Reply #447: I think I was naive and overwhelmed by life....

[Tigress DEM]

I didn't pay attention to mainstream news. I could tell it was a lie.
But it wasn't until the Democratic process failed so obviously that I went to the internet in search of the truth.

I still had faith in American process. I thought because the press finally came out with information on vote fraud that it would be dealt with accordingly and in MN where I am, there were Democratic challengers out to prevent voter harrassment and such. So I thought all was in place to secure a fair election and in a fair fight after the debates I thought Bush was toast.

I never imagined the level of corruption in place or the low lows this administration was willing to stoop to in order to win. I had this gut feeling that when David Duke (the KKK front runner for Prez one year) lost and he just smiled, that there would be someone in his place someday that would do through deception what he had failed to do outright, put a KKK man in the White House.

Even though I should have known better I was not afraid enough to imagine that Bush was the man the KKK had been waiting for and that the same tactics that work on an episode of the Dukes of Hazzard would succeed nationally.

I've believed that repubs balance the budget on the backs of the poor since the Reagan years. Before that I didn't know much. Met some politically active Nuns. (imagine)

In MN our "surplus" that generated tax refunds for the rich were stolen out of the public school funds and various programs to the poor and then we approved a tax referrendum to fund the school shortages.

I was poor for most of my life and I'm white, so when I think of the poor I don't automatically think black vs white. In fact a lot of blacks and latinos I knew were better off than us.

My dad was a disabled vet, but he didn't want my mom working because there was the possibility her ex tracked her down once and tried to kill her by blowing up the restuarant where she worked early in the morning when she was the only one who would be there.

Looking back I can see that I should have been more vigilant, but I thought our country really was the land of the free and home of the brave and all I had to do was vote and then get active with the right man in office.

Even though he doesn't throw out the race card my sense is it's more because he doesn't see blacks as "less than". He certainly felt they deserved better treatment in the Vietnam war and my guess is he hasn't changed in his respect for those blacks who served and took greater casualites than white units.

But it's weird. If a person is white and speaks up for Black "issues" you almost want to remove the "black" part in it, because it SHOULDN'T be a "black" issue to be poor and live in the ghetto.

It seems that it should be an issue that anyone has to live in the ghetto. Did you know Canada doesn't really have ghettos? Neither do they fear blacks as a lot of people in the US do. I'm understanding the connections you brought up, but there has been a part of me that doesn't know how to talk about this stuff without offending black people or having repubs turn it around and say I'm using the race issue to prove a point. If the point stands alone, is it still a race issue?