Yeah. I guess what really worries me in this context is that there are more people who won’t find the postcard unsettling in one sense or another than who will.
Yes, living with a racist is no bag of jellybeans. Constant commentary (dripping with elitist white man scorn) about how "they're" all going to "party in the streets" when "their boy" makes the White House is enough to make me want to vomit on a regular basis.
Conversely, he seems almost proud that some whacked out fucknut is assuredly putting together a plan to assassinate Obama.
View of the racist around here: "Well, you can hardly expect him to change his opinions now. He grew up in a different time."
Me: "When, exactly, was it acceptable to run around in a state of Worldwide Hate Tolerance, hm? And why did you marry a homophobic racist in the first place? Just what about that seemed *really* attractive?"
- : Silence.
So it will be with an extra dose of enthusiasm that I cast my vote for Obama. Not to rub in the racists' face (because that's just icing on the yummy cake) but because I believe in the guy.
Re: "matter of time..."ursoOctober 20 2008, 00:58:32 UTC
I stand corrected. A quick search online found the Chitlin' Strut in Salley, South Carolina, 110 miles inland from Charleston: http://chitlinstrut.com/
I have spent the last year assuring, promising, cooing my best friend that nothing will happen to Obama. She is, like my self, a southern expatriate and, unlike myself, she is black. She and her family have believed since Obama's initial announcement to run, that some racist would certainly shoot him. They are in awe that he has made it this far and he is still alive. I think a majority of african-americans believe this.
The link did not work, so I proceeded to the user's journal. ?!? I did not find the journal entry of the subject link as I could not read more than a few entries of this man's journal. He uses quotes by Limbaugh and Beck like they are gospel or some kind of trump card. And he is upset that 'friends' are dropping him. I can handle differences of opinion (usually) but this is just illadvised tripe.
He’s been dropping entries fast and furious, it seems; he dropped this entry somewhere around six this morning, which would have been about the time he got the reply I posted at quarter to one this morning…
His last few posts seem to be especially banal, as though he senses that if he posts any more ill-considered political posturing, he’s going to be a little more than just challenged.
I’ll lay my reply on you, though it’s probably a little unfair without access to his original post:
So I’m a member of some monolithic, faceless “Black Community?” Hell, some of that “Black Community” in Buffalo are prominent members of my mother’s family. Try and tell them who to vote for without presenting a damn good line of reasoning. We are a proud, educated line who were perfectly capable of thinking for ourselves since long before we ever got the opportunity to leave the plantations of northern Kentucky and move up and out across Ohio, Pennsylvania and easterly beyond.
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Yeah. I guess what really worries me in this context is that there are more people who won’t find the postcard unsettling in one sense or another than who will.
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Conversely, he seems almost proud that some whacked out fucknut is assuredly putting together a plan to assassinate Obama.
View of the racist around here: "Well, you can hardly expect him to change his opinions now. He grew up in a different time."
Me: "When, exactly, was it acceptable to run around in a state of Worldwide Hate Tolerance, hm? And why did you marry a homophobic racist in the first place? Just what about that seemed *really* attractive?"
- : Silence.
So it will be with an extra dose of enthusiasm that I cast my vote for Obama. Not to rub in the racists' face (because that's just icing on the yummy cake) but because I believe in the guy.
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Less and less frequently do I know what to think about any of this anymore.
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"matter of time..."
That doesn't help, though, to determine the motivation of the designer, however.
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That part was easier to grasp, yeah.
For the record, I will not be making chitlins for the inauguration, and I don’t know of anyone who will be.
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http://chitlinstrut.com/
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Less and less frequently do I know what to think about any of this anymore.
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He’s been dropping entries fast and furious, it seems; he dropped this entry somewhere around six this morning, which would have been about the time he got the reply I posted at quarter to one this morning…
His last few posts seem to be especially banal, as though he senses that if he posts any more ill-considered political posturing, he’s going to be a little more than just challenged.
I’ll lay my reply on you, though it’s probably a little unfair without access to his original post:
So I’m a member of some monolithic, faceless “Black Community?” Hell, some of that “Black Community” in Buffalo are prominent members of my mother’s family. Try and tell them who to vote for without presenting a damn good line of reasoning. We are a proud, educated line who were perfectly capable of thinking for ourselves since long before we ever got the opportunity to leave the plantations of northern Kentucky and move up and out across Ohio, Pennsylvania and easterly beyond.
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