LETTER: Says Obama and Biden make an excellent choice

Melissa, thank you for writing this letter. I guess some of us are just tired of all the negativity we hear and read about Obama. I’m protecting my own hopeful and good feelings I get from learning about Senator Obama. Some people like to be depressed or scared, they like that black cloud hung over their heads and some folks really do like to scare themselves with talk of the end of the world. I love Halloween, my favorite time of the year and I love to read a good ghost story or see a satanic story like Revelations or the Exorcist but when those stories are mixed with politics and feral attacks are made on good people it’s very unhealthy. We live in a real world and I keep my fantasy separated from reality. Some folks just can’t do that and I feel bad for them.
Now we hear stories about the money Obama has spent on his campaign, some say he must have got it illegally.
I can say this; the last few Presidential campaigns I’ve voted in I’ve sent only one donation to the candidate of my choice. I’ve sent five donations to Obama/Biden.
Say if one million of us sent in one hundred dollars each, that’s a lot of money.
Folks are just picking boogers where Senator Obama is concerned. He’s different, his name, his color, his whole life story but I try to judge him as an American who only wants the best for his country and like the rest of us he has seen the devastation done to us by politicians we trusted. Being different does not make someone evil.
When I hear things like his owning one car, the holes in his shoes and both he and his wife have to work to keep up, well that sounds like my family and many folks I know.
My grand daughter and her husband own a few homes in California and they get to travel around the world but they both work hard and some things they have to sacrifice, like fancy cars, expensive clothes and flashy jewelry. They’re holding off on children until they are better prepared and the world is a little safer. Tabitha went to school here in Madison County and she left Georgia with values she got from us. Georgia does great work and some of the greatest folks in the world come from right here and I believe we can all pull together, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians and Democrats.
Obama has what we need to get out of this mess. Listen to him. He is consistent about his plans to bring this country around. He is saying now what he was saying months ago.
He has a plan and it would behoove everyone to do his or her homework. He has some great ideas.
I don’t dislike McCain or Sarah Palin I just can’t see them running a country that is as screwed up as ours.
McCain has been a driving force for the last eight years and although he is one of our countries greatest heroes he has been instrumental for our failures.
Sarah Palin is a beautiful woman and would be a fun friend but she has too many skeletons in her closet that is not make-believe, but a fact. In Alaska she really is being investigated for several things that are too much like what our country is suffering from now, politicians who abuse their powers for personal gain.
How low do we want to go?

Today, the R word, racism, the prejudice that members of one race are superior to members of other races is just as hated by all races as the N word is to blacks. I’m sure, most folk my age, who were raised in the black and white days of the forties and fifties were brought up to think themselves superior to other races. Those people taught the same thing to their children and on down the line until someone in that family breaks the curse.
I remember in Waycross, Valdosta and other southern states seeing signs that read (no coloreds) and (no Indians) at many of the places we frequented. Then there were the water fountains, one for whites and one for coloreds or Indians.
My dad was raised in a family who at one point in the past were slave owners, so was my mom. Both of my parents had Indian blood but they were not allowed to discuss it. My granny on my dad’s side bleached her skin so she would look whiter. Indians, who’d been badly abused by the white race, who had tried to erase their Indian beliefs and heritage, for self-preservation they themselves tried to be white.
I remember kinfolks telling me blacks and Indians didn’t have a soul. These were church going folks and they were only saying what they had been taught. I was a hardheaded kid and I would tell them they were wrong which kept me in trouble and made me an outcast by most of my family members. I was also a very lonely child because of my beliefs.
In the later fifties we moved to Florida. I was with a more diverse community and fit right in. That was in the fifties and now in 2008 we still have racists. Not just white folks but blacks and Indians as well, plus other races from other countries. Racism is just as ugly with blacks as it is with whites and it’s in every state.
When racism came up in my family I remember both parents telling me they knew racism was wrong and it’s no telling what my dad went through living in a racist family, I do know he despised the KKK.
Thinking that what happened way back when gives us a right to be prejudice today is as wrong as a white person thinking they are better than other races.
Until we all accept that, we are the same, no better than anyone else regardless of race or religion we are going to have rivalry and wars.
Barack Obama is white and black and was raised by whites and he dearly loved his mother and grandparents.
Talking about racism is one way we can grow. I talk about it all the time with my kids and they talk about it with their children.
Teaching racism to children will only make their life hard.
Ever wonder why the kids today dress like their black peers and even copy their dialect, I think those kids are called “whiggers.” Back in the sixties young people left home in protest to their parents and we lived with young black people and people of all races.
Charles Manson was a racist; he was not a “hippie or flower child.” He was a very sick person and so were his followers. He taught his followers racism.
So many folks are afraid of Senator Obama because he is black, well he is not black he is half black and half white and I’m sure his life was tormented by racist whites and racist blacks.
I believe Barack Obama has what it takes to turn our country around, unify us and get the United States on the right track.
The more we talk about racism the better off we will be.