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How Racism Works...



What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?

What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?



What if Obama were a member of the Keating-Five  (for you that may not have been born yet, The Keating Five was five senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major scandal as part of the large savings-and-loan crisis)?

What if McCain were a charismatic, eloquent speaker?



What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said 'I do' to?

What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?



What if Michelle Obama was a wife who not only became addicted to painkillers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?

What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?



If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the

election numbers would be as close as they are?



This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.



With America facing historic debt, two wars, stumbling health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc. consider...



Educational Background:



Obama:

Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.

Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude



Biden:

University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.

Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)



vs.



McCain:

United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899



Palin:

Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester

North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study

University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism

Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester

University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism

 

Sadly that's the American general mindset (not all, but mostly is true for the general population)... I often call it that little white picket fence world that they live in, and information vs. spoon feed regurgitated propaganda, truth vs. comfort and general acceptance of the conditioned living, where life isn't that tough, but hardships are reasonable and our standards of living are generally acceptable.  We shrug, hope it gets better, and those who have it all and are well off, have no worries, while the others the poor and the masses struggle day by day to make ends meet, but it's acceptable, not knowing what really to do to make a difference.

We as a society and a nation have grown to become sects of isolated communities, wherein we life in our person dimensions that we only regard our own household and com-miserate with our fellow man, saying how bad things are, but still we have found a sense of comfort in our misery and struggle and leave it alone, afraid that it might get worse..

Then our personal prejudice, and willingness to accept propaganda truisms and onslaughts of mass media information that little more than brain washing  and fear inducing programs that echo our own little devils that we mask in polite and unimposing suggestions and actions. But this election I hope Americans wake up and smell the coffee, that these rose bushes of promises that we are being sold stink with manure.  (By the way I speaking of McCain and Palin, to be clear.) 

But since the Kennedy and Nixon debate, where TV was first used, and the media became a potential instrument and tool in political campaign changed the face of the canidates and the politics.  75% of the people who watched it thought Kennedy won, because of his appearance, 65% who heard it on the radio thought Nixon won it because of his words.

This point being made and now bringing it to present date, if you give a person a picture, and say something over and over and over again, even if it isn't true, it becomes truth because it was repeated and visualized over and over and over again, and using prenotions and suggestive language edging that fine line where scratch those not-so-nice qualities and characters that we humans snuggle down deep in our unspoken shame, to rouse those little ugly heads that whisper those little unpleasant thoughts where racism, fear, doubt comes to blind a person and a nation of people to reason. 

We are wondrous and terrible creatures in soul and heart, and what we as a person, as a people and as a nation truly strike wonder and terror in me.

Just my thoughts...

Scaramouche.... in Twilight's Shadow... a Dream...