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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Obama fans, what say ye?
  • Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:33:26 -0500


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.





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