This afternoon, a female volunteer for the McCain campaign confessed to making up a story about being mugged by an African-American man near an ATM. In the fabrication, this phantom-man, angered by her support for McCain, attacked and etched the letter "B" in her cheek. The letter, of course, was scratched backwards...
How high up does this hoax go? Was McCain's inner circle it's author? If so, McCain deserves to both lose this presidential race and be held up on the national stage as a profoundly awful man. To use existing racial tensions and fears for political gain is ignoble, short-sighted, and tantamount to advancing some people at the expense of others. To fabricate a story like this is increadibly unjust and criminal. Black males have been characterized-to-death already. They don't need a fresh, topical, and politically-relevant description of who they are. The McCain camp needs to know that African-Americans are Americans too. They do not deserve to be the go-to scapegoats. No one does.
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Then, this is only the latest...for the past many months I've been unsure about what to be more outraged by--the blatant bigotry toward Muslims and Arabs expressed by those saying that Obama is one or both and implying that that makes him a terrorist(and, in the same vein, acting as if his middle name is an important political issue--wonder why they didn't feel that way about William Jefferson Clinton?), or the anti-African American racism this garbage is thinly veiling...all of it with the tacit approval of McCain and the increasingly blatant approval of Sarah Palin (oh for the days when her apparent stupidity was the main strike against her)....
Hmmm...I seem to have gone on a rant. Just wandered onto your blog. Keep up the good work....
I completely agree with you. McCain has completely invalidated his campaign and rendered himself unelectable. They are knowingly inciting people to the point where, God forbid, someone may take a shot at Obama. If you're someone inclined to believe the McCain/Palin insinuations (that Obama is fundamentally anti-American) wouldn't the logical step be an attempt at his life?
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