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Edited on Fri Aug-15-08 02:29 PM by FrenchieCat
I am real tired of the "there is soooo much racism out there.....perhaps McCain has a chance at taking this thing" talk here and elsewhere.....especially from Democrats.
To those of you who believe that there are sooooo many more racists in this country than anyone will admit, and oh....Obama probably will lose because of it......then so be fucking it! keep talking about electing John McCain, and how it can happen, and know that you are part of the problem.
Why?
Because pushing this racism bullshit by constantly posting every fucking damn article found on the subject, and then gnawing one's fucking teeth about it, doesn't do anything to help us win. These kind of threads actually encourages us to think that everyone and his brother is a great big racist, which in turn encourages defeatist attitudes, demoralizes many and screams "Self Fulfilling Prophecy"!
Then you have the posters that join into these threads to say in their despair; ....Yes, there are a whole lot of racists in America.....I've seen it with my own eyes......its all around me, etc., etc...
Well, since you are in the bastion of racism, and it is everywhere, is there something that you are doing about it other than worrying out loud? Have you written an LTTE to your local paper about how you are NOT a racist, and how Melanin cannot be what this election is about, and how we should all be way better than this in this here 21st Century?
You see, Group think sucks! And the more folks advance the theory that everyone and their mother is a racist, the more folks will believe that this is quite an OK thing to be. Is that what we want? Or do we want folks to start thinking past this useless racism shit and start thinking about how our country is going down the drain based on what the Republicans have done to this country?
Perhaps it is the intended purpose, to have us all "worrying" about Obama's race 24/7? And Perhaps the predicted response from such posters, e.g., "Hide your head in the sand if you want to" reasoning is supposed to mean something. See, it doesn't matter if we hide or not (since skin color can't be hidden anyways).....if people keep saying "well a lot of people won't vote for Obama because he is Black", then people will believe that this is an OK thing to do since it has been said so many times over and over again!
So the fact is, just in case you didn't know, the press as well as many others have already given the go ahead for those who choose to be as racist to be so as much as they want to be during this election. In fact, I daresay, being a racist is almost kind of cool again.
I'm pretty sure that those White folks saying they will vote for Obama to pollsters are telling the truth, since they could just say they won't if they wanted to. It's not like their picture will be printed in the newspaper the next day or anything. So, in addition to what I have said, let me also say that I don't give a shit if Pollsters "claim" that somehow people saying that they will vote for Obama must be lying. What a bunch of shit that is!
And as far as I am concerned, from this point on, shame on the posters at DU who somehow believe that they are providing a public service everytime they post a thread that tells us once again how so many White people are racists. If you think that this is helping anything....other than advancing the theory that Race is the issue in this election, it is not.
Bring us the threads about issues instead, or start working to promote (if you haven't already)the fact that we have a way better candidate than the Republicans do, regardless of his race....because we do.
This election ain't about race unless you (yes, you) allow it to be. This election is about the current state of affairs in these United States for all of its citizens; Fucked up as could be. That is what we should focus on......
Let the haters say otherwise if they so choose, but we should not be jumping on that bandwagon. That is dangerous and solves nothing, no way, no how.
Thank you.
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