It's not about Race

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Wednesday July 21, 2010 · 10:47 PM PDT

2010/07/21 · 22:47

If you are here you have heard about the story of Mrs. Sherrod being fired. There have been many diaries about this one and that one doing this and that but what it amounts to is what Mrs. Sherrod actually expressed and what is at the heart of this story.

This lady many years ago came to the realization that it has taken many of us years to admit. Yes there is racism in this country but as a great man once said

"Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I'm simply saying that more and more, we've got to begin to ask questions about the whole society...

It's easy to fight over who is more "American" or to argue who has the upper hand, it is much harder to discuss the fact that people in "the south", real Democrats not the Bluedogs, but those that fight them are on our side.

If any of the so called "news outlets" would have bothered to listen to her speech they might have realized she was not talking about race discrimination but class discrimination. Her speech pointed out that it didn't matter whether you were yellow, blue,brown, black, orange, or white, what she said was the haves are screwing the have-nots.

What I got from her speech is the same thing we all should understand and something on which we should agree. At this time, when we are trying to stain the party of "no" with there commitment of taking the middle class for granted there is no excuse for running for the hills. This administration, the NAACP and every news outlet that jumped on the wagon should hide their faces in shame for attacking the one person who had the nerve to say NO.

Keith did a great job tonight but at some point we, that means you and me have to also beat our chest and bang the drum. It's time to show people we

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