Sunday, October 26, 2008
THIS IS YOUR NATION ON WHITE PRIVILEGE
This is also from my friends Facebook Page:
"By Tim Wise [A national anti-racism trainer]
For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who
are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it,
perhaps this list will help.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol
Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your
family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you
or your parents, because 'every family has challenges,' even as black
and Latino families with similar 'challenges' are regularly typified
as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
White privilege is when you can call yourself a 'f''''n' redneck,'
like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone
messes with you, you'll 'kick their fuckin' ass,' and talk about how
you like to 'shoot shit' for fun, and still be viewed as a
responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather
than a thug.
White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six
years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of,
then returned to after making up some coursework at a community
college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to
achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as
unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first
place because of affirmative action.
White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town
smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state
with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island
of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people
don't all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S.
Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means
you're 'untested.'
White privilege is being able to say that you support the words 'under
God' in the pledge of allegiance because 'if it was good enough for
the founding fathers, it's good enough for me,' and not be immediately
disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was
written in the late 1800s and the 'under God' part wasn't added until
the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and
terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you
used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous
and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.
White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make
people immediately scared of you.
White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an
extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the
Union, and whose motto was 'Alaska first,' and no one questions your
patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your
spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with
her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's
being disrespectful.
White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and
the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of
women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end
to child labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if
you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month
governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in
college--you're somehow being mean, or even sexist.
White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even
agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your
running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the
ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made
them give your party a 'second look.'
White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your
political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being
a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and
merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in
Chicago means you must be corrupt.
White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose
pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize
George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly
Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian
theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who
say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for
rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good
church-going Christian, but if you're black and friends with a black
pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of
Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign
policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on
black people, you're an extremist who probably hates America.
White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by
a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you
such a 'trick question,' while being black and merely refusing to give
one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging
the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.
White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has
anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being
black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a
'light' burden.
And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly
allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W.
Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing,
people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is
increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters
aren't sure about that whole 'change' thing. Ya know, it's just too
vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, -
which is very concrete and certain.
White privilege is, in short, the problem."
"By Tim Wise [A national anti-racism trainer]
For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who
are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it,
perhaps this list will help.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol
Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your
family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you
or your parents, because 'every family has challenges,' even as black
and Latino families with similar 'challenges' are regularly typified
as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
White privilege is when you can call yourself a 'f''''n' redneck,'
like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone
messes with you, you'll 'kick their fuckin' ass,' and talk about how
you like to 'shoot shit' for fun, and still be viewed as a
responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather
than a thug.
White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six
years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of,
then returned to after making up some coursework at a community
college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to
achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as
unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first
place because of affirmative action.
White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town
smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state
with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island
of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people
don't all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S.
Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means
you're 'untested.'
White privilege is being able to say that you support the words 'under
God' in the pledge of allegiance because 'if it was good enough for
the founding fathers, it's good enough for me,' and not be immediately
disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was
written in the late 1800s and the 'under God' part wasn't added until
the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and
terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you
used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous
and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.
White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make
people immediately scared of you.
White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an
extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the
Union, and whose motto was 'Alaska first,' and no one questions your
patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your
spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with
her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's
being disrespectful.
White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and
the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of
women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end
to child labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if
you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month
governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in
college--you're somehow being mean, or even sexist.
White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even
agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your
running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the
ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made
them give your party a 'second look.'
White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your
political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being
a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and
merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in
Chicago means you must be corrupt.
White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose
pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize
George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly
Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian
theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who
say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for
rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good
church-going Christian, but if you're black and friends with a black
pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of
Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign
policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on
black people, you're an extremist who probably hates America.
White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by
a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you
such a 'trick question,' while being black and merely refusing to give
one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging
the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.
White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has
anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being
black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a
'light' burden.
And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly
allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W.
Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing,
people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is
increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters
aren't sure about that whole 'change' thing. Ya know, it's just too
vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, -
which is very concrete and certain.
White privilege is, in short, the problem."
Flip the Script!
The following is from a Facebook note of a firend I graduated from high school with, her name is Kiera and I liked it so much I had to post it here:
"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 McCain were still married to the first woman to whom he said 'I do'?
What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no
longer measured up to his standards?
What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to
pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable
organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama were a member of the Keating-5?
What if McCain were a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
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.
You are The Boss... which team would you hire?
With America facing historic debt, 2 wars, stumbling health care, a
weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, mortgage crises,
bank failures, trillion dollar Federal bailouts of private
corporations, etc.
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
Now, which team are you going to hire ?
PS: What if Barack Obama had an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter...."
AMAZING is all I have to say!
"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 McCain were still married to the first woman to whom he said 'I do'?
What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no
longer measured up to his standards?
What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to
pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable
organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama were a member of the Keating-5?
What if McCain were a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
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.
You are The Boss... which team would you hire?
With America facing historic debt, 2 wars, stumbling health care, a
weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, mortgage crises,
bank failures, trillion dollar Federal bailouts of private
corporations, etc.
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
Now, which team are you going to hire ?
PS: What if Barack Obama had an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter...."
AMAZING is all I have to say!
Sexism vs. Racism
As I was watching MSNBC this afternoon, they interviewed a couple of women, both democrat and republican, and most of them said that the news media (that "liberal media elite") was being unfair and sexist toward Sarah Palin. In addition to this, at a Palin rally in Florida today Elizabeth Hasselbeck (co-host of The View) stated this about the reports on Palin's clothing, “Now, with everything going on in the world, seems a bit odd,” Hasselbeck said. “But let me tell you, this is deliberately sexist.”
First off, let me just state that some of the treatment Palin has been getting is a bit sexist, just like when Hilary Clinton was running there were some sexist moments. One example of the sexist treatment Palin has taken is when her daughter was discovered to be pregnant people said instead of pursuing higher office she should be at home taking care of her children. As the son of a single parent I know that a woman can do more than just one thing at a time, and no one would've asked a man a question like that, why isn't Obama taking care of his two daughters, that would be a good question for him.
But, here is my problem, when Palin is questioned about the RNC spending $150,000 on clothing for her (which is more than the cost of Joe the Plumbers house) it's sexist, but when she suggests that Obama doesn't see America "the way WE do," or that he pal's around with terrorist, when we know people think he's Arab, or constantly promotes the fact that this black man is "different than US," and then says nothing about the people at her rallies throwing out racial epithets and threatening her own sound technician (who is a black man), it's not okay to say that she promotes peoples racist fears. The fact that she is all up in arms about sexism, but promotes and feed off of the racist rage of many (not all) of her supporters.
She's not doing it so much now (because it's not working nationally) but they were playing on peoples racist emotions in states like Virginia and Florida and western Pennsylvania. It's the "hockey moms" and "Joe six pack" vs. Barack HUSSEIN Obama, an Arab, Black, Muslim, terrorist, socialist. I mean seriously, who is Joe six Pack, no one in my neighborhood. Furthermore, the only hockey mom's I know where the one's at my all-white high school, and they were terrified to even live next door to a black family.
So, basically all I'm saying is people who live in a glass house shouldn't throw stones, because just like she has no sympathy or seemingly no care for the racism that has been thrown Obama'a way (which she has been egging on) she shouldn't expect anyone to have sympathy for the sexism that's being thrown her way.
First off, let me just state that some of the treatment Palin has been getting is a bit sexist, just like when Hilary Clinton was running there were some sexist moments. One example of the sexist treatment Palin has taken is when her daughter was discovered to be pregnant people said instead of pursuing higher office she should be at home taking care of her children. As the son of a single parent I know that a woman can do more than just one thing at a time, and no one would've asked a man a question like that, why isn't Obama taking care of his two daughters, that would be a good question for him.
But, here is my problem, when Palin is questioned about the RNC spending $150,000 on clothing for her (which is more than the cost of Joe the Plumbers house) it's sexist, but when she suggests that Obama doesn't see America "the way WE do," or that he pal's around with terrorist, when we know people think he's Arab, or constantly promotes the fact that this black man is "different than US," and then says nothing about the people at her rallies throwing out racial epithets and threatening her own sound technician (who is a black man), it's not okay to say that she promotes peoples racist fears. The fact that she is all up in arms about sexism, but promotes and feed off of the racist rage of many (not all) of her supporters.
She's not doing it so much now (because it's not working nationally) but they were playing on peoples racist emotions in states like Virginia and Florida and western Pennsylvania. It's the "hockey moms" and "Joe six pack" vs. Barack HUSSEIN Obama, an Arab, Black, Muslim, terrorist, socialist. I mean seriously, who is Joe six Pack, no one in my neighborhood. Furthermore, the only hockey mom's I know where the one's at my all-white high school, and they were terrified to even live next door to a black family.
So, basically all I'm saying is people who live in a glass house shouldn't throw stones, because just like she has no sympathy or seemingly no care for the racism that has been thrown Obama'a way (which she has been egging on) she shouldn't expect anyone to have sympathy for the sexism that's being thrown her way.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Obama Bucks
OK, so I have been watching CNN (yea I know, the 'liberal' media right, whatever), and I have seen two things that are atrocious. The first thing I saw was this "Obama Bucks" picture circulated by the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated. It's a republican organization and that's about all I know about it. Now, the president of the organization, Diane Fedele, did say it was not her intent to offend people, but seriously, you have got to be kidding me. She went on to say that these are foods that all people eat and it wasn't her intent to stereotype Obama (a black man).
You know what....Please!
OK, fried chicken, watermelon, KOOL-AID, and BBQ ribs on a FOOD STAMP and you mean you didn't mean to offend or stereotype. I went to a school of 800 kids with a black population of only 5-7, and over the course of 4 years I was asked if I ate fried chicken, watermelon, and drank kool-aid at least a total of 100 times, in addition I have been asked on numerous occasions if my family had ever been on welfare. Even the dumbest fool in the nation knows that these are stereotypes of African Americans and it's not a secret so don't sit up and say "oh that was not my intent, everyone eats those foods." And I read on these conservative blogs that we (African Americans) are just being overly sensitive, are you kidding me. That woman knew darn well what she was doing when she did it. In fact, a member of the group (an African American woman) said she cried for 45 minutes when she got the email, in fact her quote was this "This is what keeps African-Americans from joining the Republican Party," she said. "I'm really hurt. I cried for 45 minutes." She also said that she had been working tirelessly to convince African Americans that the Republican Party was for them and now she feels betrayed, but I guess she is just being 'overly sensitive,' how dare she have the audacity to be outraged about a stereotype of her people to lessen their dignity as Americans, let alone human beings.
The second story I saw was about home that has a ghost or something with the Star of David on its head and Obama on its chest hanging from a rope, I can't find the video, but I did just see it on CNN.
I have no idea what is going on in America, it's one thing to disagree with the policies of a candidate but it seems that people can't win an argument without characterizing someone as unAmerican or unpatriotic or less than American due to race or religion. First it was the Catholics with Al E. Smith and JFK now it's Obama for being 'Arab' and now for being African American. I mean what is it... is it our educational system (I know that's not the greatest), is it something in the air or the water.
And what type of fool would ever even consider either of these to not have something to do with Obama's race, I'm not trying to pull the race card but let's call a spade a spade, loose the political affiliation bull-crap and stand up as an American and call for an end to the stupidity of racial, ethnic, and religious bigotry that plagues this nation and has done so since it's inception.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
"Personal Responsibility"
OK, so lately, and by lately I mean since I have been in college (2005), I have been hearing this whole “personal responsibility” rhetoric thrown around, mostly by conservatives. Now, normally I just think “how stupid” and get over, but I recently had a mini debate with someone about this issue and realized how selfish of a term that really is when applied to politics.
Conservatives usually tout the whole “personal responsibility” thing when it comes to what they call welfare spending.
The actual word welfare has several different meanings and connotations; I will take the third one, as it relates to this rant of mine: “financial aid and other benefits for people who are unemployed, below a specific income level, or otherwise requiring assistance, especially when provided by a government agency or program” (aiding people in need also is listed as a definition). So, when we talk about aiding people in need, for the greater good, what does that mean?
The government provides numerous kinds of assistance: municipalities provide fire, police, water and sewer, schools, and sometimes health care (county hospitals, etc.); states provide law enforcement, corporate regulation, and give “aid” to municipalities to help with their governmental obligations; the federal government provides for the common defense, interstate regulation to keep her citizens from being taken advantage of, national law enforcement, and aids those who, usually because of local circumstances, cannot provide for themselves adequately.
So all these seem like worthy causes to a Christian, most followers of Christ would agree that a person who is down and out should receive some sort of help, but then they turn and say “personal responsibility.”
On the south-side of Chicago there is many a child who wants to go to college and make something of him or herself, but because his or her mother (who is already working two jobs) cannot afford it, it is not an option. But I guess what that person should take “personal responsibility” and find a higher paying job which does not exist considering we have really been in a recession since 2001.
Or, how about the millions of Americans who though they had good health insurance but then they were diagnosed with a terminal illness and their plan dropped them, or the college student who lost his or her health insurance at age 21 or 22 and cannot work enough to pay for medical care and go to school, oh maybe they should just use their “personal responsibility” to pull health care out of the sky?
In a nation as wealthy and as “Christian” as ours is we should be dying to help those in OUR OWN SOCIETY who may be less fortunate. I completely understand that there are some who abuse the system; a minority of a minority does this. Over 200,000 hardworking people in Ohio have lost their jobs over the past eight years (CNN.com), these were hardworking Americans, doing what they were supposed to do, but because of the “leadership” of the Bush administration they have lost their jobs and health care, but it’s their fault for not picking a stable job (many of them had been working at the same place for 18-25 years) right?
I say if we want to go off on the whole “personal responsibility” kick, dismantle the federal government and let the states become independent nations and do for themselves. My family’s tax money can no longer go to fund a road to a bridge to nowhere in Alaska or to some low income woman who decided to have a child with a “birth defect” in Louisiana, or to help fund the education of some kid who can’t pay his own way through college, it’s the “fair” and “responsible” thing right? Is it Christian, heck no!
People think the majority of people on welfare are unemployed, unmotivated minorities living in urban slums that just don’t want better, not so. Most of the people who receive welfare are white and live in rural communities. In addition, what constitutes welfare? Unemployment is a type of welfare, federal highways funds is a type of welfare, federal college grants and subsidized loads, grants to local law enforcement, defense programs, home heating assistance to the poor and elderly, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, community block grants, libraries, public schools, charter schools, law enforcement, water and sewage collection (if provided by a municipality), garbage collection, and even tax exemptions for non-profits such as churches and charities, everyone should exercise their own “personal responsibility.”
I know I might be taking it to the extreme but it is not logical and defiantly not Christian to have that position and to take that position only because of what one assumes, is just not intelligent, review the facts and don’t believe the hype, seek truth for yourself and don’t be somebody else’s mouthpiece.
Conservatives usually tout the whole “personal responsibility” thing when it comes to what they call welfare spending.
The actual word welfare has several different meanings and connotations; I will take the third one, as it relates to this rant of mine: “financial aid and other benefits for people who are unemployed, below a specific income level, or otherwise requiring assistance, especially when provided by a government agency or program” (aiding people in need also is listed as a definition). So, when we talk about aiding people in need, for the greater good, what does that mean?
The government provides numerous kinds of assistance: municipalities provide fire, police, water and sewer, schools, and sometimes health care (county hospitals, etc.); states provide law enforcement, corporate regulation, and give “aid” to municipalities to help with their governmental obligations; the federal government provides for the common defense, interstate regulation to keep her citizens from being taken advantage of, national law enforcement, and aids those who, usually because of local circumstances, cannot provide for themselves adequately.
So all these seem like worthy causes to a Christian, most followers of Christ would agree that a person who is down and out should receive some sort of help, but then they turn and say “personal responsibility.”
On the south-side of Chicago there is many a child who wants to go to college and make something of him or herself, but because his or her mother (who is already working two jobs) cannot afford it, it is not an option. But I guess what that person should take “personal responsibility” and find a higher paying job which does not exist considering we have really been in a recession since 2001.
Or, how about the millions of Americans who though they had good health insurance but then they were diagnosed with a terminal illness and their plan dropped them, or the college student who lost his or her health insurance at age 21 or 22 and cannot work enough to pay for medical care and go to school, oh maybe they should just use their “personal responsibility” to pull health care out of the sky?
In a nation as wealthy and as “Christian” as ours is we should be dying to help those in OUR OWN SOCIETY who may be less fortunate. I completely understand that there are some who abuse the system; a minority of a minority does this. Over 200,000 hardworking people in Ohio have lost their jobs over the past eight years (CNN.com), these were hardworking Americans, doing what they were supposed to do, but because of the “leadership” of the Bush administration they have lost their jobs and health care, but it’s their fault for not picking a stable job (many of them had been working at the same place for 18-25 years) right?
I say if we want to go off on the whole “personal responsibility” kick, dismantle the federal government and let the states become independent nations and do for themselves. My family’s tax money can no longer go to fund a road to a bridge to nowhere in Alaska or to some low income woman who decided to have a child with a “birth defect” in Louisiana, or to help fund the education of some kid who can’t pay his own way through college, it’s the “fair” and “responsible” thing right? Is it Christian, heck no!
People think the majority of people on welfare are unemployed, unmotivated minorities living in urban slums that just don’t want better, not so. Most of the people who receive welfare are white and live in rural communities. In addition, what constitutes welfare? Unemployment is a type of welfare, federal highways funds is a type of welfare, federal college grants and subsidized loads, grants to local law enforcement, defense programs, home heating assistance to the poor and elderly, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, community block grants, libraries, public schools, charter schools, law enforcement, water and sewage collection (if provided by a municipality), garbage collection, and even tax exemptions for non-profits such as churches and charities, everyone should exercise their own “personal responsibility.”
I know I might be taking it to the extreme but it is not logical and defiantly not Christian to have that position and to take that position only because of what one assumes, is just not intelligent, review the facts and don’t believe the hype, seek truth for yourself and don’t be somebody else’s mouthpiece.
She aint like my momma!
Ok so everyone is talking about this Sarah Palin, that she is “just like me.” All these suburban “soccer/hockey” moms are saying, “OMG she is just like me.”
Please…! She aint like my momma!
This is the thing that kills me, it is literally killing me. Everyone is all about a candidate that’s “just like me.” Well you know what, there is a candidate that’s “just like me,” a black man from the south-side of Chicago that is well educated, articulate, and driven, and yet he is portrayed as “un-American.”
I know, I know, I just won’t get over the whole “un-American” thing, I can’t. It seems to be somewhat over now, maybe, but the fact that all these “soccer moms” or hockey or whatever they are seem to be all about this woman, not because she is great on the economy, not because she will help fully fund education, not because she has a somewhat coherent plan on any of the major issues (minus abortion), but simple because “she’s just like meeeeeeeee,” yay it’s so wonderful and great and the world is full of sunshine and rainbows so we don’t have to worry about other issues right?
Let me tell you something, my momma aint like Sarah Palin, my grandma aint like Sarah Palin, in fact, I only know of one mom who I have ever met who comes even remotely close to Sarah Palin, and with all she has to worry about it’s beyond me why she would even support this woman.
I grew up in a home with a single working mother, she worked two jobs (until she put me in Catholic school and then worked three to four), and we NEVER received one red penny of “welfare.” Now, maybe it’s because I come from a middle class African American household and neighborhood on the south-side of Chicago and everywhere else in the world people are like Palin, maybe I live in a bubble and that’s why I don’t know any woman that is “like her.”
Just about every woman that I know isn’t as sarcastic and self-righteous as she is; now that was mean of me, let me explain. I say she is self-righteous because she feels she is the “American woman.” She portrays herself up as more “real” and more “moral” than Obama, who just like her has a stable marriage and family, unlike her, his children aren’t out having premarital sex (now that’s mean).
Morals, her morality is flawed. To sit and constantly imply that a man, who certain uneducated and racist folks already think is an Arab (I will stop there because we all know the expletives that have been yelled out at Palin/McCain rallies-yes, Palin/McCain because that’s how its being run), cohorts with a terrorist, or to imply that he doesn’t support America, well I know no woman, soccer mom or not, who sits and gossips to the destruction of a good man’s character.
It’s one thing to debate the issues (say, abortion), it’s another to destroy a man’s character with lies or misrepresentation, my momma aint like that, and that’s a fact. My mother is a strong woman (a term in the Black community that they say is “strong, black, independent woman,” you know like Oprah lol), and she isn’t any man’s mouthpiece (like Palin is for McCain), she has her own opinion and her own voice. They say she’s a “pitbull in lipstick,” I think her rhetoric is just bull.
Now, this is about the meanest I shall get for a while, but it just BURNS me up when people feel they have the lock and key on morals.
Wake up AMERICA! Stop voting for people just because they “seem nice,” or they “look good.” There are way too many issues, if I voted for every person who was “just like me,” then I can only think of one politician I could ever vote for; I’m black and Catholic so both of those take away a vast majority of people on both sides of the political spectrum. So in short, she aint like my momma……………………Peace!
Please…! She aint like my momma!
This is the thing that kills me, it is literally killing me. Everyone is all about a candidate that’s “just like me.” Well you know what, there is a candidate that’s “just like me,” a black man from the south-side of Chicago that is well educated, articulate, and driven, and yet he is portrayed as “un-American.”
I know, I know, I just won’t get over the whole “un-American” thing, I can’t. It seems to be somewhat over now, maybe, but the fact that all these “soccer moms” or hockey or whatever they are seem to be all about this woman, not because she is great on the economy, not because she will help fully fund education, not because she has a somewhat coherent plan on any of the major issues (minus abortion), but simple because “she’s just like meeeeeeeee,” yay it’s so wonderful and great and the world is full of sunshine and rainbows so we don’t have to worry about other issues right?
Let me tell you something, my momma aint like Sarah Palin, my grandma aint like Sarah Palin, in fact, I only know of one mom who I have ever met who comes even remotely close to Sarah Palin, and with all she has to worry about it’s beyond me why she would even support this woman.
I grew up in a home with a single working mother, she worked two jobs (until she put me in Catholic school and then worked three to four), and we NEVER received one red penny of “welfare.” Now, maybe it’s because I come from a middle class African American household and neighborhood on the south-side of Chicago and everywhere else in the world people are like Palin, maybe I live in a bubble and that’s why I don’t know any woman that is “like her.”
Just about every woman that I know isn’t as sarcastic and self-righteous as she is; now that was mean of me, let me explain. I say she is self-righteous because she feels she is the “American woman.” She portrays herself up as more “real” and more “moral” than Obama, who just like her has a stable marriage and family, unlike her, his children aren’t out having premarital sex (now that’s mean).
Morals, her morality is flawed. To sit and constantly imply that a man, who certain uneducated and racist folks already think is an Arab (I will stop there because we all know the expletives that have been yelled out at Palin/McCain rallies-yes, Palin/McCain because that’s how its being run), cohorts with a terrorist, or to imply that he doesn’t support America, well I know no woman, soccer mom or not, who sits and gossips to the destruction of a good man’s character.
It’s one thing to debate the issues (say, abortion), it’s another to destroy a man’s character with lies or misrepresentation, my momma aint like that, and that’s a fact. My mother is a strong woman (a term in the Black community that they say is “strong, black, independent woman,” you know like Oprah lol), and she isn’t any man’s mouthpiece (like Palin is for McCain), she has her own opinion and her own voice. They say she’s a “pitbull in lipstick,” I think her rhetoric is just bull.
Now, this is about the meanest I shall get for a while, but it just BURNS me up when people feel they have the lock and key on morals.
Wake up AMERICA! Stop voting for people just because they “seem nice,” or they “look good.” There are way too many issues, if I voted for every person who was “just like me,” then I can only think of one politician I could ever vote for; I’m black and Catholic so both of those take away a vast majority of people on both sides of the political spectrum. So in short, she aint like my momma……………………Peace!
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