Nov. 24, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Please let me record that I am disgusted with "race" based politics that is based on claiming other "races" are trying to harm your "race," or that other "races" owe your "race" something and that it will be your job to extract from those other "races" whatever you claim is owed. I also do not like legacy kids getting promotions not based on merit.
Ethnic groups (there is actually no such thing as "race" -- 96 percent of African black slaves over the 300 years of slavery went south of our border but we call them Hispanics -- "black" diseases are found in "whites" -- it just comes down to village and skin color -- and ultimately just village -- which we rename as ethnic) always will be a bit biased toward members of their group -- but it need not be to the point that it is the only thing that matters in giving your vote.
As a member of a group that only recently became "white" and was not "white" when I was growing up (The eugenics movement to save the white race, defined as Brits, Dutch, Germans -- Northern Europeans -- had a U.S. law passed in 1924 to nearly prevent "non-white" immigration to the United States and that law was not repealed until 1965. So I am "white" only since 1965), I understand prejudice more than most African Americans will agree is possible, and I understand loyalty to your group, but I do not understand, and indeed hate, the "race baiting" that is the Jesse Jackson, Jr., way of politics and indeed was the Obama -- "Clintons are racist" -- campaign method.
I guess I should be happy that the racist Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, the corporate philanthropies like the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune, and of course the Henry Ford and Prescott Bush families of the early 20th Century, implemented eugenics on this side of the pond via the "no "mix" marriage" laws and immigration restrictions -- such a nice "breeding" approach -- when they could have gone the route of their fellow travelers in Europe and "culled the herd" via death camps.
Obama won dirty -- and we will all be paying for that "racist" approach for years.
We do not need Jesse Jackson Jr in the Senate.
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