View the movies “Gentleman’s Agreement” or “To Kill a Mocking Bird” and you understand the attitude of many White Christian Americans in the 1960s and earlier times. I myself, as a Jew born in 1939, experienced discrimination as early as the age of 10 and heard negative remarks as late as the 1980s.
Jesse Jackson came from that time of hatred and fear. He and Louis Farrakhan are both from that same era. Both of them are foolish old men that really do not understand how much the world has changed. I know that I have trouble accepting this new world. I know that poor Latinos and Blacks are still hating and killing each other but the people involved are diminishing in numbers quite rapidly.
Barack Obama is part of this new society that really does live up to the dreams of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Obama’s lectures to Blacks about taking responsibility is correct. Obama is not running for president as the Black candidate. He is running as the change candidate. He keeps saying he is running as president for all Americans. I believe him. That does not mean I am voting for him. I will judge him based upon his qualifications and his views on the affairs effecting America. Everyone reading this should do the same.
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