Obama is Hitler and a New World Order

Thank you Verse, "Thank You Verrrrrry Much"!

But nobody, including the mesmerized media, wants to look at his actual record.

No, that is not what I am saying. Please read what I have written. Affirmative action did not institute a game plan where all of the discrimatory, exclusionary practices that were government sanctioned activities and abuses were flipped and reversed  to be practiced on others.

Thanks Mikasi, Karen and Mpress.

I too am against affirmative action whereby in many cases minorities bypass others to get jobs over experience. The US even have policies in place to help Minority businesses in order to bid on Government contracts. So yes, I strongly agree with Mpress. On the other hand, your Constitution states "All are Equal", so if Racism was not so friggin predominate in this country of the US of A, then Affirmative Action would be obsolete.   That I am sure we can all agree on.   I cannot believe even in this day an age both Democrats and Republicans are blatantly Racist towards Obama.  As I have always been taught, you may not have to respect the man, but you do have to respect the position he holds.  Personally I am rooting for McCain, only because he is Conservative as I am.  But if the Majority of American people elect Obama or McCain President,then those who feel he should not be President, I am sure are more than welcome to move to another country. That is their Right and that is their Freedom!

Somehow, when toting up grievances, it seems that sexism, which dealt hundreds of years of grievances against women, and racism against Native Americans, which dealt genocide, just seems to get brushed aside. There's been many kinds of discrimination in our nation's history. Pretty much, that's the story of the entire world, sad to say.

The Romans had slaves. The Greeks had slaves. The Romans tried to destroy the indigenous peoples of the British Isles (gooooo Boudicca!). On and on.

What counts is this--the U.S. has a clear and continuing history of trying to correct itself and improve. No, it ain't perfect. Perfect doesn't exist. But, unlike many people, I recall, even though I was only a child, moving from an integrated society where my friends were many races and creeds and winding up  living in backwater segregation. Life was hell for many--including some of my very successful black friends who couldn't go to college in their home states (but now are famous, famous).

Racism against Native Americans gets swept under everyone's carpet. Politically speaking, every time the NCAI goes to the black caucuses for help or joint efforts, the black groups slam the door. Even though many Native Americans have worked tirelessly against *all* racism, the facts and actions of black political groups have created the perception in Indian Country that many black agitators simply can not abide "sharing the stage of victimization" with any one. And that's a great sore point.

Affirmative action at one point had its place, I think. Many employers had to be forced into a new age and told "don't tell us that you can't find qualified, show us you can." But now, look around us--different races,creeds, both genders, all working in every job you can think of.

And that's progress. And that's something to be proud of. It didn't come easy. It didn't come without harsh prices. But we all did it.

What I'm worried about, and see happening: backlash. We have as much equality of opportunity as has ever existed in the world, and the proof positive is all around us. But some are never satisfied, and some will not deal with the present, but want some sort of payment in bloodied skin forever more for something 150, 200, 300 years old.

Some of my relations were among the last warriors to go to imprisonment. One of my good friends still carries the ugly tag his grandfather had to wear as a prisoner at a fort. I could go on and on with the stories.

But that was then. Today we have a new playing field. No, it isn't totally fair--nothing in life ever is. But we have more protections, and more opportunities, than ever before here in the U.S. We're working on it all.

And every time someone says "well, back in 1832" (choose your date) this and this happened so you owe me that" I see people turn away. I see backlash building. And I understand why, even though I and my family could tote out an entire luggage cart of grievance baggage (except that conveniently, I've misplaced most of it and darned well don't miss it).

Racism will never truly go away as long as there are humans. Nor will sexism, war, poverty, abuse, cruelty, lying, cheating, and stealing. If we wait for everything and everyone to be perfect before we let go of every grievance, then we're going to be walking around with a lot of walls between us.

As one of my good friends and shirt-tail kin, who sits on tribal council, says "You can look backward or you can look forward. Depends on what direction you want to go."

Zichi every ethnic group in the world has stereotypes. I'm in the music industry and many black artists and producers have called Latinos "Chico" or "spic" while I am in the room not knowing that I am Latino. What should I have done? quit the job? Your outrage is understood but it is what it is. On TV the liberals in Hollywood allways portray the Latino as a coke head drug dealing wife beater. If you let that get to you you will fail no matter what ethnic group you are in.

You can't argue against that Zichi, but then on the other Hand... Black Comedians, and "Rappers" feed that Stereotype, "Big Time" in their Music, Movies,Language, Video Games, and Music Videos, all with their I am from the Streets Faux Gangstaisms, Calling Women Ho-Bitches, Drug use, Pimping, Bling etc, and the Media are all to quick to pick up on it.

So The Black man is rightly more so to blame!  These are not my words either, but Bill Cosby, Will Smith and others tired of the Homie, Git Down N*gger Stereotypes, Hence why Comedy Clubs banned the N word which was like every second word coming out of a Black Comedians mouth.

Ever listen to Dave Chappelle or Eddie Murphy? On stage, they do Ghetto speak through their entire comedy skits. But in real life, they are articulate, intelligent and well read, now you tell me who is fostering the stereotype of the Black Man, certainly ain't Whitey!  You just know if Dave or Eddie talked that Ghetto Talk like that around their Mothers, they would get the "taste slapped outta their mouths" !

You're welcome and thank you for your comments, Zichi. Those who cast anyone with views different than their own as liberals, whether they call themselves conservatives or however they choose to characterize themselves, spend the majority of the time rewriting history to custom fit a vision of America that has never existed.

From the beginning, America was founded by landholding property owners, who tried to drive off and exterminate the original caretakers of the lands, with a vision toward freeing themselves alone, a vision that didn't even include women of European descent. As they created their New England, they decided, at the formation of the new nation, to continue the custom of slavery.

There are those who would have us believe that there was no racism involved in the custom, merely a set of circumstances that lent themselves to exploitation with no societal consequences other than the inconvenience of millions of Africans and their descendants enslaved for hundreds of years. No beliefs of inferiority of those enslaved was ingrained in the system nor were false assumptions of superiority gained by those involved in maintaining the existence of this system.

There are those who think that once the Emancipation Proclamation was read, in 1863, two years before the end of the so called Civil War, all the enslaved were freed, a fallacy often left unaddressed. The proclamation applied only to those enslaved who found themselves in states that had seceded from the Union.

After the so called Civil War, throughout the year 1865, close to 4 million former enslaved are now freed. To do what? Whatever they chose to do, history tells us the unwelcome reception they received from the country, codified in organized government actions.

Discrimation became a tool first shaped and applied by the use of governmetal structures, adding to established pseudo rationalizations meant to justify any and all actions, creating a near perfect method of control of the unwanted, former enslaved, because they were not included in the vision of the so called founding fathers. They were the antithesis of the defintion of a citizens, as was meant to be their status in this country.

A legacy of calculated, misshapen perpectives cannot be erased from the minds of those who want to believe that when slavery ended, when affirmative action was introduced and any other societal bandage that has been or may be developed and applied to wounds created as a result of systemic racism, unless attempts to ignore the ugly basis upon which the nation was built and its consequences are abandoned.

As far as s**t hitting the fan, that won't be because of some imaginary race based problem among those who voted for Senator Obama, should he win the election. That will be only among those who use any manner of excuse to reject his win because of his race and they all know who they are.