Little did I know that my first U.S. presidential vote would be in a historic race.
In early November 2006, about 60 of us immigrants stood in a Nashville courthouse and took the oath of citizenship. It was a disparate bunch, from different corners of the globe. One woman in a sari, obviously from India, smiled at me from across the aisle, perhaps in silent acknowledgment of our common national origin.
Fact is, if Obama was an "other," so were millions of new Americans. The country's demographics are changing, with rising numbers of the foreign-born, the brown-skinned, the biracial, and those in interracial marriages.
Millions of these people probably saw in Obama a piece of themselves. I know I did. As an immigrant who moved from one culture to another, who has evolved into a hybrid over the years, and who has a still-changing identity that is part Indian and part American, I could relate to Obama's story.
I couldn't keep myself from responding.
It is an ignorant and extremely gullible stance to think that the "other" is the better. It is in fact no different than what the "conservative" base does when voting. It gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling that you and other newcomers from other cultures get to shape our culture and help decide our national direction (satire).
This is yet another good reason to reject the false doctrine of "universal suffrage." When you, Prabhu, make a larger consideration for this "nirvanian" world of multiculturalism by the acceptance of a black skinned leader at the expense of Constitutional liberties, you are no different than those who still defend the Bush/Cheney doctrines. (By the way, I have no problem with a black skinned president if they can honestly take the oath of office and defend the Constitution.)
What makes this article that much more offensive is that you are a new citizen telling us how great things are going to be. It is a bit demeaning to those of us (no matter how few) who side with the anti-Federalists, when someone comes in and starts telling us how wonderful this great new leadership will be that is just as tyrannical as GWB was with a blatant Communistic twist.
I can do nothing more than I have to stop this trampling of constitutionalism, but I will lambaste those who come in like carpetbaggers and use a public forum and their so called "right" of suffrage to facilitate change in a manner completely unhealthy to the form of government that these states adopted and entered into voluntary contract thereof.
With all this being said, I would like to reiterate the opening...Only the ignorant, unlearned, gullible, mentally incapable of critical thought and logical reasoning believe that the "other" is the better. Perhaps this is the real reason that we are in the condition that we are here after eight years of Bush (thanks to your counterparts who lean right of left) and now as we top the hill of "progressive-ism" and see the Constitutional constraints of government completely vanish in the rear view mirror.
God save us from ourselves.
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Excellent commentary Damon.
Isn't voting for someone because of their skin color just as racist as voting against someone because of their skin color? It seems the racists won this election.
Of course we know that mult-culturalism is the hood on a very anti-Western engine. Rather than elevating other cultures, the task is made easier by denegrating the dominant culture. The fact is that American cultural norms, institutions and traditions are derived from Scottish, Irish, English and European ancestry. The multi-cult cannot live with this fact so they must destroy it.
It's a shame that the very government that's manifested from these cultural norms is being so dramatically altered by outsiders who denigrate the norms that provide them shelter. Aren't we kidding ourselves if we think we can remain the same country in just a few more generations if things continue down this road?
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