Will We Survive Another Four Years?
While much of America is deciding that Barack Obama is, well, too black to represent this country as president, the rest of the world is moving in for a take out. America, the good old US of A, is perhaps the most vulnerable she’s been since her inception. And instead of bringing it together, what are we doing? Showing the world just how divided we are.
According to a poll, conducted with Stanford University, one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views of blacks, calling them lazy and violent and responsible for their own troubles. I wonder what the white Republicans think?
And as a result, Barack Obama may not be elected.
I’m going to go out on a limb here to let white folks know that if they let their racism (and they can talk themselves out of being bigots all they want, but if you think blacks are lazy and violent, you’re a racist and a bigot and just plain dumb), could bring down this entire nation.
It’s sort of like some of white America is saying that they would rather see the house burned down than hand it over a black man.
That there is even a white America or a black America, for that matter, tells us that we have a fundamental problem that if we don’t wake up soon, may have us all speaking Russian and wearing red.
Here’s what happened yesterday while you were worrying about a black man sleeping in the White House:
The Russian military deployed a navy squadron to Venezuela. And Russia has been in steady talks with not just Venezuela but also Cuba and other Latin American nations. And oh yeah, it’s not just a bunch of ships that will span 15,000 nautical miles just off our shores. They are armed with nuclear weapons. If anyone is old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, perhaps you can spread the word and let your neighbors, family and friends know that history does repeat itself—sometimes with an even more deadly result.
Question: Do you think John McCain can quell this mess? A mess created by his party, which has done nothing but create an even more adversarial relationship with our brothers in Cuba and throughout Latin America?
Or would they respond better to someone who looks a little like them and can speak to them a little differently than the folks of the last eight years?
I’m just asking. Because the future of our country depends on people making sound decisions not based on flimsy prejudices and fears, but based on some sensible reasoning about who can negotiate and lead us back to greatness.
According to a poll, conducted with Stanford University, one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views of blacks, calling them lazy and violent and responsible for their own troubles. I wonder what the white Republicans think?
And as a result, Barack Obama may not be elected.
I’m going to go out on a limb here to let white folks know that if they let their racism (and they can talk themselves out of being bigots all they want, but if you think blacks are lazy and violent, you’re a racist and a bigot and just plain dumb), could bring down this entire nation.
It’s sort of like some of white America is saying that they would rather see the house burned down than hand it over a black man.
That there is even a white America or a black America, for that matter, tells us that we have a fundamental problem that if we don’t wake up soon, may have us all speaking Russian and wearing red.
Here’s what happened yesterday while you were worrying about a black man sleeping in the White House:
The Russian military deployed a navy squadron to Venezuela. And Russia has been in steady talks with not just Venezuela but also Cuba and other Latin American nations. And oh yeah, it’s not just a bunch of ships that will span 15,000 nautical miles just off our shores. They are armed with nuclear weapons. If anyone is old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, perhaps you can spread the word and let your neighbors, family and friends know that history does repeat itself—sometimes with an even more deadly result.
Question: Do you think John McCain can quell this mess? A mess created by his party, which has done nothing but create an even more adversarial relationship with our brothers in Cuba and throughout Latin America?
Or would they respond better to someone who looks a little like them and can speak to them a little differently than the folks of the last eight years?
I’m just asking. Because the future of our country depends on people making sound decisions not based on flimsy prejudices and fears, but based on some sensible reasoning about who can negotiate and lead us back to greatness.
Right on Karen. My question is how many white people will see what you wrote? I have been having this discussion with some whites that I know and, of course many of them get it, but racism is really deep. One of my white friends told me that her mother, who has been a life-long democrat, is voting for Mc Cain. She said she can't reason with her, but she is still trying.
It is amazing to me that people will just let the house burn down. My concern is that it is so deeply institutionalized that some white folks are simply not aware of their own racism. They are so convinced that what they think is true that there is not real consciousness of the fallacy of it. For those who actually know black people, they believe that an educated, non-violent, "normal" black person, is an exception and not the rule.
We are preaching to the choir on this site maybe we should branch out more. I blog on several sites and hopefully this will sink in.