American and Proud

MSNBC (Olberman’s crew) have this story up:

As Sen. Barack Obama opens his campaign as the first African American on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape.

Whole Story here

My Friend Texas Fred has a terrific editorial on his site about this.

Wow, three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice, 30% of the nation is honest, how about that!

Everyone, no matter who you are, no matter what color your skin is, no matter where you’re from, whether you’ll admit it openly or not, some won’t even admit it to themselves, but everyone has at least some racial bias or prejudice, it’s just a question of who has the guts to stand up and say it without fear of repercussions.

I am going to add a little to it.

Imagine the Reverend Wright along with these two… oh THEN CALL ME A RACIST.

Race relations are bad according to the MSNBC’s target pollies. WHAT WAS LEFT OUT IS WHAT RACE? They talk about Black and White, but left out the Latino (Brown, Hispanic…Whatever; I don’t want to offend anyone)

I do not see the Black/White race relations being strained because of Obama, I see the strain because of folks like Sharpton, Jackson, Farrakhan, Wright and their supporters. folks like Byrd and some other WHITE leaders are just as guilty.

IMO the victim mentality and the “Blame the man for my crack addiction” as well as the “Gimme” mentality that is so prevalent in the inner cities and enabled by folks LIKE OBAMA is the biggest strain on race relations between blacks and whites. Case and Point:

Bill Cosby was publicly chastised for telling Black fathers that they need to take responsibility for their actions…..OBAMA says the same exact thing and we hear NOTHING, not a peep.

Race relations are not as strained between black and white as they would like you to believe. NOW Relations between ILLEGALS and BOTH Black and White is severely strained.

In some areas of the inner cities Blacks and Mexicans are strained, and mostly because the ILLEGAL element is taking a piece of their “Gimme” pie, not to mention the jobs are scarce and the illegals work cheap.

So Race relations between all are somewhat strained big freakin deal, Is the media darling Obama going to repair them? I seriously doubt it. He will deepen the divide because of his relationship with Wright we can take a look at the future…

And for those of you that think my Relationship with Fred is the same thing, it is. Think about it for a minute, I am not a racist, I don’t hold ALL of the same views Fred does, BUT I don’t have to tell yo which ones we disagree on, I am not running for office so disclosure is not my bane.
Perhaps you are looking at my views in the future when you are reading Fred’s site? could be right? so why would you give Obama a pass on Reverend Wright?

While I am not a racist, I am an AMERICAN first kind of guy and when I see a problem I will address it here in a pretty straight forward way, if you don’t like it bail out, pull the chord and we’ll never speak of it again.

Folks blogging on this:

Texas Fred

Wild Thing

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