About Obama...
Let me first say that most of you know I'm a die-hard Republican. Those of you who don't might be shocked by the realization, mostly because I'm always broke, but still. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I voted the McCain/Palin ticket, a fact I'm not ashamed of in the slightest. This is not, however, a message borne out of the bitterness of defeat. In point of fact, I wish Barack Obama the best in the White House in the coming term. He was elected in our democratic republic via established means, and therefore has the full honor of knowing he won this election because the people support him. May that support not falter. It is, instead, an open letter to everyone who's openly gloated about this victory, in my face, for all the wrong reasons all day.
I will continue by saying that no matter how you voted, I'm simply glad that you did. If you didn't, and you were able, you should be quite ashamed of yourself. It isn't just a right, it's a civic duty and a responsibility. I will also assure the lot of you that I am no more racist than anyone else, but I won't say I'm not at all. After all, like Kate Monster is so fond of singing, everyone's a little bit racist.
To the heart of the matter:
I am terribly sick of everyone claiming that the impossible was done last night. I'm sick of people blindly praising Barack Obama for doing something "revolutionary", or "being so brave", or any of that other nonsense simply because he's black. I turned off the television in the middle of an election last night for the first time in twenty years because the entirety of the liberal media played the "race card" all night instead of devoting time to Obama's character and platform.
I don't believe Barack Obama is a revolutionary. I don't think it took any particular courage to run, and I don't believe that the first black President did anything super-special to get there except the same thing that all his white predecessors had done. I don't believe I should've been subjected to an entire evening of "let's all relive our hardships" simply because a black man was running for office. Did you guys miss Alan Keyes eight years ago? Do I need to remind you that I've been preaching since before Clinton was elected that Colin Powell should be our next president?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding things, but I always thought "equality" meant "everybody gets treated the same." Apparently, that's not the case, and I totally missed the part of the show where our entire nation took on the Animal Farm notion that equality really means "some are more equal than others."
Perhaps I'm just a bigoted cracker, but I personally find the whole grounds for celebration to be self-deprecating in nature. "Yay, a black man won the election!" seems like a step backward, as it implies he couldn't have done so with the same platform if he were white. I believe that doesn't show much support in Obama's beliefs themselves, but rather that the American people thought "a black guy would bring change."
This is the same thinking that keeps the United Negro College Fund, which was terribly necessary in the middle of the last century, in place as a monument to segregation. It's the same line of thinking that keeps BET on the air when an equivalent from descendants of western Europeans would be tagged as "racist" and "bigoted". This is the same line of thinking that has yet to completely abolish Affirmative Action, the most racist concept to invade western business in centuries.
If we truly want equality, and we should, then we should all be the exact same amount of equal. I shouldn't owe you a damn thing, and you shouldn't owe me. We should judge each other based on our merits and flaws as people, rather than our skin color, national origin, gender, creed, or sexual orientation.
But that's not what the minorities really want, apparently, as they keep jockeying for special treatment and calling it "equality."
What the fuck?
I will continue by saying that no matter how you voted, I'm simply glad that you did. If you didn't, and you were able, you should be quite ashamed of yourself. It isn't just a right, it's a civic duty and a responsibility. I will also assure the lot of you that I am no more racist than anyone else, but I won't say I'm not at all. After all, like Kate Monster is so fond of singing, everyone's a little bit racist.
To the heart of the matter:
I am terribly sick of everyone claiming that the impossible was done last night. I'm sick of people blindly praising Barack Obama for doing something "revolutionary", or "being so brave", or any of that other nonsense simply because he's black. I turned off the television in the middle of an election last night for the first time in twenty years because the entirety of the liberal media played the "race card" all night instead of devoting time to Obama's character and platform.
I don't believe Barack Obama is a revolutionary. I don't think it took any particular courage to run, and I don't believe that the first black President did anything super-special to get there except the same thing that all his white predecessors had done. I don't believe I should've been subjected to an entire evening of "let's all relive our hardships" simply because a black man was running for office. Did you guys miss Alan Keyes eight years ago? Do I need to remind you that I've been preaching since before Clinton was elected that Colin Powell should be our next president?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding things, but I always thought "equality" meant "everybody gets treated the same." Apparently, that's not the case, and I totally missed the part of the show where our entire nation took on the Animal Farm notion that equality really means "some are more equal than others."
Perhaps I'm just a bigoted cracker, but I personally find the whole grounds for celebration to be self-deprecating in nature. "Yay, a black man won the election!" seems like a step backward, as it implies he couldn't have done so with the same platform if he were white. I believe that doesn't show much support in Obama's beliefs themselves, but rather that the American people thought "a black guy would bring change."
This is the same thinking that keeps the United Negro College Fund, which was terribly necessary in the middle of the last century, in place as a monument to segregation. It's the same line of thinking that keeps BET on the air when an equivalent from descendants of western Europeans would be tagged as "racist" and "bigoted". This is the same line of thinking that has yet to completely abolish Affirmative Action, the most racist concept to invade western business in centuries.
If we truly want equality, and we should, then we should all be the exact same amount of equal. I shouldn't owe you a damn thing, and you shouldn't owe me. We should judge each other based on our merits and flaws as people, rather than our skin color, national origin, gender, creed, or sexual orientation.
But that's not what the minorities really want, apparently, as they keep jockeying for special treatment and calling it "equality."
What the fuck?