We actually live at a time of humor. Particularly if you consider the racial hypocrisy which survives in this nation of good people. We wouldn't want anyone to know we are still racist conscious 150 years after the Civil War ended which set the slaves free. That's not what started the war but it was the high note of its ending.
Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was the most public surviving member of the Old South, that still said that the separation of the colors was the best way for the nation to survive. Congressman Trent Lott praising the old Senator before his last days in office said, if Senator Thurmond had been elected President, we wouldn't have the trouble in America we were having, during the time of Reverend King's drive of equal right for the colored people. Lott's words angered some and he had to resign from his legislative leadership in Congress.
Senator Reid from Nevada, leader of Democrats, writes a book about the 2008 campaign and said he favored Senator Obama for President because he was a light colored black who could talk like everybody else that was white when he wanted to or could talk like a black guy if he wanted. That his raised the ire of those who are really keyed up on saying something that sounds racist, and they went right first.
What makes this funny to me is that all of us do-gooders who (God forbid) would not want everyone to know we are really racist at heart are the quickest to take offense.
This whole racial thing is ridiculous. The equality in the work place is important and that's what Reverend King promoted. The elimination of prejudice because of color difference will exist for another 150 years if we can gain from this frailty that we're superior to something and somebody.
You can say the same thing for religious differences also. I love God more than you do. If you don't believe like I do, I know where you're going ol' buddy.
And how about my political party? You're a pinko and I'm saving America. That ain't the way I see it - You want this nation to be a dictatorship, run by religious bigots and rednecks.
I get tired of other people saying “get over it.” That's the way I feel. Get over it - let's get serious.
Robert M. Green
El Dorado
