Racism, the new American past-time?

I have been utterly appalled by what I am seeing in America these days.

In conversation after conversation, I am detecting either subtle or not-so-subtle hints of racism. Whether it is a "northerner" from a supposedly anti-racist northern city who still manages to drop in allusions to color (African American) or accents (African-American or Hispanic) into the conversations OR whether it is the anti-immigration paranoia of Candidates for President such as Mitt Romney, I am utterly appalled at the racism still present in our GREAT LAND of the U.S.A.

At one point in our Nation's history, racism was easily identified. For example, in the South, "Jim Crow" laws all but enslaved the Black population through functionally denying them the VOTE and also even maintaining "separate and unequal" segregationist policy.

More recently, under Ronald Reagan, the U.S. supported the 1980's South African apartheid government (claiming to be "anti-communist"), a historical blunder of immense magnitude as South Africa has emerged as a multi-cultural, multi-linguistic, and increasingly prosperous modern nation state first under Nelson Mandela and now continuing through 2007.

But now, rather than "anti-black," the Republican Party (at least the "party" not loyal to George W. Bush and Senator John McCain!) is increasingly "anti-Hispanic." Whether it is Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani or their racist minutemen cronies, the Mexican "illegal immigrant" is the new scapegoat in 2007. Back during WW II it was the Jew under Hitler. Now, under Romney, Giuliani, et al, it is the Mexican "illegal immigrant" who is supposedly the source of our national woes.

And yes, folks, this is racism writ large!

For an alternative to the racist paranoia of parts of the Republican Party, VOTE Rob J in '08. I am testing the waters and still looking for a sign! I represent the interests of Conservative Catholicism, Evangelical Protestantism and Orthodox Judaism. Consider what life would be like under a specifically Christian Government. After all, our Nation's founders all made it a point to be in regular attendance at an Orthodox, Trinitarian Church each Sunday morning.

Blessings in Jesus,
Rob J King, Candidate for Jesus, testing the waters