When I read the near hatred expressed toward Ms. Walsh from Obama supporters it confirms my deepest fear, which is that we as humans are condemned by our own lack of humanity and our overwheming stupidity. Ms. Walsh's post is a marshmallow critique of Mr. Obama's discourse on race, and if the resulting anger I read expressed is what is to be expected in the near future--as more and more of the true Mr. Obama is exposed--we need to all take cover now.

For all those apologists and victims, slavery in America is over. No living Americans participated in it. Both people of color and women have been slaves in America, and neither are now. This cannot be said for African countries, where slavery began and slavery continues today.

The results and lasting impressions of slavery will always be present, the same way we will always remember the Civil War, as they all help form our collective being. America is today the flower and all that came before her the seeds, and the good and bad have intertwined such that we are all simply part of the whole.

That being said, we have laws and programs to address inequities that have resulted from unfairnesses of the past. Affirmative action, welfare, Section 8, and thousands of other programs give assistance to those who need it. No other country has done more than America to help her citizens share the dream.

However, you cannot simply give equality as each citizen must step up and seize it. Job training must then lead to a job search and then retention of the job. Apartment assistance must be matched with job training and job retention. Children must come after economic stability, or the latter will never be achieved. Self respect must be earned as in the end if it does not come from inside it is merely a facade. Hard work has always been part and parcel of the American Dream, and as flawed as our founding fathers may have been regarding the true and rightful position of all humans--women and people of color--they knew that they would achieve nothing without sacrifice and hard work. That work ethic, which made America the greatest country in the world, is lost on many, and thus they are lost too.

Women and people of color may never "get over" what happened in the past, but if we do not seek equality through good acts, hard work, and fair treatment of others we become worse than the enemy because in addition to allowing hate to guide us we become hypocritical. There is nothing worse than a hate-driven hypocrite. Nothing.

And that is why Mr. Obama, Reverend Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and any formerly oppressed person waging war on the enemy using the same weapons as their named enemy and at the same time claiming moral highground and thus the right to do it are more dangerous than the original wrongdoers. This level of hypocrisy knows no bounds, and this level of hatred knows no limits. The victim seeks ultimate payback, and if you listen to these men speak they want death and destruction to come to the enemy. All non-blacks should heed this as a warning, because you are the enemy according to these men and no punishment is severe enough.

I challenge Americans to confront racism and sexism head on, to look in the mirror and accept your failings, and then judge Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama. One has worked hard to help America, loves America and Americans, and while may not be perfect is constantly trying to improve, and the other one does not love America, does not love most Americans, and feels that they are without fault. What America needs now, almost more than even before she came into existence, is love, not hate. And while some Obama supporters claim inability to love Mrs. Clinton, please note that she is not on record as hating approximately 50% of living Americans. This fact is the only one of import in the upcoming election, because if we rationalize hatred and excuse it we become our own worst enemy. Words matter, but actions matter even more. Mr. Obama listened to hatred for twenty years, and did nothing. Because of those words and his non-action, he has become the hypocritical enemy. For this I do not hate him, but rather I pity him because hate is never the answer. And because of this Mr. Obama can never be President of My America. Never. Never. Never.

John McCain said he would rather run against Hillary Clinton on National television. Monkey say, smart monkey do opposite, smartest monkey do what he says. The Republican machine will grind up the novice Senator Obama in a minute, whereas Mrs. Clinton can hold her ground, and win, against the best they can put up (which appears to be McCain). Voters know what voting for a Republican means, and they know what voting for a Clinton means, and MOST OF US don't want to risk this country finding out what voting for an Obama means. Certainly not now, when we are so weak on all fronts. America needs a good proven leader right now, and this smartest monkey is voting Hillary Clinton.