Reply #44: The whole mess is screwed

[Asgaya Dihi]

The AIDS thing I think is silly but in a lot of respects Wright is right in what he says. White preachers say things all the time and some of them are close to Presidents and others in power, we don't think a thing about it. But a black preacher says something that shocks and that's a big deal somehow. Similar with how we manage to ignore the racial stats in our prisons and pretend nothing is wrong, if that was us we'd scream loud enough but it's not so we excuse or ignore it somehow. Yeah, racism is alive and well in the US and it lives even among many who would deny it. Silence in the face of that stuff is as good as support of it.

I don't like what a lot of people are doing over it either though, including Obama. Yeah, I understand the political need maybe but I don't have to like it and I like what some of the blogs and other so called "libs" are doing with it even less. The timing sucks for Obama and it's something most of us don't want to hear but too many are going after the man as if what he said was wrong, and a few points aside much of it was just uncomfortable truths. I don't excuse the timing or his comments about Obama but he has been pushed pretty far, most of us might have snapped under that pressure as well.

The main thing I've learned in this campaign season is that there's less difference between the average dem and repub than I thought there was and both sides are capable of the same sell outs and compromises if our particular cause is in jeopardy. Much of the judgment we passed against others over recent years was misplaced. Too many of us will do it too. The nation hasn't learned a thing over recent years and we've no hope for any real change until we do. Here's to another 4 or 8 years of the same old crap no matter who wins.