When the election is done and we have our new president we will have to hunker down and work our butts off to heal the country.
I think there will always be an "us" and "them" based on weight or height, or neighborhood, or state, alma mater, interests, single versus married, young and old, etc. I think identifying people by race is OK, too. It's just that we have distorted race to the extreme in America.
I have developed an aversion to people saying "America" instead of The United States of America, but some topics call for it because the same people who prefer to call the United States of America, "America" are the people who luxuriate in racism and call the other party the "Democrat" party (instead of Democratic party).
This racist nonsense just misses the boat and is based on air, based on the need to keep separate poor white people from poor "others", specifically blacks, and make the former somehow feel better because, at least, they're white!
I know I am not all African. Most African Americans are NOT.
So who can be sure they are ALL white? Or only English and French, for example? If most black people have white ancestors, wouldn't you think it would work both ways? How many white people have black ancestry? Or Native American? In America we know the races mixed quite a bit. Well, a lot of black female slaves were raped.
And, besides that, man did originate from Africa (click to read a National Geographic article)!!! Maybe the skinheads (neo-nazis) don't know about that.
Get over it, please. People are people. Race is like hair or eye color, different is not inherently good nor is it automatically bad! But it sure looks bad when people behave the way they have during this election. This melting pot country, composed of people escaping persecution and religious discrimination in their native European countries have evolved to become the racists of the new world. We may not export many goods, but we have managed to export racial hatred around the globe.
Now is our chance to redeem our nation's reputation. We can chastise the folks who jumped on board when that silly McCain worker accused a "black man " of carving a mirror-image "B" in her cheek. What an idiot; she didn't think to write the "B" (for Barack) forward the way the attacker would have!
Hey, and maybe Barbara Walters will throw that other idiot, Elizabeth, off "The View" bus so she can devote herself full time to the mavericky, rogue-ie-ness of Sarah not-a-diva, liar, absentee mother, hockey-curse Palin. Palin seems to be losing most of her following so Elizabeth can be her BFF, and maybe godmother to the 17 year old's baby.
Obama will have a very tough job. If we come together as a country and support his programs and give him the opportunity and the time to repair 8 bad years, we have a chance to not be the fall of the Roman Empire redux!
Obama photo above was taken by my husband, Monroe Anderson, in New Hampshire.
