I just finished a conversation with an older relative of mine who made this assertion several times that if elected President, Obama would tear this country apart. How would this work? By what mechanism would he tear it apart? What could he do as president to tear it apart so it could not function? I want to understand what this is about, but could get no specifics from the person I talked to other than Obama is so far left he cannot lead and it is shameful he was elected to congress. (Would Keyes really have been more centrist?)
Can anyone tell he how this is supposed to come to pass?
He’s so far left that a plurality of the country has voted for him? That only makes sense if your relative things Pat Buchanan is a liberal.
Maybe you should tell him that he had better for Obama or all of us far lefties will riot. :rolleyes:
Is he perhaps afraid that those Blacks he thinks will “rise up and take over” might do to him what his generation did to Blacks?
Tell him not to worry. The majority of Black people have moved past slavery and and the bigotry which still pertsist in some parts. We’ve learned to deal with it, believe that bigots and racists cannot help but be better people in time. They can only rise from their current deplorable condition.
He’s Vietnamese, so I don’t really think that’s the issue. For whatever reason a lot of first generation SE Asian immigrants that I know seem to be rather racist (though most of them are at least a little less blatant about it then the aforementioned grandfather). Happily their children seem to be more open minded and properly embarrassed by their elders views.
I’m thinking Bill Ayers as Secretary of Defense. Arlo Guthrie as Secretary of State. Oprah as National Security Advisor. Tommy Chong as Secretary of Agriculture. Reverend Wright as Director of the CIA.
People from other countries often do not have the same view of racism as people born and raised in the USA (or in my case Canada) do. Here, racism is commonly viewed as an evil. Most people suppress any racist feelings they might have. Racism acted upon in many contexts is a matter than can be referred to civil law, with severe punishments. To call someone a “Racist” is to call into question their very moral worth as a human. There is racism to be sure, but it’s not generally something you discuss in polite company.
**Simplicio’s **grandfather is from a place where racism is just more common and accepted. It is that way in much of the world; in many places racism is accepted truth, and racial distinctions are seen where you would see no different at all. I’m not excusing Simplicio’s grandfather but one should be sensitive to the fact that he grew up in a time and place where our sensibilities about racism were quite unknown.
