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Racial disparity in America…and in this election.

Filed under Politics/Activism by affrodite on September 11, 2008 at 6:52 pm 4 comments

Got this in an email and thought I’d post it… (source: unknown)

If you are biracial and born in a state not connected to the lower 48,
America needs darn near 2 years and 3 major speeches to “get to know
you.” If you’re white and from a state not connected to the lower 48,
America needs 36 minutes and 38 seconds worth of an acceptance speech to
know you’re “one of us.”

If you get 18 million people to vote for you in a national presidential
primary, you’re a “phoney.” Get 100,000+ people to vote you governor of
the 47th most populous state in the Union, you’re “well loved.”

If your pastor rails against inequality in the United States of America,
you’re an “extremist.” If your pastor welcomes a sermon by a member of
Jews for Jesus who preaches that the killing of Jews by terrorists is a
lesson to Jews that they must convert to Christianity, you’re a
“fundamentalist.”

If you give your wife dap on stage, it’s actually a “terrorist fist
jab.” If your daughter licks her palm so that she can slick down your
youngest child’s hair on national TV it’s an “adorable moment.”
(Seriously, forget about abstinence only, teach these folks some
grooming skills).

If you’re 18, white, and get a 16 year old girl pregnant “life happens.”
If you’re 18, black, and impregnate a 16 year old girl, you’re a
“registered sex offender.”

If you’re a black man and you use a scholarship to get into college,
then work your way up to being the president of the Harvard Law Review,
you’re “uppity.” If you’re a conservative and your parents pay your way
to Hawaii Pacific University . . . you only have four more schools to
attend over the next five years before you somehow manage to graduate
(it might be five more schools over the next five years. No one has yet
verified whether or not Palin was actually ever registered at the
University of Hawaii at Hilo. But, you know how shady people are who
ever attended any kind of
school in Hawaii).

If you spend 18 months building a campaign around the theme of “Change,”
it’s just “empty rhetoric.” If one week before your party’s national
convention you SUDDENLY make your candidacy about “Change,” that’s “red
meat.”

If you’re a minority and you’re selected for a job over more qualified
candidates you’re a “token hire.”

If you’re a conservative and you’re selected for a job over more
qualified candidates you’re a “game changer.”
If you live in an Urban area and you get a girl pregnant you’re a “baby
daddy.”

If you’re the same in Alaska you’re a “teen father.” (Actually,
according to your own MySpace page you’re an F’n redneck that don’t want
any kids, but that’s too long a phrase for the evil liberal media to
take out of context and flog morning noon and night).

Black teen pregnancies? A “crisis” in black America.
White teen pregnancies? A “blessed event.”

If you grow up in Hawaii you’re “exotic.”
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you’re the quintessential
“American story.”

Similarly, if you name you kid Barack you’re “unpatriotic.”
Name your kid Track, you’re “colorful.”

If you’re a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fulling vetting the
individual you’re “reckless.” A Republican who doesn’t fully vet is a “maverick.”

If you say that for the “first time in my adult lifetime I’m really
proud of my country” it makes you “unfit” to be First Lady.

If you are a registered member of a fringe political group that
advocates secession that makes you “First Dude.”

A DUI from twenty years ago is “old news.” A speech given without
proper citation from twenty years ago is “relevant information.”

And, finally, if you’re a man and you decide to run for office despite
your wife’s reoccurrence of cancer you’re a “questionable spouse.”

If you’re a woman and you decide to run for office despite having five
kids including a newborn with Downs Syndrome. Well, we don’t know what
that is ’cause THAT’S NOT A FAIR QUESTION TO ASK!

Someone hit the nail on the head with this one! …if that’s fair to
say…

Media vultures are still out on Obama and race

Filed under Commentary by affrodite on March 21, 2008 at 4:00 am no comments

I’m up tonight watching CNN which had Obama on Larry King Live and now Lou Dobbs, and I’m just getting annoyed. They are still going after Obama’s affiliation with Reverend Wright and picking apart every sentence in Obama’s speech earlier this week that inspired me so much. This is just ridiculous. Now he’s being labeled “controversial”. When media vultures harp on race then it gets white people scared and all of a sudden there’s an issue where there was none before.

Back off media vultures! Go chase someone else. I’ll even let you chase Michael Jackson since he’s coming out with that 25th anniversary of Thriller album (which makes me feel old by the way).

I experienced an Obama moment recently at work. The Higher-Ups dissected an email that was accidentally copied to them (note to self…ALWAYS check the names on a distro list). It was a harmless set of 3 emails intended for my co-workers regarding my status of coming into work during the blizzard. I thought they were getting all huffy about a different email and soon realized it was these innocuous emails that put the Higher-Ups into a tizzy. “What do you mean by…?” “I feel you’re trying to negatively influence…” I honestly can’t remember the emails nor do I think they’re still sitting in any of my co-workers’ inboxes. However, the Higher-Ups read every single word over and over then sent my boss over the course of 2 weekends to poke and prod at me. You might as well have locked me in a dimly lit interrogation room like you see in the movies. I know I’m the furthest thing from a celebrity, but if I take a moment to imagine this scenario magnified a million times over and broadcast through every possible media venue, I can see how those celebs end up in rehab, and Lord only knows how politicians handle it behind the scenes.

Don’t crack Obama! Don’t let them trap you with the race card! “…typical white person…” They’ll never let you live that down. They can’t wait to label you something other than a good candidate. They’re preying for a scandal. Lou Dobbs, Barack is NOT creating a race issue as you claim.

Pause…I’m cracking up now that they (CNN) have Geno’s infamous cheese steaks owner(Joe Vento) from Philly talking about his court win regarding a sign (really a sticker) insisting that people speak English to get service. “This is America, Please Speak English.” I never went there while we lived in the area because I believed a story that someone told me that they had a cockroach in the cheese steak they ordered. That just grossed me out. Now, I’m a rumor spreader. Eat there if you want. I don’t want a lawsuit because I said I heard a story about cockroaches in their cheese steaks Good! Let’s obsessively focus on that stupid ass story instead, so Obama can go back to addressing bigger issues.