How Racism Works
After following this most historic of Presidential Elections, where for the 1st time an African American is a nominee, like many of, you I have seen a clear and unmistakable double standard. While the Obama campaign is grilled for the smallest actions, the most scurrilous ads and lies by the McCain campaign are largely overlooked by the media.
This double standard lead me to put forth the following questions that I call "What Ifs"
What If …….. John McCain was raised by a single Mom and Barack Obama's Dad was a 4 star Admiral and Commander of the US Navy.
What If …….. John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review and Obama graduated with a C- grade point average.
What If …….. McCain graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard and Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class (894 out of 899 graduates)?
What If …….. McCain were still married to the first woman he said 'I do' to? and Obama was the candidate who cheated on his 1st wife by dating his current wife.
What If …….. Obama admitted that he had multiple affairs within weeks of being released as a POW after learning that his 1st wife was crippled due to a car accident and no longer had her movie star good looks?
What If …….. We learned that Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but stole pills from her charitable organization to satisfy her addiction?
What If …….. Cindy McCain graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School and Michelle was born with a silver spoon as the heir to a $100 million dollar beer company?
What If …….. McCain had a squeaky clean reputation in the Senate and Obama had been investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee for interfering in a Savings and Loan scandal called the "Keating 5'?
What If …….. Obama had 1173 pages of medical records and 4 bouts with skin cancer and McCain was issued a clean bill of health?
What If …….. McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker? And Obama had trouble simply reading the teleprompter?
What If ……. American voters judged the candidates on the content of their character instead of the color of their skin.
If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are? This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
