I am having a hard time understanding why people are sending hate mail smearing Barack Obama, our President-elect, when he has not done anything to deserve it. Let's give him a chance to show what he and his administration can do before badmouthing him. I admire him for not lowering himself to the level of those who smear him and believe that he truly wants to unify our country and make it better for every citizen. He certainly has his work cut out for him. Let's give him our support and help him in his efforts. That is what people who love America will do.
A few minutes ago I sent the above paragraph to a relative in Mississippi who persists in forwarding hate mail to me--racist and otherwise derogatory remarks and "jokes" that are offensive and unwarranted. The relatively mild one that triggered my response this evening was an old Osama bin Laden joke in which he sends the White House a coded message--370H-SSV-0773H--that the President and all his advisors, the CIA, and the FBI cannot figure out but that a leader of another country can easily decipher. The Conservatives have brought this "joke" out of mothballs and made Barack Hussein Obama the stupid President and ex-POW McCain and staff the brilliant ones who easily see that the President is holding the message upside down. Already Obama is being ridiculed for not capturing bin Laden! Sigh.
In a short preface to my message I pointed out that George W. Bush is the rightful butt of that joke and the one who failed to capture bin Laden.
Whether my words will have a positive effect on my relative is yet to be seen, but I just cannot condone the sending and receiving of hate mail by not speaking out against it. With the knowledge comes the responsibility.
Teach peace.
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