Since the start of this administration, the hatemongers have been working hard to cast their racism upon and into it. Racism is not the only foul stench emanating from these people who seem to have lost their collective minds, the hate literally has them foaming at the mouth.
The current political atmosphere reminds one of those early years on the playground with the bullies picking on the kids who could not or would not fight for themselves. These bullies were usually the “popular” kids, who thought the world revolved around them. As much as the former administration was disliked, no liberal interrupted President Bush as he spoke from the senate floor. No liberal was blatant enough to voice their hopes of President Bush’s failure even though many thought it. Racism, in and of itself, is a powerful weapon as it is fear based on myths; it is fear based on the unknown; it is fear based on misconceptions. Hate is also a powerful weapon but the root of hate is a nameless, mindless and careless entity bent on destruction. Hate has no sanity to it, no rationale. Hate does not care about the truth or the right and wrong of a thing, it is blind beyond anything the human mind can comprehend. So, when one combines racism and hate it is tantamount to a nuclear weapon. Once unleashed, the damage is devastating, the pain is deep, and the fallout is far-reaching and deadly.
During the campaign this pitifully rancid group, used his acquaintance with two persons who spoke against some of the policies of this nation, albeit one served this country not only in one branch of the military, but two. Last year when a renowned Black college professor was arrested due to mis-communications and over-reaction from those involved, our president entered the foray and spoke from the aspect of being a man of color. Although he brought the parties together for a beer in the garden to do some healing; the rabid dogmatic rants became frenzied and flurried attacks of racism against Mr. Obama. In the arena of race-baiting, this administration is being controlled in a similar fashion to how Pavlov trained the dogs. Last year, Van Jones fell victim and resigned due to the shenanigans of this rancid group of citizens and they have done it again. President Obama is once again between a rock and a hard place. Andrew Breitbart, who assisted in the de-mantling of the group ACORN, has caused an older Black woman, Shirley Sherrod, to lose her job under the guise of “evening the charge of the NAACP that there is racism within the Tea Party movement”. Mr. Breitbart posted an edited clip of Mrs. Sherrod and by her own words it could lead one to assume that she practiced racism. The edited clip started the political and media firestorm that caused the Department of Agriculture to fire Mrs. Sherrod. The responsible thing would have and should have been to view the entire content of the clip, which addresses healing, before making any hasty decisions, but if there had been hesitation, this rancid group and their supporters would have felt smug in their vitriolic rants that President Obama is a racist. An interesting thing is during the Bush administration; Karl Rove kept his job despite the many calls from liberals for his removal. The only person to leave under pressure was former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and that occurred after a few years.
The most pitiful thing in all of this is the fact that this rancid group claims a religion that advocates peace, loving one’s neighbors and enemies, and doing what is right for the least. To be angry with or even hate this group is a waste of emotion. They do not realize that they are doing more harm than good, re-opening the wounds of this country, that although not completely healed, the scab was forming. If they truly followed their religion, they would know that the religion is about unity not division. This rancid group’s behavior is visceral and they are unraveling the great strides this country has achieved for cohesiveness. With their conduct, what they fail to realize is that, “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves”.[1]
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