I’ve been struggling mightily with this. Not only every talking head and newspaper writer in the whole world, but also large numbers of my acquaintances have entered a state of near-delirium over the result of last Tuesday's election.
Many of them have been saying “Please, just let us have this moment.” This is startling because at some level, they’re acknowledging that the hope, joy and even (God help us) the tears that they’ve invested in what is merely the result of an exercise in transferring political power, are phony and will not last.
Not suprisingly, the more that people like Francis become irrelevant, the more that they will start to tear away at the very fabric of reality in order to create the alternate versions of any and all situations.
Francis takes the painfully obvious and twists it into something that makes ones brain throb. Not in-so-much as it is a difficult piece to read, but that his thesis is so ridculous, so preposterous, that it will, in fact, cause vessels to burst in your brain.
Either they believe they themselves are racists, and they were suddenly redeemed by their vote for a black man. This is messianism of a high order. It's very unsettling, and very creepy.
The other possibility is that they all believed hitherto that every white person in America is a racist except for themselves and their acquaintances. And they’re overjoyed that all the rest of us turned out not to be as racist as they’d all been led to believe.
Sorry. I’ve never been a racist. And I’ve never believed that all that many people in America really are animated by racism and ignorance. If nothing good comes out of this election, perhaps at least we can get past this slander born of the sins of past generations of people, none of whom is still alive today.
What Francis is trying so hard to escape, is that many people - both within and outside of his political affiliation - have been and will continue to have their thoughts and actions guided, in part or in whole, by racial divisiveness.
This article, and more that are sure to come, are and will be nothing but a pitiful attempt to try and completely dismiss the notion that racism ever existed.
Those that not only voted for Obama, but actively and passionately campaigned for him, don't think that this is a fleeting moment. We see this as the beginning of something. It is the start of a progressive revolution not meant to simply stay within the confines of politics.
These people who have allegedly said "please, let us have this moment" to Francis are not speaking as if this is a one-time-only deal. They are saying, if in fact we are to believe the author's statements as true, that the far-right conservative ideology - which is continually vomited forth from Redstate - is specifically designed to stamp-out any and all voices and actions that wish to see this nation returned to it's founding principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Francis Cianfrocca, and all like him, wish to deny the very existance of things that are still poisoning America. They wish to indoctrinate our children rather than have them develop their own thoughts and opinions. They wish to establish their own segregationist tactics against gays, lesbians, non-Christians, hispanics, and yes - blacks.
The author may not consider himself a "racist" and has stated as such. However, it is undeniably obvious that he is - for lack of a more appropriate or even coloquially resonant term, a fucking idiot.
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