[Rhodes22-list] food for thought

[Herb Parsons]

What a friggin' joke you are Pete. So, if those of us that don't buy 
into the bullshit argument below are racists?

Bull.

You're an idiot Pete. AND you're a racist. You keep bringing the color 
of the candidates up, but that's YOU and YOURS. I don't care what color 
Obama is, and your implications that I, and others like me, do is not 
only wrong, it's a lie, and thus, you're a liar.

Frankly, I would love to see Alan Keyes elected president, but I don't 
believe it's going to happen. When a black man doesn't drink the liberal 
kool-aid, he's suddenly an "uncle tom", or "no longer black", so he's 
discounted by bigots like yourself.

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