You have the ability to learn. Use it. Please, your commentary is a pastiche of vague, obtuse statements written as if, given the superficial coverage of the news, you have special insight. Anyone can take quotes out of context, mix and match, interpret without education and condemn; that’s easy. Try doing your homework, reading the entire article from Ayers. Nor can you, from the outside, possibly know the extent or lack thereof of Obama’s supposed “friendship” with a man who acted when Obama was 8 years old and based on a media that isn’t interested in issues but rather ratings. Does being insular, ignoring and denying everyone and everything we disagree with get us closer to mediation? No, it furthers hate, ignorance, denial, and fractures among people. And I have to draw the conclusion that you are abysmally ignorant in regard to the facts of racism and its history in this country. So simple to call others names and descry their words rather than investigate semantics, history, culture and context in order to understand, and then decide. Simplicity is easier, but it is not accurate. And no, I am not an Obama supporter; I am a person interested in facts, evidence, context, and understanding all the components involved in situations.
For example, were you aware that the US government deliberately provoked the Japanese by blowing up their oil supply to get them to bomb Pearl Harbor? Did you know the US government sanctioned giving syphilis to Black workers without their knowledge or consent in order to study the progress of the disease from infection to death? Are you aware of the number of democratically elected presidents in South America that we have been involved in assasinating?
And no, I am not “anti-American.” Like our founding fathers, who I have read carefully, I believe that when you love your country, you fight to make it follow the ethics it should be following, not “my country right or wrong.”
Oh, and I can only assume from your portrayal of the Black Panthers that you do not know that they did not start carrying guns until the FBI fire bombed their homes. Please get an education before you spout more asinine opinions. Oh, yes, I support your right to make them; what I don’t support is that all opinions are equal. Back them with informed understanding and evidence. Or you can keep preaching to the ignorant. NOT stupid, no, ignorant. There is a difference.
