliner for three decades and alQaeda saw how dumb we were. But now we are smart, they are losing the minds of Muslims and Osama is dead. Once the fear is gone, the courage of Obama to step in where Powell dared not thread will be fully appreciated. This is not a racist country-- crazy old boomers maybe-- but not a racist country, anymore. Good door-to-door grassroots work will prove that very fast, and that's what I'm doing so the "nig-er" JFK, Obama, can save my America by changing its Rovian state of fear.