Reply #29: Okay, here's my letter to my reps.....

[DagmarK]

Sen Gordon Smith (R-OR)
Sen Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Rep. Blumenauer (D-OR)

I cannot believe what I just read on the official White House website. Our “president” seems to be under the impression that in the beginning of our nation’s history that Africans left Africa of their own volition in search of FREEDOM in America. Is this ignorance in the 1000th degree? Or is it a wild attempt to revise history? Or what? This man…..and I will not call him “president” ever again – should be removed from office based on absolute incompetence. Is it that he is so removed from the reality of “real life” due to his own priviliged upbringing that he doesn’t have a CLUE about anything at all? Or is it a conscious decision to further soil the sins of our country as to the sins we committed as to slavery? He has degrees from Yale and Harvard? Seriously? Wooo, glad I didn’t go to those crappy schools! God, he is such an embarrassment …….. I expect a retraction of these statements. But I wonder, is this G. Tenet’s fault? Or will we just have to blame Abraham Lincoln for making such an incredibly major snafu by calling for war against the South in the name of ending slavery? It never dawned on me that we could have avoided the Civil War if it weren’t for some very bad information claiming that slavery was a problem. Who would have thought that the ‘migrant’ slaves were so darned happy in their new-found freedom and quest for the good life in the USA. Amazing! And soooooo scary at the same time. He’s the leader of the free world. Oh my f’ing GOD…….we are all doomed!
Reference to speech in Senegal:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/print/20030708-3.html

“I had the opportunity to go out to Goree Island and talk about what slavery meant to America. It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to America, because of their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom,…. helped change America.”

Note to GW: Helped change America? Guess what GW? We aren’t PROUD of our participation in slavery. They didn’t come here on their own. I recall shackles and brutal ocean voyages. We used to be concerned with the ills in our society that directly result from slavery. Is this man in the White House really suggesting otherwise? Good God, have mercy on our once great nation.