I'm going to drop this here...

[jwirr]

50. It was easy to take it personal. In that audience in Seattle were people

just like me - old, interested in the issue of Social Security-Medicare-Medicaid, most of them were likely aware of the situation in Seattle but because I live elsewhere that message came out only as anti-white. Especially anti-white liberal. Had no idea what they were talking about in regards to anything other than the killing of black people. The message was geared to the local audience and was misunderstood by non-locals.

I suspect had I been from Seattle and aware of Seattle politics it would have meant a whole other thing to me. As it was it had a national audience. And we took it literally.

I have always been proud of my families actions regarding slavery in the USA. My great+ grand father immigrated from German and immediately him and his 16 year old son joined the Union Army to fight slavery because they were absolutely against slavery in any form having come from a country that still was practicing slavery. The other side of the family were Republicans in the best sense of the word - Abraham Lincoln Republicans. They were part of the Underground Railroad. And there has not been one single generation that did not follow in these footsteps. Right down to my generation who have become part of mixed race families who we do not want killed because of the color of their skin. Imagine if you will how that message sounded to people like me.

We need to get beyond this and back to working together for what we all want. If we do not we will all lose.