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ETHNICALLY SPEAKING

by Larry Meeks

Dear Larry: I am a young adult librarian, and every year, I take part in a program designed to teach teens leadership skills. One of the classes we stress is how to prevent discrimination.

The class is always a very ethnically diverse group, consisting of students from white to black and all shades in between. One special exercise requires the students to line up according to different arbitrary labels.

For example, we will tell them to line up according to their birth months. O ...

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Posted by: Matt
Comment: #1
Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:16 AM

The letter from the doctor is disgusting, especially after 8 long years of listening to left-wingers demand that Bush be impeached and brought to trial for war crimes. But yeah, opposition to Obama HAS to be rooted in racism. It couldn't be his association with known communists and unrepentant terrorists, his racist preacher, or shady businessmen in Chicago. It couldn't be his attempted nationalization of the entire healthcare industry, his attempted takeover of the energy sector via Crap-N-Trade, or his nationalization of the banking, housing, and automotive industries with the bailouts and stimulus packages. It couldn't be his utter and complete ineptitude at accomplishing any part of his own agenda, even with both houses of Congress firmly under control of his own party. It couldn't be his gallavanting around the world, apologizing to our enemies for the US's very existence and bowing to the Saudi king, or jetting off to Copenhagen to beg for the Olympics when the economy is a mess and we've got two shooting wars on. It couldn't be the way he's snubbed our ally England, pushed Honduras to reinstall a Marxist usurper, or thrown the Polish and the Czechs to the Russian bear with the cancellation of the missile shield. It couldn't be his utter failure to deal effectively with the Iranian or North Korean nuclear threats via diplomacy, sanctions, or anything else. It couldn't be his Attorney General promising to reinstate the assault weapons ban, or his appointment of 40 unelected, unaccountable "czars" to oversee domestic policy. It couldn't be the 1.5 TRILLION that he's looted from the American taxpayer in only eight months. It couldn't be that he's utterly failed to prevent the economy from cratering to the worst levels since the 1970s. No....it's got to be because he's black. Frankly, I can't believe someone this naive, narrow-minded, and unbalanced is allowed to practice medicine.

Posted by: SarahM
Comment: #2
Sun Nov 1, 2009 1:24 AM

Re: Matt Thank you, Matt. You sum it up nicely. I hope this country is able to recover after this is all over. Eight years of Bush and now Obama for goodness knows how long (I truly hope not eight years). Oy vey!

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