Race Relations Be Damned
May 15th, 2008 | by Papamoka |When I woke up this morning it was 2008 and not 1968. Trust me, my five children let me know that fact is true every single day. In 1968 I was five years old and now I have my youngest that is five. In each of their eyes they do not see the color of a persons skin but the heart of the friends they choose. Race is not an issue in their eyes or heart and I thank God above that we as parents have been able to raise them without that ugly personality trait.
America was a very separatist society back before 1968 and in the progress that has been made in all that time since many African American’s have prospered and were finally free to be the potential person that they could become. My child has the potential that is the same as any African American and all they have to do is work for it and earn it. That is the American way. Then you hear the draw back on the polling numbers and reports of whites verse black voters and race lines in the vote and it all disgusts me to the bone. MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX did a non stop reporting of why white people would not vote for Obama in West Virginia and the undertone that I perceived as a viewer was that they were playing the race card simply because one of the candidates is a black man and the other is a white woman. Basically, they labeled everyone that didn’t vote for Obama as a racist.
We don’t need hate in America for or against fellow American’s in any form, function, or broadcast. It serves no purpose other than to divide us as a people and prove out that ignorance of another human being is not only contagious but full of contempt. In the past decade we have seen separation of American’s based on wealth and this kind of thought on race bashing only serves that style of degradation of our people even further. It’s truly up to you as an individual to say enough is enough.
I’m just guessing but I think there are several different America’s and in parts of our nation there is still a racial problem. All of the MSM made West Virginia sound like the KKK headquarters and frankly that scares me. They single handedly manipulated the race for President into a racial bias and they sold it all across the airwaves and then the newspapers the next day.
My kids will grow up color blind and wear one pink sock and one blue sock to the school of life and if they are happy then so am I. No offense intended to the people of West Virginia that voted on the issues and not the color of a persons skin but the MSM made your state look like the racist capital of the United States.
Papamoka
Originally posted at Papamoka Straight Talk
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2 Responses to “Race Relations Be Damned”
By rube cretin on May 15, 2008 | Reply
Papa,
bless you. Excellent post. The MSM was just sharpening their knives for the general election with this race thing in West Virginia. Hell I no longer put anything past them. Unfortunately it still works and this election is now a toss up IMHO. I never believed folks would vote for GWB, but they did it twice!
By Gorbe on May 16, 2008 | Reply
I wonder why it is hip to make fun of nerds, geeks and intellectuals but it is somehow off-limits to rightly identify a large part of West Virginia as uneducated, uninformed and backwards.
Elitist to say so? Then what does it say about people that make fun of the educated? Do we have a label for that? Or is it just full steam ahead to mock those with enough brain power to see the “gas tax holiday” as a sham.
Unlike a large chunk of West Virginians that were apparently too economically illiterate to know the proposal was just plain useless and counter-productive.