So... how did YOU become a racist?

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189. Manny's 'satire' has been misguided from the begining

Sometimes clever but almost never very humorous Manny's mission in life is to patronize fellow Democrats that are not in 100% agreement with his sacred point of view. He has a running strawman that he feels is particularly brilliant that he routinely and tediously brings out to heap scorn on supporters of the President for their double standard. Ironically he glosses over the record of President Roosevelt (IMO the greatest elected official of any country at any time) lamenting that Obama is a poor inheritor of the FDR legacy. That is especially ironic in this case where he decries the loss of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution because the President supports the collection of data records on communication patterns that could then be used to identify and pursue potential terrorist suspects. To date no individual American citizen has been identified as having been an actual victim, the concern is based on principle and concern about future use (a legitimate point for rational discussion) . FDR on the other hand authored Executive Order 9066 which authorized the government to establish a zone in 4 states (California, Oregon, Washington and AZ) where Citizens and residents of Japanese were arrested and 140,000 were put into concentration camps and all of their private property stolen. (Oddly enough the order was not extended to Hawaii where the government was monitoring an actual Japanese spy ring the order was not in effect - probably because with 30% of the population of Japanese descent the territory's economy would have collapsed). You may be wondering why one standard for FDR and another for Obama. I don't know that the answer to that but I will say that the divisiveness that Manny relishes in is the Republicans only hope in stopping the left from moving forward.

I am very sorry to hear about your family's struggle with the pain of racism in your family's experience. With my youngest daughter's engagement I now find myself the only Caucasian in our family unit and am pleased to tell you how little racist reaction we seem to get, so at least in some parts progress is being made. I very much appreciated your willingness to share your personal pain on a sensitive subject. Peace.