The Commercial Appeal

Enough is enough

- Michael Barner, Memphis

I’m sick of the “blacks voted for Barack Obama because he’s black and supported welfare.” Sick of hearing “Hispanics only voted for him because of amnesty.” Well, he got 73 percent of the Asian vote, so what’s the stereotypi­cal excuse for that? “He promised more chicken-fried rice to them”? I’m sick of the garbage.

When blacks hear “food stamp and welfare president,” when we hear “he’s lazy,” “he’s un-American,” “he hates America,” “he doesn’t see America like you and I,” etc., we know that’s good old dog-whistling to stoke fear and hate into whites. So it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why we don’t vote for Republican­s.

Hispanics had to constantly hear about “fences” and “being rounded up and dumped back into Mexico,” not to mention the “stop and harass” law that Republican­s passed in Arizona. But what the GOP has got to understand is there are enough white people in this country who are sick of being dog-whistled to, and they vote against the bigotry as well. important than the security and national respect of this once-great nation? Look for our enemies to test his mettle because they, like many of us, see him as weak and inexperien­ced. His lack of love for this nation is also to their benefit.

He will gut our military, again lower our national credit rating, turn his back on Israel as he embraces the Muslim Brotherhoo­d, make deals with Russia, advocate for more taxpayer-funded abortions (and birth control), adhere to black liberation theology, and continue to borrow trillions from China to subsidize his constituen­cy. Before he leaves office, he will have financiall­y gutted the United States. There will be more takers than producers, as there are almost now.

Will the media report these facts? No, they will continue to blame George W. Bush and rich people, and the pathetical­ly misinforme­d and chronic moochers will continue to wear these rose colored glasses.

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