Letters to the Editor
Taliesan
Published Letters: 942 Editor's Choice: 19
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Anonymous
[Read the article: Michelle Obama gets real]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What you don't realise is that the Republican slime machine doesn't work anymore.
It has failed, repeatedly, due to the fact that it has been so over-used that people no longer pay any attention to it. As a trick it was a powerful one in its day, but like all one trick ponies, the Republican slime machine has started to look tired.
Obama has been tested, he was tested in Illinois and he was tested in the Senate. He actually has more experience then Hillary Clinton when you come right down to it, and anybody who thinks Hillary is a fighter should maybe look at her voting record. It isn't so much that she votes Republican, its that she is your prototypical beltway Democrat, right down to the cowardice.
Obama is a strong candidate, and he stands a chance of unifying America, the question really should be, does America want unifying? After all of the Republicans acts over the last few years, do you want to let bygones be bygones?
If so, vote Obama. If not, vote Edwards. That is the real race if you want a decent president, Obama V Edwards, because both offer a good direction you can take; Obama will unite you and bring calm to the nation, Edwards will fight like hell to hold people accountable - which won't unite or calm you but might prevent this mess happening again, and will mean getting a fighter.
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Okay, to the black posters here talking about racism.
[Read the article: Is race dying? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am going to say some things which are horribly racist, but pretty much true.
Maybe the problem is no longer racism, but rather a culture which has adopted victimhood as its central ideology. You were enslaved, what? A hundred years ago? Well so were the Indians from India and they were considered better slaves then you.
Now, Indians are seen as being a population of doctors.
Sure, nasty thugs don't like you, well guess what, the Jews have the same problem, or haven't you ever heard of neo-Nazis?
Now the Jews are the most powerful lobby in America.
White people in history were bad people, to everyone, including other whites like the Irish. Yet so far it seems that while whites have tried to fix things they have been insulted, denigrated as racists and constantly guilt tripped for what their ancestors did.
This is what is so refreshing about Obama, he doesn't buy into it and for once, we have a black guy who has risen above his history instead of wallowing in it.
While we all agree that there are bad white people out there, we all agree black guys had it rough, we also note that while blacks have demanded appology after appology India and China have become successful and Zimbabwe has become a hellhole - just like pretty much the rest of Africa.
South Africa? Sure, Mandela was good, the current president is about as bad as Bush, is an AIDS denier, and comes with the added benefit of crime statistics more in line with those reported in a warzone. The next one looks to be a guy who had unprotected sex with a woman he knew to have AIDS, and who is currently under investigation on corruption charges.
All of this is not to say that black people are inferior. Black people aren't, there are Mandelas out there, there are great and sometimes heroic figures, but there is something wrong with this culture of "blame whitey." Whitey is sick of that crap and it was generating a racist backlash back before 9/11.
Speaking as an African, born and raised in Africa, black people are not inferior, they are not weaker, less intellegent, less able or otherwise lesser to anyone else.
But, this is a problem within black culture that needs fixing because no-one, no matter what their skin tone or the shape of their nose can succeed so long as we have this albatross of history hanging around our necks.
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Anonymous
[Read the article: Is race dying? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Go to the cops with what you know. These guys are dangerous criminals and you have a civic duty in this case to see that they pay for their crimes.
And if you feel afraid because of their actions, they are not your friends.