I was tipped off by a friend that this email is being sent around by McCain supporters. It infuriated me on so many levels.
One, Wheeler is my mother's maiden name and what a disgrace this is to have associated with that name.
Two, it's based on ignorance, fear and lies. It's hard to not be upset by things like this who are going to people who will not take the time to wade through all of the lies and hypocrisy and just accept it at face value. I would love for this to be exposed to as may people as possible and hopefully, just maybe at least one of the recipients of this email or someone who believes this way can be "converted".
Third, Obama has never rejected his White mother's heritage. This is absolutely false. It's sickening that these people who are the reason why mixed people (such as myself) more strongly identify as being Black...google PLESSY VS. FERGUSON. It's their laws that make it so. I do not recall that is was Obama who labeled himself as one race or another. I believe that he behaves as a member of the Human race.
And finally, the fact that they refer to Obama as a descendant of Arab slave owners. I am not sure but it seems that throwing Arab in there is another stab at making terrorist insinuations. People who think like this (below) tend to lump all Middle Eastern and Muslim people together (racial profiling) and use 911 to continually insense hatred toward all of the people of that region. Furthermore, we are all potentially descendants of slave owners thanks to the Mid-Atlantic slave trade and the atrocities that followed. If anyone had the pleasure of watching Henry Louis Gates' documentary where he traced the DNA of several African Americans, you will remember that Quincy Jones' DNA was traced to slave owners. Not only that, there are cases where Black people in America owned slaves. Mostly for the purpose of freeing our own families or ourselves from bondage!! So this alone makes their "inciteful", negative argument ridiculous.
If anything, Obama is more African American than any of us as his father was African and he is American. Most African Americans are at least 6 generations removed from Africa, thus the controversy of determining a proper "label" for "descendants of American slaves brought forcefully here from Africa". I guess that would be too long to put next to a checkbox on applications.
These are just some of my initial reactions to this email and I am by no means a historian. I am sure there are more flaws with the arguments presented by the Hate Mongerers (and perhaps some of my own although I tried to do my homework).
So many untruths...this is the email below in it's entirety. Beware it is nasty, ugly and hate filled. Having said all of that, it's so damn crazy that it really shouldn't be taken seriously anyway. It's just scary that some people are actually not going to recognize that.
Email begins:
>> > Jack Wheeler is a brilliant man who was the author of>> > Regan's strategy to break the back of the Soviet>> > Unionwith the star wars race and expose their inner>> > weakness. For years he wrote a weekly intelligence update>> > that was extremely interesting and well structured and>> > informed. He consults(ed) with several mega corporations on>> > global trends and the future, etc. I think he is in>> > semi-retirement now. He is a true patriot with a>> > no-nonsense approach to everything. He is also a somewhat>> > well known mountain climber and adventurer.>> > Written by Dr. Jack WheelerThe O-man, Barack Hussein Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, no balls, nothing but abstract empty rhetoric devoid of real substance. He has no real identity. He is half-white, which he rejects. The rest of him is mostly Arab, which he hides but is disclosed by his non-African Arabic surname and his Arabic first and middle names as a way to triply proclaim his Arabic parentage to people in Kenya . Only a small part of him is African Black from his Luo grandmother, which he pretends he is exclusively. What he isn't, not a genetic drop of, is 'African-American,' the descendant of enslaved Africans brought to America chained in slave ships. He hasn't a single ancestor who was a slave. Instead, his Arab ancestors were slave owners. Slave-trading was the main Arab business in East Africa for centuries until the British ended it. Let that sink in: Obama is not the descendant of slaves, he is the descendant of slave owners. Thus he makes the perfect Liberal Messiah. It's something Hillary doesn't understand - how some complete neophyte came out of the blue and stole the Dem nomination from her. Obamamania is beyond politics and reason. It is a true religious cult, whose adherents reject Christianity yet still believe in Original Sin, transferring it from the evil of being human to the evil of being white. Thus Obama has become the white liberals' Christ, offering absolution from the Sin of Being White. There is no reason or logic behind it, no faults or flaws of his can diminish it, no arguments Hillary could make of any kind can be effective against it. The absurdity of Hypocrisy ClothedIn Human Flesh being their Savior is all the more cause for liberals to worship him: Credo quia absurdum, I believe it because it is absurd. Thank heavens that the voting majority of Americans remainChristian and are in no desperate need of a phony savior.His candidacy is ridiculous and should not be taken seriously by any thinking American. Pass this on to every thinking American you know!
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