...What's up with all this racism?
When I first realized that Obama was most likely going to be our next President (or at least had a realistic shot at it) I was pretty excited. I really like Obama as a person. I feel he presents himself as a sincere and honest man who really hopes to do good for this country that has strayed off the path. His message of tolerance and coming-together as Americans made me feel like ... well... it could actually happen! He, like myself, is a mutt. Half n' Half. The older white people in this country have had a really tough time dealing with the fact that minorities might not be the minority in another 50 to 100 years and I felt like maybe a halfsie as President would help them to start making that transition.
Unfortunately, it appears that the GOP camp has been doing everything they possibly can to try to rally up their base (rich white males and females who are apparently deathly afraid of brown people) and make sure that they become terrified of anyone who doesn't look like them.
After 9/11, people in the Western world became terrified of Middle Eastern people or even people who LOOKED Middle Eastern. To go even further, one could say that the white people in this country became pretty much terrified of anyone who wasn't white. I remember I was 17 years old and going to school in Boston when 9/11 happened. Maybe two days after the tragedy, I was walking through Chinatown when a parade of white men in loud cars drove through the streets. The cars they were in had American flags all over them and they were driving through Chinatown yelling things at the Chinese-Americans living there. And .....not nice things. These people were as loud as possible and I don't think it was any coincidence that they decided to make a procession through the streets of the Chinese district. I was so angry. But what was I going to do? Things died down a little after "war" was declared and we entered Iraq where some brown people who had nothing to do with 9/11 but who LOOKED enough like the brown people who had everything to do with 9/11 could be used, I suppose, as a substitute to make Americans feel better about what happened.
Eight years later and we are seeing it all again! But it is scarier now, in my opinion. More dangerous.
By now I'm sure everyone has seen or heard of the exchange that happened between McCain and one of his supporters at a rally.
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