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Is Republican Prejudice Congenital or Acquired?

To have a Black Republican National Chairman berate Senator Harry Reid for his remarks is the worst form of hypocrisy.

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(MOLALLA, Ore.) - This article is about the President but it is also about Harry Reid, Democratic Majority Leader, Michael Steele, Republican National Chairman, a whole herd of Republican Congressmen and a few Congressional Democrats.

First of all I must say that this is about DISCRIMINATION, PREJUDICE and DIFFERENCES written by a Flaming Liberal with very few prejudices. I don’t know if my personal experiences are unique but they are unusual! I have heard the President use the term BLACK for his race and I will use that. I am a redhead and in a grade school of 200 kids I was the only redhead. The blondies and brunets thought it was a wig and repeatedly tested it by pulling. I fought every bigger kid in my class. Was this prejudice? My classmates were of every race and eventually things settled down. My first girlfriend was Japanese.

In the Army my section mates thought I was queer (because I didn’t smoke), I got along with them also. My grandmother was Castillian Spanish Mexican, no problem there. My first real job was in Georgia. I made the “mistake” of shaking hands with the Black animal keeper. The white secretary never forgave me for that.

I’m not finished. Harry Reid said Obama was elected because he was light skinned and didn’t have a black speech pattern. These observations are obvious and blacks do sometimes bleach their skin (Michael Jackson) and someone who is “high yaller” is considered better off than somebody blacker. It is known lighter skins sometimes “cross” and say they are Cubans, etc.

Regarding Obama’s speech, I doubt if he could speak Gullah, Geech or Ebonics. Hawaii where he was brought up was a polyglot place but the main language is/was American English with a few Hawaiian words thrown in.

Obama started out with a double dose of Chutzpah and a triple dose of Harambee and was obviously successful up till now.

It’s my observation that the President is one of the intellectually brightest and best speaker/orators to come along in years. It appears to me that his Republican “peers” are envious or jealous of his success and tend to consider him “the Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy”. They certainly haven’t shown him much bipartisian help. Even some Democrats seem tainted.

Getting back to my own prejudices. I was invited by The University of London to train the first doctors in Tanzania and I taught there and in Uganda in ALL BLACK colleges. NO, I’m not prejudiced. I got along well and was invited back anytime.

I was a doctor in the Portland Indian Health Clinic. I had the best record, most patients, of any doctor. If anybody called me a racist or sexist, I would be very insulted. We redheads learned long ago to get along with everybody.

To have a Black Republican National Chairman berate Senator Harry Reid for his remarks is the worst form of Hypocrisy.

Mr. Steele is very light complexioned and DOES NOT TALK BLACK.

For the rest of Republicans with their good health plans:

FIE ON YOU!

Before any of that, Phil Leveque was a Combat Infantryman in the U.S. Army in WWII. He suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder more than 60 years after the war, and specialized in treating Veterans with PTSD during his years as a doctor in Molalla, Oregon. Do you have a question, comment or story to share with Dr. Leveque?
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