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Historic Day

Posted by JayPeriod on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:00:46 AM
Despite what we think or believe about Barak Obama, today truly marks an historic day.  Today, he becomes the first non-American to become President of the United States of America.  That, my friends, is historic.

Oh, and he's the first African American to become President. (Sorry, Bill!)

All this aside, I hope this becomes a day when we can finally put racial tension and anger behind us.  We are now the first nation in history to have someone from a minority group to be democratically elected to lead their nation.  For this to happen, it took a great number of whites to vote for him.  Even among those whites who did not vote for him, most did not do so because of his skin color, but because of his awful policies.  Sure, there will be those whites who truly hate him for his color, but let's be honest, there are blacks who truly hate whites for their skin color.  Racism, as I have stated before, is not reserved for only one race.

As Conservatives, we can now proceed in one of a couple of ways.  First, we can be bitter and do everything in our power to take this man down.  That, of course, would make us no better than the Reid's and Pelosi's who are so destructive to our country.  Second, we can go forward working to protect our nation from dangerous policies, realizing the man is separate from his policies, showing the nation how to respect someone you disagree with and how consumed with hate the Democrats are.

In either event, Conservatives need to regroup and prepare for 2012 so we do not have to endure a full eight years of these horrible policies.  We should not surrender nor roll over.  It is time to fight.

For this historic day, I am proud to be an American, showing the world no matter how evil they think we are, we are the best nation on Earth.

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Reverse Discrimination

Posted by JayPeriod on Monday, August 25, 2008 12:10:38 PM
As the general election is drawing near, look for racism to creep its ugly head more and more into the picture.  We experienced this two years ago in Tennessee.  Many threw around the word racism when white Republican Bob Corker defeated black Democrat Harold Ford, Jr.  Our state was impugned as racist because we wouldn't elect this extremely liberal Democrat.

Sure, there will be people across America (not just in the south) who will not vote for Obama just because he's black.  Hey, there are people who won't vote for a woman, a Catholic, etc.  Prejudice and bigotry exist.  There's no getting around it.  Most Americans, though, have and want nothing to do with that kind of attitude.  Maybe.

As more and more people are polled, though, we are seeing another, softer, form of racism.  How many people are replying that they will vote for Obama because he's black.  If that is their only reason for voting for him, or their main reason, isn't that racism as well?

If we as a country really want to move beyond racism, shouldn't we be addressing it in all its forms?  Yet, we don't hear about this other form in the mainstream media.  We only hear about the form that seems to perpetrate the idea that white America is bad.  Just as the media played up the so-called racism in Tennessee (which had a very clean campaign in this area, I might add), nothing was done or said about the same situation in Maryland where black Republican Michael Steele was defeated by white Democrat Ben Cardin.  There were accusations of racial overtones, yet the mainstream media downplayed it and brushed it under the rug.  Of course, no one accused the citizens of Maryland of being racist for not electing Steele.

Personally, I'm ready to move on from the racism of previous generations.  I wish more people in the mainstream media were as well.  Yet, as we are sure to face this new form of racism, where people will vote for Obama because he's black, we can never move forward.  If we can't look at the issues and who is actually best prepared to lead, this will be a moster we'll face for years to come.

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