The Real Problem

For a long time now there has been something weighing on my mind, and I think that it's time for me to finally just get it out. I keep hearing a million and one reasons why people say that they won't vote for Barack Obama. He's to inexperienced, hes to vague, he was friends with these people, he a liar, etc. Now I'm sick of all these pathetic attempts to cover up the true reason behind people not wanting to vote for him. The real reason people just can't or won't connect to Obama or won't vote for him is because he's black. Now people will start that "Oh is he on that whole racial thing" but there is lots of evidence out there. First of all look at the groups who won't support him. The main group he's having problems with are whites, and to be more specific rural whites. Whites from small towns who don't have people of color around. See Sarah Palin likes to say We grow good people in small towns. I can attest to that because I spent my younger years in a small town, but at the same time as I got older I became very aware of the racial divide in that town. Especially after I had moved away to a larger city, with a more diverse population. You see many small town are in fact racist, not really by choice, but by circumstance. If you've lived in one place all your life, and your surrounded by only people who look like you, and you spend a majority of your time believing every negative view and stereotype of people that are not like you, what else could truly be expected. Which comes back to my point about Barack Obama. There are a lot of small town whites, who can't see past the color of Obama's skin color. No I won't put it all off on small town whites, or even whites alone. I'm sure their are a lot of people who won't vote for Obama because he's black. I even know black people who won't vote for Obama because hes black. There is a Korean man who works in a convenience store close to my house, and he said a minority should never be allowed to be president, Asians included. Now in all respect, I don't think that everyone should just love Obama. That's completely ridiculous to assume that everyone would support Obama. The main thing I have a problem with is that if you took Obama, turned him white, gave him the same policies, same plans, and put him up against McCain he would be leading him by 20 points at least. That's what bothers me. It bothers me how since hes black that the race is so close, that Obama can't get a double digit lead because of the color of his skin. It bothers me how Obama can lead every where else in the world in a world wide poll, except in his own country. See America likes to claim that they've made such great strides in race relations, and how blacks have all the opportunity to succeed now, and how whites aren't as racist as they once were, and things are a lot better between black and white. That is complete and utter BULLSHIT! America is still the most racist place on the planet. Americans need to be honest with themselves. They are doing themselves a great disservice by trying to conceal racism. If your racist don't hide the shit, and act like your going to go to the polls and vote for Obama, when you would never give a black man or anyone but a white person a chance. Just be honest, that way people won't be surprised when Obama goes into the week before the election, and has a 7 point lead, but still looses the election. People just don't realize the tension that will build up in this country.

In other news the McCain campaign is trying to make racial swipes at Obama. They have a very interesting three prong approach to it also. First is to try to tie him to William Ayres who was a member of a terrorist group called The Weather Underground back in the 60's, and is now a reformed man, who is highly respected in the Chicago education system. The second prong is to use Obama's middle name Hussein as a way of connecting him to Saddam Hussein. Third is to try to somehow turn Obama into some kind of man of mystery who is obviously lying and trying to keep secrets from the American people. This is their latest tactic to try to turn this into a racial issue. Some people might try to say, well how is this racial. Well allow me to explain it to you. By painting Obama as a terrorist, by connecting him to Bill Ayres, and invoking Obama's name trying to imply that he's some kind of Muslim terrorist, and finally by trying to raise the trust issue, because one of the many stereotypes about blacks in general is that blacks aren't trust worthy, blacks are liars, blacks are criminals. The problem is that they are trying to imply that Obama is a dangerous black man, who is sleeper cell terrorist, who will destroy the US. Pretty sick if you ask me. However, I wouldn't expect any thing less from a loser like McCain and his campaign. Also I would put anything past the people who live in this country. If strange fruit hanging from the trees in the south didn't bother many people, why would something like what the McCain campaign is aserting.