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what I'm looking for are specific policies that Obama holds or statements he has made that make you lump him in with Clinton, Romney and Giuliani and which are in contrast to Paul.
Universal (read: Federal) Health Care for one. Again, make the federal government smaller, and let the individual states decide if they want to institute statewide health care.
He says that he wants the troops out of Iraq, and yet, "In March 2007, speaking before AIPAC, a pro-Israel lobby, he said that while the U.S. 'should take no option, including military action, off the table, sustained and aggressive diplomacy combined with tough sanctions should be our primary means to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons.'" I'll repeat part of the "should take no option ... off the table" - does that mean we are not ruling out glass-parking-lotting the whole area? Iran is not our enemy, just like Iraq wasn't our enemy. Outside of tagging bin Laden, we should never have been there at all like Paul said. Look into the petrodollar to see why I think we went into Iraq in the first place.
You said you have issues with Obama, yet you are defending him. Why do you like him? What has he said and what policies does he hold that makes you favor him over all the others? What makes him a better candidate than Paul?
However that context exists, and to deny it, and then aim accusations of racism at people who have the temerity to make issues of race visible by highlighting and working to oppose otherwise invisible inequality, is about as far from the spirit of Dr King as you can get.
I find this to be disingenuous. I also think that most of this context exists because it is self-imposed if only out of "racial pride." I've heard more times than I care to remember that black people refuse to take certain jobs because they don't want to "whiten-up." That means (according to them), not talking in ebonics, dressing appropriately for the job (suit/tie/blouse/skirt/etc...) and so on. This is more of a cultural issue than anything else, though. I've actually see white people in the ghetto, laughing at other white people for acting too "white," whatever the hell that means. The stupidity and ignorance abounds. The only place I can think of where people are genuinely discriminated against are with cops. There's even a term for it - "driving while black." But that context gets fuzzy again since the same holds true for people with grateful dead and phish stickers on their cars.
In no place I have worked in has there been a disproportionate number of white people to anyone else of color. Where I work now (state office job), white people are actually a minority. Sudanese, Pakistani, Hispanic, Indian, Black, Asian, and on and on. It's really cool actually, we have an international food day every year where people bring in dishes from their own cultures. But that is off the point. The point is that as far as I've seen, any actual racism is either entirely self-imposed (as Ron Paul implies), or incredibly overblown by the media. |
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