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Stop bitching and moaning
Disclosure: I've donated to and am actively supporting Obama. I grew up in the deep south and have had plenty of run-ins with racism of all sorts: the subtle and the overt.
I read with dismay the posts here tut-tutting at one Republican or another and asserting that calling Obama "uppity" is racist.
Please, <b>for the love of God</b>, get a grip and stop this idiotic knee-jerk cry of "racist" when someone hits Obama with a charge of being eliteist. Just as the Republicans are going overboard with their assertions that any question of Palin is "sexist," we would all do well to cut out the hyperbole.
You do a tremendous disservice to the causes of fighting true racism and sexism when you incorrectly brand things that aren't these things as such.
This is how Dubya and crew made the word "terrorist" meaningless. Stop it. Please.
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Sorry, but I gotta disagree. When you see someone, somewhere -- anywhere -- pull a race-baiting stunt like Lynn Westmoreland did, and who has the gall to pretend (after getting called out on it) that he didn't mean what he said, we all have a responsibility to make damn certain that that person knows we are keeping scoring and telling it like it is.
You might have grown up in the deep south, but the way to end the racist bullshit is to call it like you see it. It's not knee-jerk, it's not idiotic. It IS damn unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Not this time, not this election.
ENOUGH!
And if you or anyone else is too chicken to call it, let me know, because I will. No ifs, ands or buts... it is what it is, and I've had enough.
September 5, 2008 5:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
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