Whoopity Dooopity Dooo Republicans Elect (African American) Michael Steele as G.O.P. Chair

On the surface I figure this can be taken two ways depending on whether or not your personality is one that would lean more toward your cup being half empty or your cup being half full. Direction#1 (Cup half Full) would be congrats the Republicans are finally coming around and getting with the program perhaps change REALLY is on the way - Good for them. Direction #2 (Cup half Empty) would be these dumb-butts think that we don't see that they are just trying to hop on the Goodship Lollipop with hidden weapons and without pitching in to row the boat.

Though I am currently on a "cup half full" kick after much spiritual seeking I am going to go with the "cup half empty" point of view. Before I did this I had to consider my spiritual points of view first to make sure that I wasn't just being negative due to conditioning from my past and here is what I have deduced: "The body politic does not yet have the container of love, compassion, health and sanity to "metabolize" ... political toxins that have accumulated over centuries. Those of us who can simultaneously hold "the awful truth" and the "awesome opportunity" are the leaders of this new spiritual evolution that will help heal the past and design the future." Basically, that means while you are holding your half full cup don't be in denial pretending the empty portion does not exist and is not a factor. Those of us who are willing to both hold the reality/truth of a situation while at the same time being positive and working to make the situation better are the ones who will really make a change.

So here is the situation - signaling a desire to put a new face on an embattled party Michael Steele, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, was elected the chairman of the Republican National Committee. What those of us who have fought for true freedom through the constant victimization at the hands of Republicans across America are thinking is that this "face" is just a mask. You can dress up a wolf in sheep's clothing but the fact is he is still a wolf. Other than this what has the Republican party really changed? Consider those in various power positions within the party for a moment. Steele beat out Katon Dawson, the very well liked and respected South Carolina Republican Chairman who had to be prompted by concerns raised by other Republicans to withdraw from the ALL WHITE country club he belonged to. THIS IS 2009 PEOPLE!!!!!! Why in the hell should anything ALL WHITE exist in this country at all? Your Answer: Because the first thing that existed at the founding of our country that was truly ALL WHITE is the asinine concept of ALL WHITE in the first place. This guy was elected to Chair a committee whose devotees almost all believe that African Americans are the reason for most of this country's problems. How do I know this? Feel free to come with me in July to my family reunion and you will quickly figure it out.

What we have to wonder about is whether or not the Republicans will change much other than their face:

While on their left hand Republicans across America feign patriotism and tell Democrats who are against the war that freedom isn't free -they are simultaneously using their right hand to prevent freedom of choice for women who would choose abortion while fighting about the value of human life. Will this new face have them changing their views on abortion or war?

In the most recent campaign it is easy enough to go onto YouTube and watch Sarah Palin videos to see that in psychological terms Palin's campaign activated that part of the psyche in people that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of “the other.” Will we see Republicans addressing truth and intelligence in the next election as opposed to stoking the embers of fear in order to win their race?

In the next major campaign who will the Republicans choose as their candidate? Someone like Palin who has a complete ignorance of world affairs repudiating the need to repair America's image abroad; who uses the term "family values" as a code for walling out anybody who makes a claim for social justice by dubbing them as outside the family and not needed; who has rigid stances on guns and abortion as a scornful repudiation that these issues can be negotiated with people who disagree; who uses patriotism as the standard Republican fall back to a failed war; who uses the word "reform" not as a term to define the cleaning out of corruption and excessive spending but instead as an excuse for throwing out anyone who doesn't fit her ideology ---- or will the Republicans finally remove themselves from the overall message of the reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from “us” pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort and globalism is a foreign threat?

The list goes on and on with things like these small things and things much larger such as voting fraud and war crimes. I ask whoever is reading this to please not be in denial about what these guys are all about just because they changed their face and please don't distrust them and believe them to be incapable of change either. It is our jobs to recognize and face the truth about things and to in turn educate ourselves and others about the solutions in order to make positive change. It is time to quite whining about the negative when we aren't working for the positive.

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Sarah Palin Takes on the Media (Lets Find the Hypocritical Statements)

Actually she has a few good points for those of you out there who would immediately assume she has nothing worthwhile to say. In the beginning of this video for instance she speaks about bloggers asking when they became the source for what people believed regarding the truth. She also makes a good point when speaking of how when Obama mentioned that family was off limits apparently his supporters didn't respect his point of view too much or they would have left hers alone. These are points I can definitely agree with her on.

On the other hand, when speaking of bloggers she talks about lies asking "what is it that drives someone to believe the worst and perpetuate the worst in terms of gossip/lies?" But wait... wasn't she one of the ones spreading those lies about her opponents during the campaign? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFeBvuzz7Bs This is the same woman who told everyone over and over again that she said "thanks but no thanks" to the bridge to nowhere which was a lie or for those of you defending her a twisted truth; she told us all about her plane that she sold on eBay when she only put it on eBay but didn't sell it; she lied about taking a voluntary paycut as mayor but her salary actually increased; She said she wasn't going to judge people who believe that gay people are born that way etc. etc. yet she is a member of a church with a "pray the gay away" program; She said that her state produced 20% of this country's domestic supply of energy and/or of oil and gas which is a lie; she said she increased funding for students with special needs but the truth is she reduced that funding by decreasing the Special Olympics budget; she says she championed earmark reform to stop Congress from wasting money but if that is true then there would be an extra 2 million dollars for her state after she denied the funding for a study on the mating habits of crabs which didn't happen; Let's not go into her twisting of the facts even after the findings relating to her attempted witch hunt firing of her ex brother in law. In addition to her own lies her campaign people told a few of their own like the one about her going to Iraq and she didn't; they talked about the teleprompter breaking at the Republican Convention when neutral witnesses said it didn't. The list goes on and on with her lies as they began to morph from just lies about herself into lies about Obama.

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The Unfortunate Plight of White

First, check out THIS ARTICLE about Mitt Romney in the Boston Globe. Apparently there were two separate references made by him regarding he and/or his father marching with Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement. The truth is that neither he nor his father marched with King, though his father did march in various marches to support the civil rights movement during his time as Governor of Michigan. Obviously as white people of that time they were at least somewhat supportive of the situation for black people at the time of the civil rights movement. As a white person myself I feel I can discuss what Mitt Romney is going through with regards to history and his own history etc. For those of you who don't know it, white people run around much of their lives suffering from a certain amount of guilt. Some of this guilt is their own and some of it has relationship to their ancestors. While many other ethnic groups have various methods of honoring their heritage and their ancestors white people generally don't have any method for this honoring of heritage and ancestors. The average white person likely knows only what some or all of their ethnic background is and does not have much if any familiarity of any cultural rituals that relate to their own background accept the cultural benefits of manifest destiny at the detriment of those of color. We have a history in America of white being the group of individuals that holds more power than those of color and therefore over the last couple of centuries it has been the practice of those who "pass for white" to do their best to whitewash themselves in order to appear more white. People changed their names to appear more white in the eyes of Americans, they hid their true cultural rituals and religions and traded them for hate-fear and violence in most cases. (unless they were fighting against these things they supported them sorry to get "black and white" with my point of view but it's the truth. You don't fight for what is right and educate yourself on what is going on around you then you are supporting what is wrong. It's my opinion so get over it.) So this is "The Plight of White". We as white people suffer from a history where our ancestors as a majority have supported the perpetration of hate-fear-violence on people of color. This means that if we had a culture back when our ancestors first arrived to this country it was likely either replaced with the version of Christianity that existed at that time (which centered much of the time around hate-fear-violence against those of color) or it was replaced with nothing at all. In the end the result you end up with is the America you have today. Today's America is filled with white people and people of color both who have no concept of culture and ritual and a true connection to anything deeper than themselves. We allow ourselves to be pacified by the luxuries provided us by the pseudo freedom we have to run around and purchase items of technology to keep us busy and not paying attention to the fact that we Americans as a majority lack culture completely and that the civil rights movement has not yet succeeded in it's goals for having all people be equal. Black people get paid 60cents to ever dollar white people make statistically to this day. Men make on average somewhere near $10,000 dollars more per year than women. We still see situations in places like Virginia where a woman was kidnapped, raped and tortured for days by a family of white people simply because she was black. We still see situations in places like Jena, Louisiana where black youth are harassed and picked at by white youths to the point that requires self defense and when they defend themselves they are exposed to further political lynching by their community while the white youths receive little or no punishment at all. This is what is still going on in our society day by day. Some of us support it and some don't and then there are a big percentage of the white people who don't that are afraid to admit that fact for fear of losing their privilege. This is why people fight reparations. If there was nothing to lose to give equality to people who deserve it then white people would never argue with it. People like Mitt Romney have a mixture of all of this. Because of his religion he has a little tiny piece of what it means to be judged and oppressed for something that is not necessarily bad and so he feels a bit like he can relate to the black community. Add to this that he has benefited and become more privileged because of the efforts of black people who have always been treated as less than he but because he can relate to the plight of these people who he benefits from he feels helpless to help them without hindering himself and this makes him feel guilty. What does he do because of his guilt? He does the same thing as other guilt ridden white people. He takes things from cultures of color and assimilates them into his own life in attempt to bring back that thing which he always feels deep inside is missing CULTURE. So his children listen to MTV and wear their pants baggy as often as possible and if they don't do that then at the very least they use slang terms commonly used by youths of the current time after they were stolen from youths of color. They benefit from the music past and present, the technological inventions, the fashion and more from those of color and they take it and they make it their own. Why? Because they have no culture. They are empty and without culture because their relatives long before them dumped culture in trade for survival-fear-hate-violence simply because they could pass for white or they were white. Now in attempt to gain the culture that we all feel empty without we do our best to pseudo relate to those people of color who we feel guilty for benefiting from. We as white Americans are all at generally the same place. How do we treat others with respect and equality without losing all our benefits? Well the answer is simple. Assimilate the cultures of people of color to make us seem as if we are all the same and then pretend we don't realize this is what is happening. Later, when someone says the civil rights movement isn't over and people aren't equal we tell those people they are wrong. We run around saying things like "I don't see color" knowing that if we don't see color then we are blind because it exists and it would be an insult to those of color to pretend it doesn't. We tell people we aren't racist despite the fact that none or few of our friends and associates are people of color. We think that because we believe that our country should be a free place where all are treated equal that it means we have done our part. We forget that our part will not be done until we educate ourselves on the TRUTH of what is going on racially in this country and then fight for freedom and equality for all people at the risk of losing our privilege. We have so much fear of losing the control we have over our own lives because we have lost control of the lives of others that we are afraid to admit that we know it would be better. We would benefit so much more from allowing others to be equal to us because at the very least those people would bring things to our culture that we could all share equally and it would come at a much higher rate than if we cherry picked from the cultures of others and stole only that which we liked at the moment that we thought would not erase our status as white people. Just think our music could have more of African and Latin cultures than just their stolen beats. People of color would be exposed with a higher level of education and perhaps we could have more people who think like Obama to run for president or we would finally have something else to talk about during February besides old inventions like the stoplight and the cotton gin and botanical breakthroughs in hybridization. We would benefit. So what are we afraid of? White people are all afraid of losing power and will therefore feel guilty for taking it away from others so that they can keep it. And so the cycle will continue we will keep our power out of the fear of losing control of our own individual lives while we steal the cultures of others and feel guilty for it. So forgive poor little Mitt Romney for suffering from "The Plight of White" and trying to steal a bit of culture by pretending that he and/or his father marched with black people instead of simply for black people (which back then was more than most white people did). FORGIVE HIM BUT WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T VOTE FOR HIM UNTIL HE CAN PROVE HE HAS GOTTEN OVER HIS GUILT BY FIGHTING FOR TRUE EQUALITY INSTEAD OF JUST PRETENDING TO.

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