Sunday, June 29, 2008

The underlying racism against Obama

These are the types of emails that the closet racists are sending out to mislead people. I compare these tactics to those that the Nazi's used to play to German resentment and hatred of the Jews that aided in the election of Hitler. I walked through the German history museum last year in Berlin and I can easily see the comparisons.

I find it hard to believe that people think this is alright to pass along. These emails make me embarrassed to be an American and I love my country. I wonder if these people do because this is not advancing our society, it's turning the clock back to a time that we recognize as a dark period in our history.

This is why this election is historic. We cannot give in to this disguised racism and hatred. What is also alarming is the number of emails that this chain has already gone through.




<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>> EMAIL I RECEIVED TODAY

--- On Sat, 6/28/08, wrote:
From: Subject">Subject: Fw: Fwd


Subject: FW: Books

Please read and heed! If you don't read anything else, read the last statement Obama made.

Think you know who this man is? This possible President of the United States !! Read Below and ask yourselves, is this REALLY someone we can see as the President of our great nation!!!!

Below are a few lines from Obama's books; In his words!

From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertisemy mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when Ibegan to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiatingmyself to whites.'

From Dreams of My Father :'I found a solace innursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosityagainst my mother's race.'

From Dreams of My Father:< /U>'There was somethingabout him that made me wary, a little too sure ofhimself, maybe. And white.'

From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side youwere on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and namenames.'

From Dreams of My Father:'I never emulate whitemen and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into myfather's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all theattributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'

And FINALLY the Most Damming one of ALL of them!!!

From Audacity of Hope:'I will stand with the Muslims should the politicalwinds shift in an ugly d irection.'

* If you have never forwarded an e-mail, now is the time to Do so!!!! We CANNOT have someone with this type of mentality running our GREAT nation!! I don't care whether you a Democrat or a Conservative. We CANNOT turn ourselves over to this type of character in a President. PLEASE help spread the word.


--- On Sat, 6/28/08,

1 comment:

Jonathan said...

Nice to see that the quotes from the book were given in their proper context when put into the email. How can you be surprised by such an email? I'm sure this is tame in comparison to the anonymous letters Barack gets in the mail.

I feel like we are only a generation or two away from racism no longer being a deciding factor in elections. Race will still play a major role but not in the sense that someone will not get votes because of their race. With the explosion that is underway in the hispanic population, election will look much different in the not too distant future. However, it is no secret that race is a big issue between the black and hispanic communities too. And I'm willing to predict that if Barack doesn't win in November, we will see a hispanic president before a black one, just based on current demographic trends.