Two fish

Joe Biden, to a group of largely African-Americans in Virginia:  "...[Willard Romney] is going to let the big banks once again write their own rules.  Unchain Wall Street.  They're going to put y'all back in chains."

Rochelle Riley (an African-American) on Biden's statement:  "But what he did do was go too far in his efforts to talk about the damage Republican policies could do to America's middle class, poor, and minority residents--who are not all the same people."

Riley's column was kind of all over the place--at its end I wasn't really sure what she was striving for--but part of it was about conservatives making it impolitic to talk about racism even though it still exists...which, if this is her hoped for change, she should be absolutely applauding Biden's comments.  I mean a white man calling out republicans for their inherent racism?  It's brilliance--who else but a white American male could honestly call them out for it and be listened to?  And what's with this bullshit about how the middle class, the poor, and minority residents are not all the same people?  We most assuredly are--we're all Americans who are suffering under the damage done over the past thirty years by republican policies and people of Ms. Riley's ilk who are so willing to compromise with them on economic matters for the sake of bipartisanship.

It often amazes me how African-Americans can take as much bullshit from republicans without going postal on a daily basis--I do not have the inner strength to take the shit they do.  But then I read comments like this from Rochelle Riley:  "...conservatives and racists, who by no means are always the same people..." and I think it might just be either an utter lack of conviction or sheer ignorance on the part of African-Americans' leaders.

Your mistake, Ms. Riley, is believing their bullshit about how you can be a republican and not be a racist.  You can't.  I've been on this planet fifty-three years and have never met a republican/conservative who was not a racist.  Get deep down into their hearts, when they think no one is watching, and their true selves will come out.  Given the chance to save a black person's life and that of an ant, they will save the ant every time because they just do not think of "you people" (their words) as living, breathing human beings.

Peace,
emaycee