I call my 11-year-old white, Jewish son “monkey” all the time. It’s one of my favorite nicknames for him, others being “catnip” and “madman.” My younger son I tend to call “baby” and “bunny” and “boo-boo.” He says I can keep calling him those things in private, but please, not around his friends.

I regularly and affectionately call them monkeys when they’re climbing on stuff, and I also call them cats, pot pies (golden brown on the outside, yummy food on the inside), and coconut heads (fuzzy and brown). Nobody seems to mind that. But mention “watermelon” around a black person and see how fast you get called a racist. I scrapped plans to make a set of watermelon potholders and dishcloths for sale, lest I offend someone.

In the brave new world that our future holds for us, we should ALWAYS refer to others as

CARBON BASED NON-GENDER SPECIFIC INSIPIENT BEINGS

You say the world still looks up to America. And for that reason this election is important. You are right.

And for that reason Obama is not the person to provide the “direction, “guidance” and “leadership” you say is needed. Obama will take us in precisely the wrong direction.

There is a simple 8-stage scale of the typical lifespan of a democracy. Google it. A democracy lasts approximately 200 years. We’re at the apathy leading to dependence stage, most likely. The dependence stage leads back into bondage. And is the final stage.

Obama, with his plans for government intrusion into our lives, would seal our fate. Somewhere I read that a democracy dies when the people realize they can vote themselves “goodies.” Isn’t that just what he’s saying people want? And what he offers?

If you notice, spiritual faith is established in the earliest stage. Obama would give us government as our god. We need to get ourselves back in touch with a faith in God rather than in anything man can offer us.

We would then be that Shining City on the Hill Ronald Reagan spoke of so wonderfully. And we would then be worthy of the leadership, guidance and direction so sorely needed for a lost and wounded world.

Seems to me that the actual hate crime in question is yet to come.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_buffalo_incident
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The “water buffalo incident” was a controversy at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. Student Eden Jacobowitz was charged with violating Penn’s racial harassment policy. He had shouted, “Shut up, you water buffalo,” out his window to a crowd of mostly black Delta Sigma Theta sorority sisters creating a ruckus outside his dorm. Others had shouted at the crowd, including several who shouted racial epithets, but Jacobowitz was the only one charged.
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Jacobowitz explained his choice of “water buffalo” as from Hebrew slang, “Behema,” used by Jews to refer to a loud, rowdy person. He procured several expert witnesses who attested to this and others, such as Michael Meyers, who gave testimonies that “water buffalo” was not a racial epithet against African Americans.
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… welcome to America.

=darwin