They finally did it.
They lost me.
After being intently focused on the Democratic National Convention last week for both its historic implications as well as tangential story lines, I felt that this week’s Republican Convention would serve as a counter balance with an equally, albeit different, and yet compelling narrative about what Republican leadership in America would mean in the next four years.
Admittedly, things started off a bit slow with Hurricane Gustav impeding the first night, however I expected to see what the tone and overall theme of the convention would be on Tuesday evening with some anticipation.
Unfortunately, I was gravely disappointed.
After last week’s showing in Denver which highlighted the Democratic Party’s commitment to diversity not only in thought and opinion, but also in personage and ethnicity, the Republicans failed to show any diversity in any respects.
I’m through with them.
The fact that this historic juncture in America’s history was so overlooked as to not allow the Republicans to fine one brown face, one voice of seeming dissent, or one person who didn’t look like “one of them” to be highlighted or even seen is beyond a disappointment. Its an insult. As I panned the audience I was shocked to see that there was an overrepresentation of old white men and an underrepresentation of of just about everyone else.
How can this be?
How could they even allow this to happen this time?
What were they thinking?
Obviously they weren’t thinking statistically. In a country where minorities are quickly becoming a majority and African American and Hispanic populations continue to swell, the idea of reaching out to roughly 35% of the population must have been a reach for them. Instead, they seem to want to latch on to “culture” and “taxes” voters and hope that they don’t see through this sham that is inculcated and institutionalized exclusion on the part of the country’s political system. Add to that the fact that they would choose to denigrate opposing views of American values as being somehow unpatriotic doesn’t just smack of arrogance, it is increasingly jingoistic and racist.
Yeah, I said it.
The Republicans have decided to run a campaign of exclusion and choose an “Us vs. Them” strategy with the “Us” being the so called white mainstream and the “Them” being the increasing diversity of the population of America.
I can’t stand for that.
I can’t stand with that.
I’m Corey Richardson and I don’t approve that message.
Where’s JC Watts? Where’s Michael Steele? Where are the brown faces they drag out when its time to push an issue that throws black people under the bus? Can you at least try to fool me this time? Or do me and those like me just not matter? Is there such a sense of strife in America that this election is devolving into the fight for the future as they see it vs. who we see it?
I hope not.
But then again, what should I have expected… These people have finally taken off their masks to expose their faces (or white hoods, I can’t be sure) and all I’m waiting for now is for someone to get frustrated and just say, “WE CAN’T LET THIS NIGGER WIN” on camera so I can finally be justified.
Sarah Palin is a self avowed redneck.
Fred Thompson called for a new culture war in America.
Karl Rove wants us to see Barack Obama as an Uppity Negro and wants people to put him in his place.
The whole thing makes me sick.
Now the question is, what side do you stand on?
When they say "throw your hands in the air" at this party, they're probably arresting you
