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2008 Soap Box Archives Racism In America Some of the statements in last week's soapbox titled, "History" have proven to be inaccurate, insofar as the British government removing the Holocaust from their academic curriculum. It was brought to my attention by an old and dear Jewish friend of mine, who also thought the information to be accurate. I
apologize to my readers for giving you erroneous information However, the article does reflect a growing anti-Semitic climate in Western Europe and there are many Muslims who claim the Holocaust never happened. President Ahmadimijhad of Iran, is a case in point. Racism in America I am not an expert on politics by any stretch of the imagination, but I have been an observer as American history has unfolded for the past seventy-one years. I remember all Presidential elections since Roosevelt and I've never seen one to compare with the one we are going through this year. To be perfectly honest, in my opinion, I don't see any way that America can come out of this election without the racial tensions in this nation reaching a boiling point and right now, before things get out of hand we should be putting on the brakes and not listening to the voices of division and hatred. For the first time in American history, a black candidate has a very good chance of gaining the most important job in the world, which means that we've come a long way in the last few decades and should view our progress s a great accomplishment. But instead of declaring Obama's apparent nomination as a milestone in American politics special interests are willing to exploit the fact that he is black for their own greedy purposes and to the determent of race relations in this nation. A totally irresponsible statement by Howard Dean could well be the harbinger of the heat to come in this race. He said that for anybody to bring up Jeremiah Wright and the incendiary anti-American remarks he made when discussing Barack Obama's candidacy was racist. Well I can't say I'm surprised at Dean. Consider the source. It's just another Deanism, a man who is abrasive, inconsiderate and downright foolish if he really believes his own statement. How can bringing up any part of Obama's past life and past associations be racist? Is anything off-limits or out-of-bounds with any candidate, regardless of race, when you're passing out the nuclear codes? No, it isn't and it shouldn't be. Are Dean and his ilk so greedy to win an election that they're willing to further tear the races apart? I'm afraid so, and look for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to enter the fray before long. Now Barack Obama has a right to go to any church and ascribe to any religious doctrine he so chooses, and to hang out with whatever people he wants to, domestic terrorists notwithstanding, but neither he nor his campaign can expect the American people let some glib-tongued political blowhard gloss over his past. When he's Barack Obama, private citizen, his judgment and associations are his own business, but when he becomes Barack Obama, Presidential candidate, it becomes the American public's business up to and including his middle name. What this whole thing boils down to is that Howard Dean and his compatriots want to paint every hard to answer question about Obama's past as racist. This is simply not true and Howard Dean knows it. I want to make a statement right here and right now. I don't think Barack Obama is the right choice for President but it has nothing to do with the fact that he is black. The simple truth is that I am a patriot, and I simply want what's good for America, and I feel that Obama's domestic policies will take the country down a path of social programs so expansive and expensive that the nation simply cannot afford the tab. I also feel that his cavalier attitude toward commerce would force more companies out of business or out of the country. I feel that he is lost when it comes to the War On Terror and his willingness to meet with the leaders of terrorist regimes without a pre-decided agenda simply shows the naivety of a young man who is not ready to play in the big leagues. It is my fervent feeling that if America's military gets as broken as it did under the last two Democratic Presidents, that we won't have time to get it fixed again, and I just can't see Obama being an effective commander-in-chief of our armed forces. So far Barack Obama is carrying close to ninety percent of the African-American vote. I can certainly understand this. Of course black Americans are proud of what Obama has accomplished and want to see our first black President elected, and nobody is or should be accusing them of racism. But it's time for America to be color blind and gender blind when it comes to politics, but that means that the candidates are going to have to stand the glaring scrutiny of national campaigns without them or their handlers trying to strain every statement made about them or every question asked about them through their own personal sexual or racial circumstances. These are serious times. What do you think? Pray for our troops God bless America Charlie Daniels May 12 , 2008
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