Posted by
Political Prescience on Monday, October 13, 2008 10:39:47 AM
Numerous complaints of imagined racism are already starting
to split the nation. Obama must
clear up these false claims or he risks beginning a new and horrible era in
American race relations, especially if he should win the Presidency.
It is already inevitable that there will be numerous claims
of racism by many people in the event of an Obama victory each time Obama is
criticized. The first amendment
will come under considerable strain.
This is, and will continue to be, a relentless and organized attempt to
stifle criticism of Obama and, more specifically, his agenda.
Are they actually saying that tying Obama to a WHITE
terrorist is akin to the Willie Horton ads?* Well, yes they are. It’s silly, silly and shameless. (The
arguments over racism in the Horton ad are also specious, but that’s for
another day.)
The saddest of these pathetic and embarrassing accusations
is the one by John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and veteran of the civil rights
movement, he is well aware that what he is saying is not right; it’s a shameful
exaggeration at the least, and can more appropriately be called an outright
incitement of racial discord.
It’s odd that when the left calls Bush a murderer, accuse
our troops of (disproved) atrocities, and attacks Sarah Palin in blatantly
sexist ways, that’s all fair game, but if Republicans do everything possible to
bring NOT to bring race into the campaign, they are racists. This is a VERY dangerous game and it
must be stopped.
What if McCain’s VP candidate had said, on camera, to an
Indian man, that it was not possible to go into a Dunkin Donuts without having
an Indian accent? How is it that
Joe Biden gets away with that?**
* http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/10/12/2008-10-12_shameless_john_mccain_plays_the_willie_h.html
http://www.heraldonline.com/109/story/877049.html
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081012/D93OQ2SO0.html
** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM19YOqs7hU
Check out some actual
bigotry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQalRPQ8stI