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Friday, August 1, 2008 07:35 PM

@Nana: I agree

and I am not a "PUMA." I am a pre-menopausal black woman who is SO sick of Obama's false allegations of racism. This guy, whom I do not even see as being a black American, appoints himself the man who should give the speech on racial reconciliation, how we should treat race, and talks down to black people, has the nerve to abuse the very serious allegation of racism. Every time I thin my loathing of Obama could not increase, he surprises me and makes it happen.

I think that the wanton and specious cries of sexism at the hands of some over decades has made it acceptable for people to casually toss around terms like "femininazi," make up terms like PUMA or COUGAR, call for violence against Sen. Clinton (Olbermann), call her a stripper, a madam who pimps out her daughter, say she should not be president because no one wants to see her age, and say that her being a strong person or personality makes her a ball breaker. Allegations of sexism were tossed about without consideration for how serious such discriminatory behavior is and now sexism is not only acceptable, it is extremely profitable. Rape is still a joke (as one of McCain's cronies), homicide is the number one cause of death of pregnant women, acquaintance rape is so common and so hard to prosecute that the Justice Department admits that it cannot keep accurate statistics on it. This is what crying sexism to manipulate situations to ones' favor has gotten us. As a woman, that puts me in a bad spot. It certainly put Sen. Clinton in a bad spot. Reporters, talking heads, Obama supporters, and surrogates said some sexist things, some linked to sexual violence, and if she denounced the sexism, she was just whining.

Obama has a luxury real black Americans do not have: we do not have claim to a) a white parent so that we can say that we are not all black or saying that though we have both or one parent of African descent, we are of immigrant stock and not like those people who rioted in LA, wrapped their arms around OJ, or have been living off welfare, dealing drugs, using drugs, and committing crimes all these years. He has an escape route that the people he claims to be part of and represent, do not.

When people call me an anti-Semite because I strongly disapprove of the US relationship with Israel or basically everything Israel does in terms of the Palestinians, it makes me very angry because my criticisms are Zionism, which makes it a political criticism. I think apartheid was horrible and I think it is horrible in Israel. It has nothing to do with hating Jews, which I absolutely do not. But these irrational accusations against me make me skeptical of other claims of antisemitism because it has become a terms that is used to shame and shut up anyone who does not bow down to Israel.

I hate Obama because I think he is a vapid, manipulative, cynical, empty suit who abuses the harsh legacy and situation of black people. I imagine that there are white people who dislike Obama for those same reasons, more or less, or because they disagree with his politics, or because they like McCain, feel the same way I do when I get called an anti-Semite for not supporting Israel, when they get called racist for not supporting or loving Obama. Obama has created an entire bloc, a movement, of people who are willing to scream "that's racist" whenever anyone says anything that is not glowing about him. He and his groupies are putting blacks closer to the spot women are in when they want to make genuine claims of discrimination.

Are those of you who think that McCain's stupid celebrity ad had racist overtones because it was "dog-whistling" miscegenation serious? The ad was outdated because, as LAPD Chief William Bratton said today, nobody really cares about Britney and Paris anymore. The point of the ad, that Obama enjoys the cultlike adulation and being a celebrity better than a senator, were right on the mark. The ad was nothing like the "Call Me Harold" ad in Tennessee. But, because someone dared to call Obama on being an empty suit who has his political position because of popularity rather than genuine hard work in the government (sort of like Paris is famous for being famous and Britney was famous for willing to be tacky), that person is racist. McCain's ads have been dumb (the oil one was just nuts) or have failed to effectively convey their message. That is not racism.

Obama is riding black people, slavery, Jim Crow, lynching, the black codes, current racism, and now the undermining of potential remedies for future racist incidents to the White House. I hope all of my naive fellow blacks and their progressive white accomplices to this atrocity are proud.

If any of you Obama groupies have a shred of humanity or concern for real black people, consider my plea: stop saying that everything is racist, because there will be a time when this black woman works in a field that, like most, reserves advancement to white men, has to fight for pay parity, the right to an earned promotion, or just basic equality because she was denied it because of the color of her skin. Your beloved Obama and you, his lemmings, keep this up, my options for justice will be nil.

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