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Bigotry By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sour
The bigotry continues in Iowa.
[link] DES MOINES, Iowa -- Just hours before Thursday night’s caucuses, White House hopeful Barack Obama did interviews on five networks and plenty of local television stations this morning, then hoarsely greeted diners at a downtown Des Moines food court.
And he faced a surprise question from one woman who asked him if he was a black man.
“I’m ethnically a member of the white race. I’m just really tan,” Obama replied, adding, “Don’t read e-mails.”
E-mails have circulated in recent weeks saying Obama is a Muslim or a black man or took his oath of office on a Quran instead of a Bible, none of which is true.
“I hated having to ask him that,” the woman, Zanetta Moore-El, said. “But I heard he was like a black guy. I don’t want a president who’s a black guy. I’m a firm believer in white superiority. I just really wanted to make sure because I really wanted to vote for him and he has some good topics and everything.”
Who wouldn't be outraged by a news story like the one I created above? All I did was change "atheist" to "black man".
Why isn't anyone outraged by the real news story?
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Is Kal (or Kara) an Obama supporter too?
Zanetta Moore-El, is that Superman's aunt or something?
I guess the House of El still takes Rao seriously even after he didn't help with that whole destruction of Krypton thing.
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"Ponies are atheists, you know, technically."
- Me
Turnabout...
...is fair play. I can guarantee you all I won't vote for a Baptist minister!
mike keers
civics
Never mind biology, what happened to civics education?
Ugh
Disgusting...and so is the woman's comment wouldn't vote for an atheist.
Religious Bigotry
Rick-
I thought the same thing. Is it too much to ask that Obama tell the lady that he doesn't stand for that type of bigotry against atheists?
I have written a few posts here and at other websites in support of Obama, but this gives me second thoughts. Or maybe I am being too harsh? From what I've seen of the campaign so far, Obama has had to deal with all types of idiotic attempted smears. One of the most common is about his religion.
Is he black enough?
Is he really a Christian?
Is he a secret Muslim because his middle name is Hussein?
Did he attend a madrasa as a child?
Did he sell drugs?
Is the only reason he won his senate race because he's black?
Does he care about black people?
Robert Greenwald even put together a funny montage called Fox Attacks about the Obama smears.
I guess I can forgive him because we all know that anyone who is not a Christian could never get elected president in this country. That is one of the reasons I became an atheist activist. Just look at what they are doing to Romney. Romney's church is called The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints. Clowns like Huckabee are attacking him for not being a Christian. It's bigotry among Christians against each other. Even Catholics and Evangelicals go at it. The pope came out earlier this year and said that non-Catholic churches are not real churches, implying that non-Catholics are going to hell. As far as I'm concerned, they are all a bunch of whack jobs.
No, it wouldn't be too much to ask.
I am content to say that as a practical matter "our" candidate (that is whoever is running against the nutjob the Republicans will eventually pick) must claim that he is religious. And if he does not defend atheists very strongly, OK. But Obama has said:
...as a practical matter. Little by little. I'd love to have a rationalist president but right now the best I can hope for is one who makes room for rationalism. That's never happened before.
But it makes me uneasy. Lincoln was reputed to have been an atheist, but his speeches are full of god-talk. I guess it's just a simple matter of choosing alternatives. The symbolic satisfaction of running an atheist candidate against, say, Huckabee, and ending up with someone nuttier than George Bush in the White House? Hmm...
I think Obama's a pretty good guy, and a practical guy; I can live with that. We're making progress, I think.
On "conservative" blogs I notice his name is already "Barack Hussein". I'm not even sure I can trust our electoral process anymore. It's been in the hands of the Bushies too long.
Nah -
Nah. (Well, yes, but . . .) They just hate the competition for shearing the sheep.
Jim Downey
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Yes,
but hardly surprising, I'm sorry to say.
Jim Downey
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