NORMAN — Editor, The Transcript:
Barbara Hill is upset that a few bigots have insinuated themselves into the Tea Party. Up front, one should note that there is no ID check at the door or initiation ceremony or even a background check before you can call yourself a bona fide member of the “Tea Party”, which refers, originally, to an event of protest rather than a political party.
However, since she has made a point of the racist leanings of a few quotes from “Dreams from my Father”, Obama’s vehicle to fame?
1. “I found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.”
2. “There was something about her that made me wary, a little too sure of herself, maybe and white...”
3. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”
BH specifically identifies herself as a Jew who finds the Tea Party unattractive because there’s a bunch of Christians in it. While that is her prerogative, I find it ironic in that Christians (of the multiple and multiplying denominations, each with a different interpretation of the hand book, i.e.: the Bible) have as a basic tenant a reverence for the Holy Land, AKA Israel. Compare, for example, former Pres Bush’s staunch backing of Israel versus Pres Obama’s outright animosity to everything Israeli.
Might as well throw in one last quote, this one from “The Audacity of Hope”: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” Not much “Hope” left and the winds, they are shifting!
I can’t resist one last example of the current environment. In my daily travels I come upon and interact with many “black” people. In one conversation I mentioned that as a presidential team I would have jumped on the band wagon of a Powell/Rice ticket in the stead of any of the candidates of either party that had come forward. The folks at the table, virtually in unison, said: “Oh, they’re not really black.”
BILL LOGAN
Norman
