Read what a white reporter wrote in a Georgia Neswpaper and forward it

This is a MUST read which resonates with at least 90% of the
> > world. Please, please pass this one on, even if you have to print
> > it and mail it to your "computer challenged" friends and relatives.
> >
> > Read what a White Reporter wrote in a Georgia Newspaper
> >
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> > Andrew M. Manis is associate professor of history at Macon State
> > College in Georgia and wrote this for an editorial in the Macon
> > Telegraph.
> >
> >
> > Andrew M. Manis: When Are WE Going to Get Over It?
> >
> > For much of the last forty years, ever since America "fixed" its
> > race problem in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, we white
> > people have been impatient with African Americans who continued to
> > blame race for their difficulties. Often we have heard whites ask,
> > "When are African Americans finally going to get over it?
> > Now I want to ask:
> > "When are we White Americans going to get over our ridiculous
> > obsession with skin color?
> > Recent reports that "Election Spurs Hundreds' of Race Threats,
> > Crimes" should frighten and infuriate every one of us. Having grown
> > up in "Bombingham," Alabama in the 1960s, I remember overhearing an
> > avalanche of comments about what many white classmates and their
> > parents wanted to do to John and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
> > Eventually, as you may recall, in all three cases, someone decided
> > to do more than "talk the talk."
> >
> > Since our recent presidential election, to our eternal shame we are
> > once again hearing the same reprehensible talk I remember from my
> > boyhood.
> >
> >
> > We white people have controlled political life in the disunited
> > colonies and United States for some 400 years on this continent.
> > Conservative whites have been in power 28 of the last 40 years.
> > Even during the eight Clinton years, conservatives in Congress
> > blocked most of his agenda and pulled him to the right. Yet never
> > in that period did I read any headlines suggesting that anyone was
> > calling for the assassinations of presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan,
> > or either of the Bushes. Criticize them, yes.
> > Call for their impeachment, perhaps. But there were no bounties on
> > their heads. And even when someone did try to kill Ronald Reagan,
> > the perpetrator was non-political mental case who wanted merely to
> > impress Jody Foster.
> >
> >
> > But elect a liberal who happens to be Black and we're back in the
> > sixties again. At this point in our history, we should be proud
> > that we've proven what conservatives are always saying -- that in
> > America anything is possible, EVEN electing a black man as president.
> > But instead we now hear that school children from Maine to
> > California are talking about wanting to "assassinate Obama."
> > Fighting the urge to throw up, I can only ask, "How long?"
> > How long before we white people realize we can't make our nation,
> > much less the whole world, look like us?
> > How long until we white people can - once and for all - get over
> > this hell-conceived preoccupation with skin color?
> > How long until we white people get over the demonic conviction that
> > white skin makes us superior?
> > How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments
> > about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites?
> >
> >
> > How long before we get over our expectations that we should be at
> > the head of the line merely because of our white skin?
> > How long until we white people end our silence and call out our
> > peers when they share the latest racist jokes in the privacy of our
> > white-only conversations?
> >
> > I believe in free speech, but how long until we white people start
> > making racist loudmouths as socially uncomfortable as we do flag
> > burners?
> > How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks
> > exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate
> > themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard
> > enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten
> > to assassinate them when they do?
> >
> >
> > How long before we start "living out the true meaning" of our
> > creeds, both civil and religious, that all men and women are
> > created equal and that "red and yellow, black and white" all are
> > precious in God's sight?
> > Until this past November 4, I didn't believe this country would
> > ever elect an African American to the presidency. I still don't
> > believe I'll live long enough to see us white people get over our
> > racism problem.
> >
> > But here's my three-point plan:
> >
> > First, everyday that Barack Obama lives in the White House that
> > Black Slaves Built, I'm going to pray that God (and the Secret
> > Service) will protect him and his family from us white people.
> >
> > Second, I'm going to report to the FBI any white person I overhear
> > saying, in seriousness or in jest, anything of a threatening nature
> > about President Obama.
> >
> > Third, I'm going to pray to live long enough to see America
> > surprise the world once again, when white people can "in spirit and
> > in truth" sing of our damnable color prejudice,
> >
> > "We HAVE overcome."
> > **************************************
> > It takes a Village to protect our President!!!