[Rhodes22-list] food for thought

[petelargo]

"None of the "positive" attributes about Barak are anything I much care
about." 

Oh really? How sad to hear that you no long care much about fidelity to your
wife, achievement in education, and helping your community. I truly will
pray for you.



hparsons wrote:
> 
> 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'.  
>>
>>
>> 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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