JIMMY CARTER IS RIGHT
A Commentary by Lloyd C. Daniel
Why is there so much anger and fear in the public debate over the White House’s moderate plan for health care reform? Have you had a chance to stop and think why there are so few people of color or young people of any nationality actively protesting? The main reason is because we won the last presidential election! It’s not all about race and that’s not what Carter said. And it’s not just about political disagreement. This political passion play is also about paranoia and other forms of madness. That’s why some of the demonstrators are scary to the point of embarrassment for many Republicans. I don’t think that racism, alone, would lead a rational person to conclude that this is the end of the world and that the President is the anti-Christ. But let’s face it, many people find it hard to accept that they were smashed at the polls back in November and a new America is on the rise, an America within which white skin privilege just isn’t quite what it used to be. So at the adrenaline charged demonstrations, they’re unintentionally showing all of America their true feelings, their “true colors”. They make a mockery of what they claim to stand for, and as conservative Congressman Joe Wilson auditions for a cameo, walk on role, as the guy who stands, this time, not in “the school house door”,
but the hospital door, once again, “the whole world’s watching” to see what this country is really about.
Rep. Lloyd C. Daniel is a writer, educator, advocate and a former member, of the Missouri House of Representatives. His website address is HYPERLINK "http://www.lloyddaniel.info" www.lloyddaniel.info
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