EVERYTHING THAT BUILT AMERICA

I was reading the article by Tim Wise, http://ephphatha-poetry.blogspot.com/2010/04/imagine-if-tea-party-was-black-tim-wise.html, an eloquent white man that "gets it" and the comments were almost as good as the article. It seems when whites try to defend themselves and their country against anyone that would criticize their patriotic fervor and disguised history, all the rest of us get blamed for playing the race card if we dont agree with them. I certainly don't agree with their stupid tea party because as I remember it, didn't the first ones disguise themselves as Indians? Seems like cowardice played a big roll in that patriotic theme and a way to blame the Indians for one more thing.

Bush let us know if you don't agree with the war in Iraq, you were unpatriotic. I didn't agree with being a bully, which was what I saw the taking over of a country that hadn't spit on our soil to be, but upheld the soldiers that had to fight the stupid thing through no fault of theirs.

I was against Bush as President, not because he was an American President, I was against Bush for the same reason Ron White, the comedian was against it. You can't fix stupid. I'm not for this President because he's Black, I'm for intelligence and we haven't had any of that for years. We had Tricky Dick and Slick Willy, which for all the stuff they did, we are still paying for but that's OK, they are White Americans. Yet the conservatives get all bent out of shape because Obama bowed with an Asian Head of State out of respect?

When they start hollering about what it took to build this country, please try and throw in how the Chinese built railroads, how Indians were "cleared off it" and put in places they needed to be, how Africans worked for no pay until death, and Japanese were carted off and imprisoned in camps until the war was over but no American Germans were, and please remind them again, they, didn't build it, all the rest of us did. But I'm not bitter because life has a way of evening things out, or as some would say, God has a sense of humor. Everybody gets a turn in the barrel and the Mexicans are coming.