The problem with blacks is their inferiority complex that springs from the the embarassment the majority of their race bring to a decent society. Until they start acting like decent people as a whole, instead of robbing and murdering as a second nature among themselves, the black PROBLEM will continue unless they as a group call a spade a spade.
I understand that the name of this site alone makes me something of a target for such ramblings, but this is not the first time I have been forced to moderate this kind of bile. The anonymity of the world wide web makes it convenient for racists to speak their mind. I almost encourage it in the sense that I rather know what’s out there than be left guessing. I have never once tried to fool myself into believing that this kind of thinking has gone the way of the Dodo, though I occasionally hope that the world my son inherits will bear witness to?continued progress.
Where is all of this race?stuff coming from, you wonder? This weekend?the AP has made widely available the results of a study that makes it very clear that Obama has to get over the race hurdle if he is to become the president of the U.S. When you think about it the reality is that the presidential race shouldn’t be so close. Think about it some more and you can figure why it is. The Republicans have started a war, destroyed the economy, and have been running a nasty campaign. Their most recent claim to fame is adding Palin to the ticket – a would-be book banning fundamentalist who thinks she can pray gay away, and has twisted and lied about every?accomplishment she’s made including the legitimate ones. Yikes. Yet the two candidates are running virtually neck and neck.
So why is the presidential race so close? The aforementioned study shows that one third of white democrats harbor a negative view of blacks on the whole. That’s a lot. I am certain you can find plenty of black folk that have negative things to say about whites, but we are not the power majority,?and for better or for worse we would have voted for any democrat no matter their race.
It’s not all gloom and doom though. This blog has so many friends of so many races that at some point I was considering changing the name to United Nations Dad (just kidding, but you get my point). This blog has enjoyed?overwhelmingly positive support on the Internet and we can start shifting the tide toward Obama. We have to. Go out and convince those on the fence that Obama is the man for the job. He’s ready to move this country out from under the cloud that has formed over us. Change the minds of the naysayers.
This election is not about race, it can’t be.?It must be?about our country. I tell the people I know who are?not from here?that I couldn’t imagine not living in the US and that I love this place despite its faults. They laugh at me. We have to prove to the non-believers that we can turn this around and the only way to do that is to not support four more years of the failed Bush agenda which will continue via McCain. It’s that simple.
Peace.
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I couldn’t agree more. I’m single, black, with a graduate degree in economics and the mom of a beautiful and intelligent womanchild. I work hard everyday, as do all the black folk I know. That this society continues to paint African Americans as a lazy, violent, sex crazed and ignorant people has as much to do with economics as anything.
How else can the 10% of this country who control 85% of the nation’s wealth (http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html ) continue to play the shell game with the average American? If white Americans stopped seeing us as the evil and angry “other” they might actually start looking at those who have made decisions against the best interest of most Americans. They might just redefine the enemy.
Imagine that.
Be well…
GREAT post, Keith . . . one of your best, I think. I’m with you 100%! Let’s give real change a chance (smile).
You make perfect sense. I’m already on the bandwagon!
I’m totally opposed to your politics (but I’m an ultraconservative from Idaho). However, I would hope that if McCain defeats Obama that race is not a factor. I wouldn’t vote for Obama simply because I disagree with his policies on public and private land use, gun legislation, and how much government interference there should be in the private business sector. The fact that his skin or hair is different than mine is no more a factor in my voting decision than is the fact McCain doesn’t have much hair at all. Trust me, I’m not that pleased with McCain’s politics either.
It concerns me that so many people still perceive racism to be an issue. Idaho isn’t very racially diverse. We have a huge population of Mexican and Basque immigrants (and interestingly enough there are quite a few Germans here).
I remember my first plant science class in college. Our TA was a Nigerian. He was shiny black. I’ve never seen anyone with skin that was actually shiny black, not brown, or tan, or pink. Most of the class spent the first few days staring at him. We had never seen any other individual who looked like our TA. That did not prevent us from eating lunch with him, dancing with him, sitting and shooting the breeze with him if we met each other while out of class.
For my generation, at least in this location, race doesn’t seem to be much of an issue… except for the curiousity quotient. It’s kind of like you can’t help looking at the girl with a peaches and cream complexion and red hair. While we appreciate looking at different people, they are still just people like us.
We have much more issue with the socio-economic disadvantaged population in our area who tend to gravitate toward gang activity. There too race doesn’t seem to make one group more likely to belong to a gang than any other. Embracing the culture of the community you’re living in makes it likely that community will embrace you as well. I’m whiter than white (Scottish complexions don’t tan) but lucky enough to live in a community where we eat pan dulces for breakfast and think nothing of our children being bilingual Spanish/English.
I’m sorry to take up so much room in your comments section, but your post really made me think about how race affects this region and the children growing here. Hopefully all Americans can move forward based on the issues and not consider what people look like.
I, too, am surprised and disappointed that this election isn’t a foregone conclusion, but then I think that might be a big setup for failure/backlash. So it’s probably good that it stays the way it is, provided everyone shows up to vote on election day.
I’m hoping a lot of new voters who don’t have landlines and are thus excluded from most polls will show up and throw everything out of wack, or into wack, as it were.
Secondly, I think the biggest reason, even bigger than Palin, that McCain is keeping this close is residual feeling from people for the person he used to be before he sold out to Bush’s puppetmasters. I feel sad watching him now, because I used to like him. If he was running for himself against someone like John Kerry, or even Clinton going for a second term, I’d probably vote for him. Never in a million years would I vote for him saying what he’s saying and hiring who he’s hiring.
For all the hyper conservatives complain about his “conservative credentials”, the only reason the race is competitive is that they picked McCain instead of Romney, Huckabee, or one of the others.
Unfortunately I agree with you. I too would love to think that society as a whole has moved forward, but the more I talk to people falling over backwards to justify the Republican ticket the more it becomes clear that they are afraid of their own misguided ignorance. It’s sad.
I am with you on this one for sure! I just really hope everyone gets out there and votes!
“The problem with blacks is their inferiority complex that springs from the the embarassment the majority of their race bring to a decent society. Until they start acting like decent people as a whole, instead of robbing and murdering as a second nature among themselves, the black PROBLEM will continue unless they as a group call a spade a spade.”
See THIS is the reason I don’t have Black Adam’s powers….God wants to keep people like this alive…
I’m depressed that you are right, but I know it in my heart. When Obama and Clinton emerged as the two Democratic contenders, I thought “the Democrats could be shooting themselves in the foot here” … there are plenty of folks who wouldn’t vote for either a woman or a black….end of story. But hope springs eternal and maybe, maybe more folks will at least begin to see the economic destruction of recent years for what it is. Maybe GREEN is the color to concentrate on.
Thanks for this post. I agree with you and I wish things were not this way.
Yes – the McCain/Palin team is like dumb/dumber and they ride neck and neck with Obama despite the fact that the Republicans are leaving your country in the worst condition that it has ever possibly been in (just like you mentioned).
I live in Canada. I have yet to run into a single person who thinks McCain should get in. We all see it up here – it is really clear from our perspective. What is going on down there? Oh, that’s right…a little subversive racism.
From my perspective (as an outsider):
Globally I feel the USA (Government) has a lot to work on with restoring the rest of the World’s confidence in their sanity. With George Bush having being put forward as the representative of the Country for the past 8 years (to put it mildly) the USA is seen at the butt of the rest of the worlds jokes. The other part from a International perspective is being worried about what kind of global damage will be done with another term (or two) with another war minded President. So we are either laughing or we are biting our nails.
Do you know what though? I have yet to hear anyone make fun of Obama. We are all holding our breath hoping he will get elected. I am really hoping for some positive change for your Country.
I also think too many white citizens may be blinded by this:
http://mmcisaac.faculty.asu.edu/emc598ge/Unpacking.html
to really have to stop and think too much about about how race might play into this election.
This was such an excellent post. I agree with you totally.
I’ve been trying to encourage any and EVERY one to vote and it amazes me how many people STILL don’t understand the importance of voting. It frustrates me that I’ve talked to several people I work with that have stated that their SOLE reason for not voting this year is because they believe the wait at the polls will be too long. I would gladly stand in line ALL day and night if I had to.
Just out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on the mail in ballot?? Do you trust that those ballots will actually get counted?
Hopefully with all that’s going on these days folks will finally “get” that it’s not about race. Obama’s race isn’t going to help or hurt the economy. I hope folks can wrap their heads around that.
There is a dream world that everyone wants to come into being. Every opportunity they see they want to say this is the one that will change everything. Realistically no one wants to admit that there is this much Racism in this country. So much that it will effect the presidential race.
As a man we live with what it is not with what we hope it to be.
I’ll try to keep it short.
1. Yes, it is unfortunate that race may be a factor in some people’s decision making on who to vote for.
2. Much more important – if Obama wins, will African Americans be wise enough to call him out if he does make mistakes, or will we use the race card every time? I’m not so concerned about whether there’s a first black president. It’s whether the first is the best for the job.
3. No matter what your political identification, realize that the economic mess is not a issue of Republican or Democrat, it’s an issue of trying to give wealth away rather than earning it. Neither the poor nor the rich were helped in this. I don’t care what color we are, if we don’t spend less than we make, we will end up like the USSR. No one, neither party, can erase the laws of supply and demand. Someone has to be truthful and say NO, you can’t have the house, you can’t have the loan, you can’t have the check. I don’t hear that from Obama or McCain. My job is to teach my children that no one is exempt from the law of the harvest – you reap what you sow. And America will not learn from a saviour, a savant or a soldier. It must learn from itself, piece by piece, bit by bit the values that once made it great – values that eminate from the people, not the politician or pundit.
Sorry, not very short.
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I can only agree to an extent with this one. I understand that the current regime’s agenda seems to be a self-serving one, but I don’t know that people understand that, if elected, OBAMA DOESN’T OWE BLACK PEOPLE ANYTHING!!!! You know, in a way, I feel bad for Obama…on one hand, he’s going to need a strong Black presence in order to win this election; on the other hand, he must keep in consideration who his customer is. America is a White-run country, for better or for worse and if Obama is to be considered a successful candidate, he’s going to have to cater more towards those who are funding his campaign and those who are in positions of power to help. I just don’t want Blacks to think that Obama’s gonna step into office and be a “hip hop president”….the city of Detroit can tell you all about the downsides of having a “cool” political leader.
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// TCS
I feel you. I just cast my vote, yesterday.