Posted by
Wil on Monday, September 15, 2008 10:30:08 AM
I have been swamped between the normal daily prep work for school and my two online classes (I am taking genetics and microbiology towards a masters degree), but I saw this and couldn't resist posting.
The Democrats are preparing to lose. They are getting it in gear, saying already two months ahead of time that if they lose, it is because of racism. This quote comes from an article in "Salon":
"I know there is a real concern out there that some people who normally would be voting Democratic might not vote for an African-American," said Tim Burke, the Democratic chairman of Hamilton County (Cincinnati and its suburbs). "Gov. [Ted] Strickland has spoken openly about this." Campaigning for Obama in Jackson County in the Appalachian southeastern corner of the state earlier this month, Strickland declared, "I'm going to talk about the elephant in the room -- and I'm not talking about any Republican. The elephant in the room is what everybody's thinking but nobody willing to talk about ... it's race."
Yes. There are racist people. There are people I met in the Navy and in college who think that interracial marriage or dating is wrong somehow, that people of different races are less human than their own race. I had a roommate in language school in the Navy that told me the Bible forbids interracial marriage. He used as his verse some place in Leviticus where God told the Hebrew nation not to intermarry with the people of the land they conquered. When I asked him wasn't that more because He didn't want them seduced by the religions of those people, he said it didn't matter and didn't want to talk about it. So I get it, there are racist people. But see what this author did? He specified that "States like Ohio" are where this will be an issue, and further, that in the Appalachia corner of Ohio is where it needs to be dealt with. It goes back to the assumption, the words Obama himself used, that it is poor uneducated rural white people who are too stupid to look beyond race to vote for the future. Obama talked about rural white voters clinging to guns and religion and HATRED FOR PEOPLE DIFFERENT THAN THEY ARE. He said that to an audience in San Francisco of rich liberals who completely agree with him. We are seeing more and more of this from the press as Palin has an effect. They are so convinced that their ideas are the right ones, so convinced that they are smarter than everyone else, that they cannot concieve of the possibility that their ideas are wrong, that maybe people move to rural areas seeking FREEDOM from government breathing down your necks, monitoring everything you do. It isn't about race, for most rural voters its about freedom in an increasingly intrusive country.
Now that the press is seeing the tide turn, they are getting ready, priming the pump, getting the memo to the community organizers, that if Obama loses it is Racism, and as such, there should be rioting in the streets. How much more racist can you get than assuming that black voters will riot if Obama loses, that if Obama loses there will never be another black candidate, and that we the people are not individuals but are made up of monolithic voting blocs based on race, gender, and lifestyle? I have a lot more to say, but no more time.