What Do You Mean, We, White Man?
There has been a lot of discussion about whether English should be official language of the US. What we do have, apparently is an official skin color. At least according to our thoughtful President last Friday:
There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily -- are a different color than white can self-govern.
This passage is disturbing in so many ways that I don't know where to begin. Obviously, in his heart of hearts, Spurious George thinks that he is the president of a country of a white people. When George says "we", he means Caucasians. Equally sad is the fact that he thinks that he is making some sort of bold statement by asserting that you don't have to be white to practice democracy. I believe that this was the cutting edge of political thought about 140 years ago, or maybe quite a bit longer. Finally, he seems to be confusing race with religion.
Our P(r)esident - racist or just confused? You make the call.
Woody
P. S. Credit to George Will for pointing this out. No kidding.
P. P. S. Just a case of run-of-the-mill hypocrisy, but the US has not been real eager to actually hold elections in Iraq.
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