Why is it about color???

And they said things have changed; funny as this presidential campaign continues it does seem like anything has changed at all. The other day someone sent me a picture that was taken in Tennessee. The picture was of a T-Shirt a man riding a motorcycle was wearing and it said “Nigger Please, it’s the White House!”. So tell me have they changed? Not from my seat. Now to be fair I will confess to having a T-Shirt that has on it “Don’t Worry People, It can stay White on the Outside”. What may surprise you is my Texas born, mainly Republican White wife bought it for me and I wear it around the house and only worn it twice to the locate Wal-Mart. Funny I got a lot of compliments on it…From white people.

Ok, enough about color. If things have changed then when will this campaign be about who can best service the American people and not about black or white; that’s a silly question. It will never be about who can best service the American people as long as one candidate is White and the other is Black.

What set me off you ask? I was reading this article (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081013/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_lewis) and I wasn’t surprised at how McCain and Palin, in this case can dish it but can’t take it. Palin called Obama a Lair, Traitor and a Terrorist for his association with a man dubbed a domestic Terrorist in 1960’ and 70’s (http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1215925,CST-NWS-ayers12.article). Oh I failed to mention that Obama was 8 years old at the time this was going on. But his association with an English Professor at Columbia University, who was on a Board for Education Reform with him and who pushed for better education for trouble kids was not in question. Funny how in the 1960’s, when you fought for racial equality, constructional rights, and better treatment of minorities you were marked as a Domestic Terrorist (i.e. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.).

Ok back on point. McCain and Palin if you can dish out the fear driven remarks about Obama then stand up and take it when Rep Congressman Lewis calls you on your running a George Wallace type campaign.