My Message To Joe Klein
By Bob Parks (06/25/08)
Monday on CNN's Election Center with Wolf Blitzer, Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein said, Well, I just think that the image is kind of hilarious when you think about it: Barack Obama at a country club sipping a martini. It's kind of a parody of the Republican view of the world. Everybody belongs to - since when do we start letting people like Barack Obama into Republican country clubs?
It's obvious the implication Klein is making, so let's cut to the chase….
Since changing my party registration in 1995 from Democrat to Republican, I have been "let" into country clubs. Let me rephrase that: I've been invited to speak to people in attendance at Republican country clubs. I have never been patronized as a black Republican, and I must assure you, Mr. Klein, I'm not stupid. If I sensed any condescension, I would've been out of there in a heartbeat.
But the Republicans I've had the privilege of meeting, from all walks of life and parts of the country, have been courteous, if not treating me like a member of their family. I have been embraced, while being treated like an equal, not an affirmative action acquaintance whose presence need be tolerated.
"Tolerate". That's one of your liberal words.
Don't get me wrong; I have had my disagreements at times with Republicans, but it's always been civil and NEVER gotten racial.
However, since becoming an outspoken Republican I have not always received such courtesy by some Democrats and liberals.
I have been called a nigger, Uncle Tom, sell out, wannabe white, bootlicker, Sambo, and in some cases, variations and multiples within one message received. As I value free speech as much as many of your fellow liberals, I would never do anything to suppress it. So I invite you to go to my YouTube channel and view some of the comments left me by your fellow tolerant types. I would be willing to bet if Barack Obama got anything close to that, you would have featured those comments in one of your columns by now.
Your implications that Republicans are racist are based on your self-adoring opinion of liberals as tolerant and inclusive. It's my experience that some are anything but, and they deem black conservatives Public Enemy Number One as we blow your baseless accusations of racism against Republicans out of your dumpster water.
You, as a supposedly-informed employee of Time Magazine must know that the liberally-coronated "first black president" Bill Clinton was the one who initially introduced race into the 2008 DEMOCRAT primary. Before you again accuse Republicans of racism, you'd better have something more than a "parody of the Republican world view".
You wouldn't want to see the parody (with documentation) I could come up with about Democrats.
http://blackandright.mndnet.com/2008/06/24/my-message-to-joe-klein/
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