"We’re supportive of the president, but we getting tired, y’all,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said in August. “We want to give [Obama] every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don’t know what the strategy is."
via thehill.com
"We’re supportive of the president, but we getting tired, y’all,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said in August. “We want to give [Obama] every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don’t know what the strategy is."
Those remarks are deeply offending to me. "Our people"?! They're Americans, ma'am, and your implications that they are not, or are not considered thus, is egregious and divisive. I think you will find outside your political cloister that all Americans are hurt when other Americans suffer. Just because we differ in how to address it doesn't mean there isn't caring.
And let's look at the other side--the Congresspeople in the Congressional Black Caucus are still Congresspeople. They're jobs are to improve this country's economic well-being--that means all Americans not just those of a particular ethnic group that you happen to favor. That's hyphenating America; John Wayne once wrote a great poem about what happens when we hyphenate ourselves called "The Hyphen". The poem ends thus:
"So you be wise in your decision, and that little line won’t cause division. Let’s join hands with one another, for in this land, each man’s your brother. United we stand; divided we fall.
We’re Americans. That says it all."
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