Here it is, in all its stupefying, caps-locked, exclamation-pointed glory:
LET ME SEE IF I HAVE THIS STRAIGHT:
HIS FATHER WAS A KENYAN, MUSLIM, BLACK - WE HAVE SEEN PICTURES OF HIS 'AFRICAN FAMILY'
HIS MOTHER IS A KANSAN, ATHEIST, WHITE -
WHERE ARE THE PICTURES OF HIS KANSAN, WHITE MOTHER
AND HIS WHITE GRANDPARENTS WHO RAISED HIM?
HIS FATHER DESERTED HIS MOTHER AND HIM WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG
AND WENT BACK TO HIS FAMILY (WHOSE FAMILY ?) IN KENYA ?
HIS MOTHER MARRIED AN INDONESIAN MUSLIM AND TOOK HIM TO JAKARTA WHERE HE WAS SCHOOLED IN A MUSLIM SCHOOL .
HIS MOTHER RETURNED TO HAWAII AND HE WAS RAISED BY HIS WHITE KANSAN GRANDPARENTS ? WHEN ?
HE LATER WENT TO THE BEST HIGH DOLLAR SCHOOLS, HOW?
HE LIVES IN A $1.4 MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE THAT HE ACQUIRED THROUGH A DEAL WITH A WEALTHY FUND RAISER.... HOW?
HE 'WORKED' AS A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST IN CHICAGO - HAS NEVER HELD A PRODUCTIVE JOB.
THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT A CIVIL RIGHTS POST, NOR IS IT SUBJECT TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SET ASIDES
HE ENTERED POLITICS AT THE STATE LEVEL AND THEN THE NATIONAL LEVEL, WHERE HE HAS MINIMAL EXPERIENCE
HE IS PROUD OF HIS 'AFRICAN HERITAGE'
BUT IT SEEMS THAT HIS ONLY AFRICAN CONNECTION WAS THAT HIS AFRICAN FATHER GOT A WHITE GIRL PREGNANT AND DESERTED HER.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT SPERM CARRIED A 'CULTURAL' GENE.
WHERE IS THE PRIDE IN HIS WHITE CULTURE?
HE GOES TO AN 'AFROCENTRIC' CHURCH THAT HATES WHITES, HATES JEWS, AND BLAMES AMERICA FOR ALL THE WORLD'S PERCEIVED FAULTS AND THEN REPEATEDLY COVERS UP FOR THE PASTOR AND THE CHURCH
HE CLAIMS THAT HE COULD NOT CONFRONT HIS PASTOR, B UT HE WANTS US TO BELIEVE THAT HE CAN CONFRONT NORTH KOREA AND IRAN , YEAH, RIGHT!!!
YEAH, I THINK I SEE HOW HE COULD BE A 'UNITER' AND BRING US TOGETHER.
I THINK THE HOPE IS THAT HE HOPES NO ONE WILL PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER UNTIL AFTER THE 'ELECTION'
LIKE I SAID AT THE START, ' I AM CONFUSED !!!!'
Wow, I just don't know where to begin on this one. This e-mail has it all, the use of 'black,' 'white,' and 'muslim' with the motive force of a slur, the reference of his 'African father' who got a 'white girl pregnant' (that's an old bugbear, for sure), the casual dismissal of his job as a Civil Rights activist (which is hard and laudable work, and besides he was a community organizer -- a critical difference), the assumption that he made it as far as he did because of Civil Rights and nothing else...hell, this email even mentions sperm.
Besides, this is America in the 21st Century! Who in the &%#! talks like this anymore?
What stuns me is that many of these questions the author is CONFUSED!!!! by are easily answerable with a little internet research. Ridiculous and disgusting. In such serious and trying times, emails like this are a scandal and an affront to the dignity of all Americans.
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I think I've gotten this one before. Basically I see it (and it's popularity) as evidence of fear of change. Change from the WASP we've had (albeit JFK wasn't technically one) to something that more reflects a country that many (in the mostly older) generation don't recognize anymore.
The emails don't bother me. I'm just scared of an RFK incident happening again.
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