It is now known that Barack Obama has personally received racist threats, but it appears that he is being attacked because of his race in other ways as well. CBS News has decided to disable all email comment forms about Obama because there have been so many racist remarks left by those who do not want him in office because of his skin color.
Similarly, a parody about Barack Obama, in which a person portraying Al Sharpton disses the presidential hopeful because "he is not from the hood," is circulating the internet, and has Rush Limbaugh in hot water.
The Week quoted a new Justice Department study that found, "After a traffic stop, police are three times more likely to search black drivers, and two times more likely to search Hispanic drivers."
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While racist epithets are inexcusable even when applied to prominent racists and anti-Semites like Obama's friend Al Sharpton, Obama is himself not guilt-free here. He knowingly and willfully chose to attend Sharpton's National Action Network: a hate group, and arguably a violent one given its activities leading up to the arson of Freddy's Fashion Mart (a Jewish-owned store in Harlem). Sharpton personally called its owner a "white interloper."
A Sharpton ditty to brighten (or ignite) your day: "A Molotov cocktail and the flash of a match/ and your honky Jew store is a pile of ash!"
Not that it's really funny, as seven people (most of whom were Hispanics, plus a Black security guard whom Sharpton's people called a "cracker lover,") were murdered in the arson of Freddy's Fashion Mart.
Anyway, Obama appears with a broad grin on his face, arm in arm with the individual whose hate speech helped provoke this incident, along with the anti-Semitic Crown Heights riots.
Threats of violence are not only inexcusible, but probably criminal. This applies every bit as much to Sharpton's National Action Network's threats to burn Freddy's Fashion Mart to the ground (as it did before one of Sharpton's followers acted on the threat) as to the individual who are physically threatening Obama.
The right's two great weapons in dialog are the "straw man" (Liberals say this...) and the ability to change the topic to fit their point.
I am not sure we were talking about Al Sharpton, but instead some people's (Republican, Conservative, Christian, Hill-Billy, Retard (all the same most of the time)) inability to allow the idea (idea) of a Black man as president. Not to mention if he is the best candidate , best qualified...
Why this is so hard to see past I am not sure. But let me tell you one thing. I will vote for Obama in the primaries. I will vote for him in the finals, even if he is not the final Democratic candidate.
He is the Anti-Bush, at a time when our country's survival is dependent on getting rid of the mess made by 8 years of the bushies.
Obama was the top of his class at Harvard Law school, and by the accounts of several teachers, the brightest student they has ever seen at HLS.
He was never given anything, but worked for it all.
He is able to see and admit his mistakes.
He is a real Christian. (Bush, it is no secret in the right circles gives two craps about religion. He made a deal with Pat Robertson to trade votes for evangelical influence.)
He has a command of the English language.
He has compassion for other humans.
He is not an ideologue.
That being said, I have to admit that I was educated quite a bit about Al Sharpton after looking up the charge about Freddie's fashion mart. Not all of that was true, but some things were troubling to me.
I voted for him in the last primaries due in great part to his answer to a question in the debates.
Q:"you said Bush lied to the American people about the reasons for the war in Iraq. Why do you think he did that?"
A:"Thats what liars do, they lie."
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