Today is Thursday, September 27, 2012 - it is a perfect fall day. My stats: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes of the exercise ball and 46 minutes of walking = 2.5 miles for a September total of 54.2 miles. My weight was 162.8 pounds.
QUOTE from Seneca: "Whom they have injured they also hate."
My THOUGHTS today have to do with hate. Leonard Pitts had a column in Sunday's paper entitled - Again, see the same old hate. A Florida woman named Venassa wrote to him - she had seen a bumper strip that said -"2012 Don't Re-Nig." She wrote - "I'm stunned by the fact that some people believe it's appropriate to flaunt that sentiment-and that it's not a source of shame."
Pitts wrote that he was not nearly as shocked as she because the sentiment expressed has been part of the Obama narrative since he took office. White people see America changing and they want "their" country back. Pitts gave other examples of white people's hate;
-one-fourth of the Americans question his birth place.
-Tea Party members denounce health care reform as "reparations."
-Rep. Geoff Davis calls Obama "boy."
-Rep. Joe Wilson yells out "you lie" in a presidential speech.
-Rush Limbaugh says Obama's election means it's open season on white kids.
-Obama is called a terrorist, a "food stamp president" and a "Chicago thug" - so why should "Don't Re-Nig" come as a surprise.The "white skinned haters" can't do lynchings anymore so these are other ways for them to express their hate.
Pitts concluded with these words: So this is the paradigm of our age - self delusion on the one hand, a guy trying to govern on the other, while hemmed in by race, defined in crude, stereotypical imagery, yet unable to fight it, talk about it, or evern admit he sees it, for fear of compromising his effectiveness, being dismissed as, God forbid, "an angry black man."h
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