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That's an excellent letter though I am tired of the assumption that only conservative whites exhibit racist tendencies...that's simply not true.
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Date: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:27 pm
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> From: Richardllowe
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> Sent: 9/21/2009 4:25:54 P.M. Central Daylight Time
> Subj: Fwd: FW: A Must Read Editorial
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> PLEASE READ AND SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS...
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> Calm, Peace, UNDERSTANDING and discretion..
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> LONG BUT WORTH READING
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> Read what a White Reporter wrote in a Georgia Newspaper (YESS)
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> Andrew M. Manis is associate professor of history at Macon State
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> Andrew M. Manis: When Are WE Going to Get Over It?
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> For much of the last forty years, ever since America "fixed" its race
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> problem in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, we white people
> have been
> impatient with African Americans who continued to blame race for
> their
> difficulties. Often we have heard whites ask, "When are African
> Americans
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> "When are we White Americans going to get over our ridiculous
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> with skin color?
> Recent reports that "Election Spurs Hundreds' of Race Threats,
> Crimes"
> should frighten and infuriate every one of us. Having grown up in "
> Birmingham
> " Alabama in the 1960s, I remember overhearing an avalanche of
> comments
> about what many white classmates and their parents wanted to do to
> John and
> Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
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> Eventually, as you may recall, in all three cases, someone decided to
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> Since our recent presidential election, to our eternal shame we are
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> again hearing the same reprehensible talk I remember from my boyhood.
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> We white people have controlled political life in the disunited
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> and United States for some 400 years on this continent.
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> Conservative whites have been in power 28 of the last 40 years. Even
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> during the eight Clinton years, conservatives in Congress blocked
> most of his
> agenda and pulled him to the right. Yet never in that period did I
> read any
> headlines suggesting that anyone was calling for the assassinations
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> presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, or either of the Bushes. Criticize
> them, yes.
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> Call for their impeachment, perhaps. But there were no bounties on
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> heads. And even when someone did try to kill Ronald Reagan, the
> perpetrator
> was non-political mental case who wanted merely to impress Jody
> Foster.
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> But elect a liberal who happens to be Black and we're back in the
> sixties
> again. At this point in our history, we should be proud that we've
> proven
> what conservatives are always saying -- that in America anything is
> possible, EVEN electing a black man as president.
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> But instead we now hear that school children from Maine to California
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> talking about wanting to "assassinate Obama."
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> Fighting the urge to throw up, I can only ask, "How long?"
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> How long before we white people realize we can't make our nation,
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> less the whole world, look like us?
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> How long until we white people can - once and for all - get over this
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> hell-conceived preoccupation with skin color?
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> How long until we white people get over the demonic conviction that
> white
> skin makes us superior?
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> How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about
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> being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites?
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> How long before we get over our expectations that we should be at the
> head
> of the line merely because of our white skin?
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> How long until we white people end our silence and call out our peers
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> when they share the latest racist jokes in the privacy of our
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> I believe in free speech, but how long until we white people start
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> racist loudmouths as socially uncomfortable as we do flag burners?
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> How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks
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> personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves
> enough to
> edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President
> of
> the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?
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> How long before we start "living out the true meaning" of our creeds,
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> civil and religious, that all men and women are created equal and
> that
> "red and yellow, black and white" all are precious in God's sight?
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> Until this past November 4, I didn't believe this country would ever
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> elect an African American to the presidency. I still don't believe
> I'll live
> long enough to see us white people get over our racism problem.
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> But here's my three-point plan:
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> First, everyday that Barack Obama lives in the White House that
> Black
> Slaves Built, I'm going to pray that God (and the Secret Service)
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> protect him and his family from us white people.
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> Second, I'm going to report to the FBI any white person I overhear
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> saying, in seriousness or in jest, anything of a threatening nature
> about
> President Obama.
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> Third, I'm going to pray to live long enough to see America surprise
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> world once again, when white people can "in spirit and in truth"
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> "We HAVE overcome."
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> It takes a Village to protect our President!!!
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