I love my former partner.
Well, I love a couple of my former partners, but the one I’m talking about tonight I’m not going to name. If by chance this partner happens to read this post, they will know who they are. (For the record, it’s NOT McHottie.)
I checked my email tonight and was pleasantly surprised to have a message from this partner. (Yes, I’m purposely playing the pronoun game.)
In that email was a racially motivated, extremely negative forwarded message about our next President. This Partner knows that I’m a Conservative girl. I’m sure that they figured I would find it funny.
I didn’t. It made me sad.
I’m a Republican. Am I happy that Obama is our next President? God no. That has absolutely zero to do with his race and everything to do with his ideas.
Regardless of that fact he is our next President.
Really, as educated people haven’t we moved beyond taking jabs at each other because of our respective races?
This Partner has always treated everyone they’ve encountered on the job (and off the job in my presence) with total respect. I had no idea (despite having known this person for more than three years) that this person was racist.
I guess I’m a little more Pollyanna than I thought.
Some people think race jokes are funny. They’re not. And I also think those people don’t think themselves as racist when they tell those kinds of jokes.
Very sad indeed
I hear ya, Epi.
What really frosts my @$$ is that there is just SO much to dislike about Obama WITHOUT dragging race into it (not that we should dislike the man because of his race, mind you).
Rampant socialism, forced class envy, disdain for the Bill of Rights… There’s plenty for conservatives to dislike without adding fuel to the “RETHUGLICANS R RACIST ZOMG!!!!111″ fire…
Up front… I voted for Sarah!
But if I had known Zero was gonna renege on every single one of his major campaign promises before taking office, I’d have voted for him over Sarah’s running mate.
Who cares that he’s half-white?
This racial crap is SO yesterday.
I’m hopeful Obama’s Presidency will illustrate how empty those types of jokes and that kind of thinking is.
And I think it just may.
@Jay G. You are right on with this my friend. Although I’d be willing to stretch it from rampant socialism to borderline communism. What other person have you known in the annals of history to come out and speak of a country as such an awful place and promise nothing but change for the better? Such a vivid image through his speaking power that most everyone elects him.
It reminds me a lot of Hitler. (I wonder if I can say that?)
But I do agree that race shouldn’t be an issue.