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Ignorance is not bliss if it makes us hateful

I was reading this blog about "Insults at Inauguration?", and I have to say that this was what my previous post was really about. Only would truly ignorant people really find that prayer and the statements made by Barack Obama to be attacks against whites or any other race. People that look at this in negative light probably do not realize what Martin Luther King, Jr. really stood for.

The point is this: Stop picking apart words and putting in meanings to get your personal agenda stated. The fact is this is the first African-American president in our country's history. The fact is caucasians did do some things that I think the good-natured caucasians probably wish never did. The fact is that was a prayer - not an attack.

Another fact - Barack Obama did say "we." He also used "we" to talk and describe the United States of America. He didn't specifically say, "The voters who did not vote for me are this or that." He said "we." I firmly believe he has our country's best interest in mind. As I said before I'm not a Democrat. I am also white. I would like to think that we can look at this as an opportunity to come together as a nation, or we can look at it with negative light and find anything and everything wrong with what the President does and says just to be pessimistic and not help the country in general.

Never before have I felt so compelled in politics, but I firmly believe one person's actions and words can effect many. From what I saw of the inauguration videos and articles that covered the event in its entirety, he really did show the virtues of a leader on this day. We should take it as that and move on. We won't agree with everything, but to pick apart words and try to come up with meanings that may or may not even be there is tiresome and growing old. Go with what he says and does - if and when he slips up - then make it known.

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