I know that sometimes I’m judgemental....I really don’t mean to be....I like to think that I’m a rational, even-minded person & that I’m capable of making fair assessments of people & events........That said, I admit to being a conservative......I hold, and I don’t remember who said it, “that he who is not liberal in his youth has no heart, but he who is not conservative when he’s older has no brain.”
Obama gave a pretty good speech, (I wouldn’t have expected anything less, ack’shully).....but, he didn’t explain why he & his wife, not to mention his children, spent 20 years investing in & maintaining a relationship with an ignorant racist like the so-called Rev. Wright. I hate to call the demagogue Wright a Reverend.....it’s a false title.....his rant about past injustices was not designed to call attention & start a dialogue.....his rant was angry & mean & meant to divide....and all the people in his congregation heard him & understood what he was saying.....& yes, Barack & Michelle Obama heard him & did not denounce him publicly or privately & therefore, evidently agreed with him. AND THAT REASON ALONE is reason enough for Obama’s candidacy to fail.
And in a way, that’s too bad. Electing a semi-black man like Obama to the Presidency would go a long way toward healing the racial divide in our country. I s’pect when we get enuff persons of ‘mixed race’ that the racial divide will get so confusing that we’ll just give up and recognize that ‘a person’s a person, no matter how small.’ Or as Kipling phrased it about the Irish, ‘the Colonel’s lady and Rosie O’Grady are sisters under the skin.’ There just has to come a time when everybody realizes that there is only one race of humanity.
The human race is all the same species regardless of color. White, black, brown, red, yellow or green, we’re all the same. Oh wait! We don’t have any green people except on March 17 when everyone is a little green.
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