For a long time it’s been known that soon brown people would be in the majority in the west and even grow stronger in the east. At one time, this was looked at as, “What a Country.” We were great. We allowed people of mixed race and blacks to get educated and even run things. Well, somewhere this pride about inclusion has changed.
The way the President has been treated from the beginning is obvious. He’s not one of us … he’s anti-American. He has to fail or the rest of the world might get used to having people of color in positions of power. The fact that he epitomizes the American story of success is not what the Republicans want you to identify with . So if a guy from Harvard who was in the top of his class and on The Harvard Law Review is not an American, then who is?
Oh yeah! Manifest Destiny. The idea that Jesus wanted white people to run things. (even though he was a person of color). I know it sounds dumb, but in their subconscious minds, there are those who have trouble seeing minorities as equals let alone as authority figures. These people need our President to fail. If this means that the country suffers, oh well. It’s the people of color that are really out of work anyway—estimates say that three to four times more minorities are out of work than white people.
What used to make us a great country was our inclusiveness. The fact that a person’s content of character is more important than where he comes from or what his race is was a tenet of our country, but now, we only say it because it sounds good, not because it’s actually something that we practice. It could be argued that Obama has been too nice or too willing to give into the right. His psychology is that of a person who is trying to please the aggressor. It may have worked to show people that he isn’t a bad black man, but republicans have no respect for him.Look at how they have tried to marginalize him as “not a real American” when his story is the American story.
There are two types of respect. The origin of the word means to “look back with different eyes.” The other meaning is more based in fear, like when you see a police car in your rear view mirror. Obama really thought that as time went on, republicans would see him as a leader, but they don’t want to see him as anything other than a failure.
Equality, for all. It must sting that many of Obama’s proposals were Republican ideas from the past. Even the idea of a public health care system was first proposed by Eisenhower then Nixon. So the the party of old white guys has to put us into economic slavery.
Remember August of 2011, the month when the mouthpiece of the Republic party, Rush Limbaugh laid it out on his radio show. When asked what a new republican president should do as his first action, he said that he should segregate the military. He should start reversing civil rights law and go back to the doctrine of separate but equal. Russ lives by the saying, “white is right!”
People of color have come a long way to achieve equal rights. Come on, America, we are better than this! Or are we?
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Your right, I was so blown away that i just didn’t believe what i heard. I will document things better, thanks! I also heard, Mathews on Hardball say the same thing. so I know what it heard was real. We are living in time where Racism is home to the Republican party. Perry family with a history of KKK, and others like Ron Paul who have a history of Racism. I’m an old guy who has heard all this before.