When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Something's rotten in the AP world. An AP story carried yesterday in many papers related discovery of an Obama effigy hung in a tree on a college campus in Oregon.
But the latest response to anyone suggesting that someone or something is "racist" is to call that person 'racist.' I've seen that in my own town. To talk about racism is not 'racist,' which may be defined as follows:
Copyright © 2001-03 Pam Shorey
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'racial undertones' ?
Something's rotten in the AP world. An AP story carried yesterday in many papers related discovery of an Obama effigy hung in a tree on a college campus in Oregon.
Officials of a small Christian university in Newberg, Ore., say a life-size cardboard reproduction of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was hung from a tree on the campus, an act with racial undertones that outraged students and school leaders alike. George Fox University president Robin Baker said a custodian discovered the effigy early Tuesday and removed it. University spokesman Rob Felton said yesterday that the commercially produced reproduction had been suspended from the branch of a tree with fishing line around the neck. [The italicized language went out in an AP story I first read in my local newspaper. the above quote is from Newsday]When I saw the headline in my paper, it was like a kick in the stomach, and I am a Euro-American. I can only imagine how African-Americans would feel.
But the latest response to anyone suggesting that someone or something is "racist" is to call that person 'racist.' I've seen that in my own town. To talk about racism is not 'racist,' which may be defined as follows:
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others. [dictionary.reference.com]
Palema
6:37 AM
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