Things that Bother Me

1. Conservatives arguing that the Republican Party is the party of Civil Rights.

This bothers me because it ignores parts of history. The Democratic Party used to be a really racist party, yes. The South was full of them. But I must ask, when Reconstruction ended, it was a Republican administration (Rutherford B. Hayes) that pulled the Federal troops out of the South. Where were they, then, when the South imposed poll taxes and Jim Crow. And where were they when thousands of blacks were lynched? It was a common tactic among some Southerners to send the pictures of the lynchings back up North to newspapers. Sickening. So it's not like they didn't know.

The truth as I see it is that both parties are guilty of racism. It just so happens that one party didn't want to be associated with it. So they stopped and reformed.

2. Democrats pandering to their "base."

I've asked this many many times. If you want our vote, why don't you ask us what we want? Noone has yet answered me. And then, when we vote you in, why don't you give us what we want?

3. Protests against anti-war protests, and Anti war protests themselves

Some of them are pretty lame. And it really sucks that a socialist organization has taken reign of a legitimate movement. Many Americans don't want this war that's coming, I among them. But I, and probably the majority of the anti-war movement, don't want to be considered apart of their organization. I hope a more, American (yeah, we'll say that) Peace organization takes the reigns from those nutty nutty ANSWER people. That's all I'm going to say about ANSWER.

I'm anti-war because war conflicts with my religious beliefs. I've become informed enough to know it's not just about oil, it's not just about imperialism, and it's just not about asserting our power. Saddam is a malevolent individual- his whole Baath party is- and the things he's done to people are horrific. I guess I should want those people to be free of him, and don't get me wrong, I do. I just wish there was another way.

I think I'm done ranting for now.