Posted by
Arik on Friday, October 10, 2008 9:49:30 PM
Every day, now, it seems that someone is crying racism, every time someone has the audacity to criticize Obama.
When Sarah Palin claims Obama is
"Palling around with terrorists," referring to Bill Ayers, who is by the way, white, and an unrepentant terrorist, Palin is called racist for supposedly invoking the fear of Islamic terrorists.
Mccain is called racist for calling Obama
"That one" during the debate. I, personally, thought it was a little awkward, maybe "This guy" would have sounded a little better, but I certainly didn't think the words were synonymous with "Black guy."
And then, best of all, the Obamorons at that most moderate of sites,
Democratic Underground, (Try to spend five minutes at that intellectual wasteland wothout having your head explode) see Palin as a racist for wearing a white outfit, saying she "ought to put on a white hood and light up a cross." They then go on to call her a despicable human being.
I don't like Obama's policies, I don't like the direction he thinks this country should go, and I think his associations, which, taken separately, might not be so troubling, give a picture, when taken as a whole, give a picture of a man with not much respect for the Constitution, the rights of the individual, nor the intelligence of the American People as a whole.
In other words, as Joe Biden once said, I judge him, not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.
There is a story I heard as a child called "The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf." I think this story would be helpful to the Liberals out there, if there are any out there capable of learning the lesson.
It involves a little boy watching sheep in a pasture. He gets bored with his job, and calls out "Wolf, Wolf!" to watch the villagers come running out to save the sheep. Of course, they get pretty angry when there is no wolf there, and go grumbling home. Later, the boy does it again, and again, and fewer and fewer villagers come, as they stop believing the boy. Finally, a wolf actually does come, and when he calls out, no one believes him, and all the sheep get eaten.
The moral of the story, obviously, is never buy a sheep farm. But, beyond that, there is a lesson, that if you keep crying out imaginary threats, sooner or later, no one will be listening when there is a real threat.
Does anybody actually listen when Jesse Jackson cries "racism" anymore? Does anyone hear anything but a dull hum when Al Sharpton starts blathering on and on? Has anyone actually heard a word Louis Farrakhan has said in the past twenty years?
By crying racism at every turn, these people numb us to the real thing when it actually happens. Most of us live and work with people of different colors and ethnicities every day, and don't think anything about it. We are trying to live in a color-blind world, but those who see racists behind every tree won't let us.