Great read in the LA Progressive website! "Message to My Fellow White People." [View all]

I think this guy just freakin' NAILS IT. Saying a lot of what we've been saying, here. My conclusion about the teabaggers, for example, has always been - "there's a black guy in the Oval Office and he isn't the janitor." THIS essay goes that one - several times better! And I LOVE the LA Progressive! Well worth your checking out.

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Okay, fellow Caucasians, now that we’re alone, we need to have a good old-fashioned heart-to-heart. Four years ago America elected its first non-white president and — to be perfectly blunt with you — a lot of you folks have reacted to this new American reality a bit….Oh, how can I put this as delicately as possible….Well, let me put it to you this way: you’re not taking it well, that’s for damned sure! In fact since Inauguration day 2009, you’ve been in full-tilt, FREAK OUT mode. I mean, hell, judging by the overreaction of some people, you would think that the president and first lady were Charles Manson and Squeaky Fromme! A lot of white people are acting like this is the end of the world – and they’re absolutely correct. We’re coming to the end of the old world. Like it or not (and I kinda like it) we’re about to enter a new world. Be brave. Grow up.

Now, let’s all just take a deep breath….

My fellow crackers, someday in the not-too-distant future, we won’t be in the majority anymore. In fact, that day will come within the lifespan of most of you who are now reading this. I know this must be a bitter pill for some of you to swallow – but that’s the way it is and there’s nothing we can do to alter the unalterable . There has been such an insane, mass hissy-fit over the fact that, for the first time in history, a black family is living in the family quarters (as opposed to the servants quarters) of the White House. Honestly, we really need to get a grip here, folks.

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