By Derrick Anthony

I am not a big fan of the term “PC”. I think political correctness is something that was made to force people to play nice, to keep feelings from getting hurt, it is the ultimate example of the little league try out that let’s everyone on the team regardless of ability to play so there will be no hurt feelings. I think that everyone trying to be PC has led to the term “I’m colorblind” or “I don’t see color everyone is just people to me.”

 

 
 
One of my favorite republicans uttered these very words not long ago. When the conversation about the dreaded “N” word came up on “The View” Elizabeth Hasslebeck stated that she didn’t understand racism, she grew up in a place where people didn’t see color. Like wise the current race for President, only when we speak from a historical place, do you hear that Barack Obama is African American.

But when we discuss why, between being a hair’s breadth from a real life financial depression, unemployment levels higher than they have ever been in this country, people’s homes being foreclosed upon left and right, A war that nobody seemed to want and that seems to have no end in sight, and generally America becoming one of the most hated places in the world after eight years under a republican rule, why is this race still so close?

The media, some who I love some who I despise, find it impossible to say that the reason this is a race at all, the reason we sit and wring out hands in worry is because this country, the great melting pot, still has problems with a black man in charge.

 
 
 
“Oh you know I don’t see color” is probably one of the most racist statements anyone can make. Of course you see color, unless your blind, it is one of the first things you notice about people. As human beings it immediately colors (no pun intended) how you are going to relate to that person. If you are over four years old that is just the truth, that is how this country is, and you know what, you should embrace that. Not seeing color means that you don’t see my culture, you don’t see the things that make me me.

If nothing else this election shows more and more that there is more then one America, and that sadly at the end of the day there are Americans that when drowning will pick a concrete filled life jacket over jumping on the rescue boat captained by a minority. How sad is that?