HT mbecker908′s Amplify

If this man were running for President, my husband I would probably entertain the idea of voting for him.

This is a man I could rally around. I love him .. if only for a moment.

Knowing that there are men like him who exist makes me feel better. I feel hope. He is a beacon.

Now that I have this video, I’ve also the tools to better prepare my teenage kids with this racism fiasco propelled by the left.

I tried using Dumbo the other day. Seriously. It half worked.

I’d just commented on Obama calling Al-Qaeda racist online, and Dumbo was just being introduced by his momma as “Jumbo Jr.” to those persnickety elephants. They thought he was cute until they saw his ears. Then they wanted nothing to do with him.

“Jumbo? … You mean Dumbo..”

I turned to my eldest and told him, “They’re cruel because of his ears. Cruelty based on appearance, creed or color. That’s part of racism. If you were to ever cultivate feelings of hate in your heart, based on a “breed” of man, you wouldn’t survive politics and you could never justify your arguments, as a ‘white’ person.”

Then I asked him if he had heard about what had happened with “the man who wants to kill cracker babies” — the man, not the “black man” –  or the NAACP. “Has Dad discussed this with you?”

He replied, “What’s the NAACP?”

Morgan Freeman’s right. The right way to beat racism is to be completely color blind. To regard each other as men, nothing else. Children of God, children of the indigenous earth people, whatever.

This is exactly how we’ve been raising our kids. There are good men, honey, and there are bad men. Learn to distinguish. But that’s it. We don’t speak “stereotypes” and say, with this race, this is what you can expect .. with that one, expect that.

If anything, we leave the door wide open to speak of people from among the Hispanic heritage, because we’re Hispanic. They understand there’s a problem with illegal immigration, a weigh-down of the resources here in America. They need clarity on why these people, that come from their sort of background, would do things a certain way. So we speak openly, provide examples and clarify. What stands out among these discussions is the law and truth. So, even if these Hispanic people may share your ancestry, there is a law that needs to be obeyed .. and if they can’t read it, it’s understood. At the very least, it’s engraved in their heart.

My kid has black friends. They are his teamplayers. He depends on them and they rely on him.

The fact that he is clueless for the NAACP, at a time we’ve discussed pretty much everything under the sun with him and his younger sister, attests, to some measure, the fact that we don’t go there.

Either you agree or disagree.

Either you discover and reveal flaws or your argument is flawed, and we need to polish it.

Either you’re brave or a little weak, and we have to work on it.

Either it’s good or it’s bad, for these reasons. List your pros and cons.

NEVER has it been President Obama is black and he is therefore a bad president. It’s his policies. They hurt our country for these reasons. And the weaklings in our leadership are slow in opposing him, so we have to be brave, be smart and stay tough and fight for conservative values. And be ready when it’s time to vote and talk to our friends.

That’s it. It’s never been about racism.

My kids were blind to racism until they were called racist this past year, in fact — precisely because they were asked, “Do you support Obama?”

“No. His policies hurt our country,” my kids would reply.

They understood how he was manipulating the economy and manufacturing crisis — because we explained to them how Obama and his cronies cry like wee-wee children to get their way. They make a mountain out of a molehill to convince people, the same way a child will convince a weak parent. My kids understood this.

They understand lies, and they’re perceptive. They know when they’re being lied to.

I don’t want them to EVER lose this intuition — it will help them in the future.

So, yes, they know certain things about human nature.. but this. This evil, this people-hate, this horrible, horrible thing were a man will repeat “I HATE white people. ALL of them!” My kids didn’t know this.

They thought Eskeleto telling Nacho In Nacho Libre “I am sick of e-hearing about your e-stupid orphans.. I hate orphans… I hate them… I hate all the orphans in the whole worl’ ” was a hilarious, stupid joke — and they got their cue from their parents (it’s one of our favorite movies .. again, it’s a culture thing).

The kids have thought this sort of hate couldn’t be real. In our real lives here at home, we’ve fought and have been ostracized over a very real “orphan” problem where we told people in charge to quit being weaklings or step aside. Orphan-hate was a joke and Eskeleto was talking off the cuff in a fit.

But this.

We worked racism from the angle of plausible deniability. If the kids weren’t exposed to hate — and I mean real, full-frontal, full-throttle hate, the kind they have been studying on their own this summer about the holocaust — there’s some measure of safety, a measure of innocence left. A blissfulness and truthfulness with which they could respond when answering “No, I don’t know anything about that .. seriously.”

As though knowing about hate would leave them liable — and they would be susceptible to being pointed at and told, “He knows hate!”

I don’t know — 9/11 was a big thing. To know there are people who want to kill us, now, in this moment. This probably played into the delay of fully talking racism.

With the “kill some of they [cracker] babies,” it’s come time to have a full discussion with our kids.

But it’s time.

All summer, we’ve been on this World War I and World War II kick, finding whatever was available at the library for “free rentals.” Beginning with Shindler’s List on Memorial Day, we’ve seen U-571, the Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (WWI Facism), The Pianist, Munich, even little-girlie Fairy Tale, a True Story and kiddie Valiant and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, among others.

Before this summer of patriotism, my kids never really knew about the hatred that was targeted toward the Jews. They weren’t ready. Now, my soon-to-be 13-year-old is reading Wolves at the Door. My 15 year old is reading up on Valkyrie.

Have we always been an “historical” family? No. We’re a Calvin and Hobbes family. We listen to Metallica. We play Halo. And we still go to Church.

For some mysterious reason, the kids are beginning to really dig history.

It’s a sign.

They’re gonna know, President Obama and Mr. Holder. And it’s your fault.

We can’t shield them anymore. It would be neglectful if we did, because guess what — young African American boys are hearing about this from their parents, from their cultural leaders, and from you.

What do you think they’re telling them? Who do you think they want their kids to emulate? The wanna-be cracker-killer? You? It wouldn’t matter, because you both espouse the same vitrolic “racism” that is now an official credo of the NAACP .. what is now official policy at the DOJ.

You’re telling our kids that the teapartiers are racist, and you won’t even being to condemn your own? Or hold them accountable? The first lady visits the NAACP on the eve of the NAACP resolution vote – when has she ever spoken in front of a Tea Party gathering to bring “America together”?

Neither you, nor the group who represents your “race” have a monopoly on morality. And thankfully, what the NAACP espouses is non-binding, nor does it supercede the First Amendment and our right to free speech.

My children will come away understanding this, now.

Do I want them to know this? No.

Thanks for robbing them of their sense of “equality.”

You haven’t been fair, and they’re gonna know.

You brought it on, not me.

For everything you do, we will always have an answer for.

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