I'm a white boy, and reading this disturbs me. I wonder how I would feel if I was Clarence Thomas, or Condoleeza Rice?
I wonder how I would feel if I was someone with dark skin and African lineage, an American who was working hard to make the most out the opportunity that being an American gives me.
I think I'd be pretty pissed off to think that I could rise to the top of my field, distinguish myself with rare excellence, and still have these "democrat" mouthpieces talk trash to me, and refuse to give credit where it is due. I tell you, I think every word ever uttered by any "democrat" from here on out would fall on very deaf ears. I would feel betrayed -- yes, Al Gore betrayed -- by those who have been telling me that conservatives were my enemies all along; that capitalists were trying to "enslave" me, and that white republicans saw me as an inferior species.
I would know now just who it is that is using me -- my race! -- and the struggles of my ancestors -- to further their own twisted agenda; I would know who secretly rejoices at the sickening deterioration of the black community -- because it keeps him in power; just who it is that wants me to be dependent on (read: enslaved by) him; and just who it is that really sees me as hopelessly unfit for dignity and respect, regardless of my superlative accomplishments.
The people speaking this way would have consigned themselves to be forever irrelevant to me. And I would vow to never again entrust my future, my children's future, or the future of the land I love to anyone who uttered such things ever again.