I received an email A short time back. I receive a lot of emails.
Every now and then some of my friends forget who it is that they have on their "forwards" list and I get some of their sinfully ignorant scribblings. Like this one. It starts off with Obama, but that's only the wick...the bomb comes later.
You said:
The second term of
Barack Obama will be the final nail in the coffin for the legacy of the white Christian males who discovered,
explored, pioneered, settled and developed the greatest Republic in the history
of mankind.
Discovered? Discovered what?
They discovered that you could not get to India by sailing west from Europe is
what they discovered, or so they thought.
If your white Christian males had talked to the white Christian male
fishermen from Scandinavia they would have known what existed west of them from
those who had been visiting North American shores for at least six centuries
before. So you call that discovering
something, eh.
Explored? Maybe I can give you that one, but I do
know that they were accompanied by the natives who didn’t have to discover
anything because they knew where they were going.
Pioneered? Ha.
Just because they had never been there, didn’t mean that they had
anything to pioneer. Just because they
wanted to live in wooden houses rather than something less doesn’t mean that
they were discovering, exploring or pioneering anything.
Settled and Developed? I suppose that if you mean causing natives to
walk west for a thousand miles because you want their land settling and developing I guess you can do that. Most people would call that stealing and
persecuting.
If you call genocide and rapacious killing settling and developing I suggest that you buy another dictionary. I also suggest that you ask yourself
who was here first. It strikes me that history
shows us that it was the natives, be they whom they may, the Scandinavians and multiple
Indigenous Nations…Wasn’t it an Italian guy from Genoa who sold the Queen of
Spain into financing his trip west? Sounds to me like he and the Anglo Saxon
Christians who followed were hell bent on wiping out the pagan “savages” who
were here first at all costs. You’re
real proud of that, I suppose. Neither
the Spanish nor the Anglo Saxon white Christians have a very glorious history
of treating the natives of this great land mass in a Christian way. A short read of the Bible would show you
that. If you don’t like being turned
into the minority, tough. Just be glad
that the non-Anglo Saxon Christians of the 21st century don’t treat
you like your forebears treated theirs.
If they did, you’d be dead in short order…or, if you’re lucky, they’d
sell you to someone for whom you could pick cotton.
…greatest Republic in the history of
mankind… Yep,
greater than Egypt ever was? Greater
than Babylon ever was? Greater than China ever was? Greater than Rome ever was? Greater than Greece ever was? Greater than the Inca Nation ever was?
They’re all dead
now, and so will this nation die just like they did…maybe somewhere in the
early 2100’s. Maybe by then someone will figure out how important it is for a
great nation to have a single payer health care system. It will take the successful dictator to
install it.
Ah, the New World Order…George HW Bush used to dream about that a
lot. His son was quite a dreamer
too. Dreamed all the way through school,
forgot to learn how to speak English but learned how to dodge the draft.
As to shysters, I would encourage you to look around and see that there
are well nigh 1,000 shysters in D.C. alone, and from every corner of the nation. You don’t have to go to Chicago to find
them. Just take a look next door.
People
like me are completely politically irrelevant…That’s right. You are
irrelevant, politically, and so am I.
It’s not because the Blacks, Latinos, Homosexuals, Abortionists, Asians,
Feminists, Union Members, Environmental Extremists, the Media, Hollywood nor
the “Forever Needy” have taken over. It
is because you and I are not politically involved and we don’t do anything but
write our opinions for others to read. These
groups, or some like them, have existed in all the great civilizations, many of
which I have named above. If you don’t
believe me, read a little more of the Bible and maybe a history book or two.
…or concern myself with the aforementioned coalition
which has surrendered our culture, our heritage and our traditions without a
shot being fired.
“Coalition?” “Surrendered our culture?” What coalition? What culture?
Are you disappointed that you are not part of a coalition? And whose culture? Norman Rockwell’s front porch culture? The culture that slaughtered the natives who
were here first? The culture that went
to Africa to “rendition” the natives there so that they could be enslaved
here? The culture that wants to
de-unionize labor so that workers can be abused and under paid? The culture that wants to shrink the
government so that OSHA, EEOC, NLRB, IRS, SS, FDIC, FNMA, et al would disappear
so that the privileged could run rough-shod over the “workers” as the
“settlers” and “developers” ran rough-shod over the natives? Now, that’s culture!
I accept that I am politically irrelevant, but not for the same reasons
that you enumerate. It just so happens
that I see a lot of Christianity in our country, but not in your article. You claim that Christian white people made
this the greatest country that ever existed.
They might be white, but they are far from Christian. They hate Blacks, they hate Latinos, they
hate Homosexuals, they hate Feminists, they hate those of the political party
that they oppose, they hate the unemployed, they hate unions, they hate
government regulation, they hate the needy and they hate the government that
takes care of those who need to be cared for, they hate their voting districts
so they gerrymander them to suit themselves.
Christ was not a hater. Christ
did not give us a mission to hate, to enslave, to belittle, to abuse, to lie,
to judge falsely.
At
least in OUR time, we knew and understood Valor! Really?
What was your time? I remember
when the Nips, the Gerry’s and the Wops were on the front pages of our
newspapers. I remember when my father
hired a black man and was told by the owner of the business to get rid of him,
or else. Valor.
I remember when Japanese Americans were taken off their land and
imprisoned. Valor. I remember when Medgar Evers was shot and
killed. Valor. I remember when the
Atomic Bomb ruined the lives of thousands of human beings by its after
effects. Valor. I remember when white
Christian Americans would do anything they could to not be drafted (I’m talking
the 40’s). Valor. I remember when boys
were old enough to kill and be killed but couldn’t vote. Valor. I could go on, but I won’t, because at my
age I could fill the page with examples of “Valor”
that you are blind to. Maybe I
should not pass up the chance to mention the Valor of a famous white Christian male by the name of Richard
Nixon.
The next
time you receive a writing full of prejudicial hatred and ignorance think twice
before you press “forward.” I recommend
that you answer the original sender and tell him/her to consider whether or not
what has been sent to you is of a high enough Christian quality to be sent
on. Short of that, it might be better
for your soul if you did not own the sentiments of the piece right from the top
and simply press “delete.”
I
suggest that because I happen to be one white Catholic Christian who knows his
history and his Bible and his moral doctrine and is not afraid to confront
people who spread hatred and discontent through the world via the Internet.
Furthermore,
as a final comment particular to this case, I for one do not believe that this
is the greatest republic [small “r”] that ever existed in the history of
mankind as alleged by the author of the original article.
When you
send this forward, don’t forget to mention my name. I am not afraid to own up to what I have
written here. I am not an anonymous blogger or anything like that.
I am Paul Dion. And you are ?
