Race & Obama

Ginny gives a positive reviews of Barrack Obama’s responds to Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, but Ginny continues the race issue in the USA, which is still a painful to talk about:


I’ll never forget that. I’ll never forget how sick I felt, how I literally almost threw up, how sad, upset, and angry I felt. This added to the sense of fear and foreboding I felt after 9/11, how I was afraid to go outside of my home because of the fear of being attacked. How some of my friends at that time (non-Muslim) stopped speaking to me. How someone who was a friend of a frend said “go back to where you came from”, and the friend stayed silent.

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I wish I could put into words all of the things I still want to say. how sometimes I feel like I don’t fit in anywhere, how hard it is to say “yeah white people have done this”, and not sound like a guilty white person for saying it. Because I’ve been thinking a lot about my previous posts, and methinks they are a bit harsh. I feel badly for saying them.

Because maybe they are true, but I don’t like voicing those sorts of thoughts, because I feel like no matter what, if you’re white, you can’t be in the middle, you can’t say “yes we’ve done a lot of htings”, because then you seem guilty, but if you don’t admit to certain things, like that racism still exists, for example, then you seem like a racist.

Dunner however, sees where the anger come from this way:

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