Reply #194: I'm calling it because that's what I see. [View All]

[Raineyb]

Presidents have addressed children in school before and there was no big outcry about needing to opt out. So why in this case? I can think of ONE thing that's different about this president than all the others before. Now maybe you are under the delusion that racism is a thing of the past because a black man has managed to get himself elected president of this still racist country but I can ill afford to delude myself in such a manner.

That people on this board may be uncomfortable with the charge is not my concern. That you refuse to see it matters to me not one whit. That someone on a so called Democratic board admits that he kept his kids out of school to have them avoid seeing the black president speak and have the nerve to claim it's not racism is an insult to my intelligence. I know that people don't want to see the racism involved in the opposition to Obama. Too bad, I will rub you nose in it until you recognize it. I have to live with it every day why the hell shouldn't you?

The boy who cried wolf? The deadly consequences of racism in this country are too fucking serious to relegate to a mere game or a stupid fable. But then you don't have to live in a black skin in a racist country do you? I will not hold back in order to make you comfortable. Don't like it? Too bad! I don't like being a second class citizen in the country in which I was born. I have to deal with it. You'll just have to suffer or put your head in the sand. Either way I will call racism every time I see it. I don't need your permission nor do I need your approval.