[Rhodes22-list] food for thought

[Brad Haslett]

Pete,

Oh for crying out loud!  I once heard a speech from a great man who
dreamed of his children being judged "not by the color of their skin
but the content of their heart".  It's the content of the heart issues
that concern me - if a person spends their whole career with nefarious
characters, political "fixers", unrepentant terrorists, radical
religious leaders, one has valid reasons for questioning the content
of their heart.

Geraldine Ferraro said during the primaries that if Barack Obama were
white he wouldn't get a pass from the MSM for sitting in an openly
racist church for 20 years and she was right. And, let's not forget
Father Flaguer and Rev. Meeks.

Nothing pisses me off more than having to pick a square on my
daughters paperwork for school for race.  WTF difference does it make?
 Do I check white?  Do I check Asian? How about a square for "none of
the above".

Give the racism crap a rest.

Brad

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:24 AM, petelargo <petelauritzen at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> excellent post. racism is subtle. you have to be smart about racism and
> codify the message to 'he's not like us', 'he's not one of us', 'he's
> un-american', 'he's different', 'who is he really'.
>
>
> Peter Thorn wrote:
>>
>> WHAT IF
>>
>>
>>
>> What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
>>
>> What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating
>> class?
>>
>>
>>
>> What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "I do" to?
>>
>> What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no
>> longer
>>
>>
>> measured up to his standards?
>>
>>
>>
>> What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain
>>
>> killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
>>
>> What if Cindy McCain graduated from Princeton?
>>
>>
>>
>> What if Obama was one of the "Keating 5"?
>>
>> What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
>>
>>
>>
>> If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election
>>
>> numbers would be as close as they are?  This is what racism does. It
>> covers
>>
>> up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and
>>
>> emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
>>
>>
>>
>> P.S. What if Obama had an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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