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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 14, 2008, at 6:54 PM, EarthNSky wrote:

> Gene GeRue wrote:
>  I see no evidence of bigotry whatsoever. His
> > background has nearly made him immune to bigotry. He seems to me to
> > very tolerant of opposing views.
>
> How does his background make him immune to bigotry?  If you know, then
> we need to market that lifestyle in a book...we'll be  
> bazillionaires..I
> can see it now..
> _How to Find an Ideal Background for Your Child:  End Bigotry Forever_

Ah, I do love a dreamer. Should you ever seriously consider writing a  
book under the belief that it will make you rich, well, pull up a  
chair and we will chat.

Okay, Obama's background, as I believe it is: he was born to a white  
Christian-background-but-likely-agnostic girl impregnated by a black  
non-practicing-Muslim-who-later-became-an-atheist young man from Kenya  
who deserted mother and child a couple years later and probably became  
a bigamist, they divorced, his mother then married a southeast-Asian  
non-practicing Muslim, and mother, son and stepfather lived in  
southeast Asia for about four years where his playmates teased him  
about his kinky hair, his strange diet and his plumpness and he  
attended for two years a public school with substantially Muslim  
students but in fact it is very open to those of all religious  
persuasions, then he attended a Catholic school for two years, he was  
then substantially raised by his mother's parents in melting-pot  
Hawaii, he excelled in school, went to Harvard, became a lawyer, did a  
lot of social work in Chicago, and, well, you likely know from that  
point on, he went into state politics and then the Senate.

It seems to me that anyone who has been subjected to/lived through/ 
enjoyed/struggled with/come out of that kind of very diverse  
background would be essentially immune to bigotry.