They say he got elected by the people who look like us. Remember, please, however, that not all the people who look like us voted for him. To those of you who did, enjoy your gloat. It may prove to be the best part of the experience for you. You kept her (or them) out of the White House and that Black Man will soon be out of there, too. Remember, please, however that he is not our first Black President. He is our first Mixed-Race President and so some of the people who look like us, we claim him, too, not least because he represents what so many of you cannot abide – that Black People and White People could love each other, and act on it. Enjoy your gloat, but he represents a future you are not going to stop, despite your beloved guns. There is no cure for your fear because, tarde o temprano, the people who look like the ones he wants to wall out will become too powerful for you to hold back. Remember, please, however, that some of the people who look like us, we welcome that future. And as for that Old Time Religion, it’s not going to let you control your women indefinitely, or erase the men who want sex with men, and the women who want sex with women, or all the many species that grow in that garden. Enjoy your gloat. I wonder if you will enjoy what he will have in store for us. Remember, please, however, that more than half the people, including many of the people who look like us, we voted not to make him president, and we are not going away.
—Bill Bemis
This article appears in Nov 17-23, 2016.
Yea!
Im getting the impression that this publication is considering leaning to the left? Am I reading that correctly?
I’m so sick of this meme.
When it comes to diversity and the folly of trying to fight it, I cannot help but think of the classic Star Trek about the two “aliens” fighting over one being black on the right and white on the left and the other being white on the left and black on the right. We are all humans with more in common than you think, whether you are black and lean to the left or white and lean to the right.
“For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal.”
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
BRAVO!
@BSLAP – Meme?!? Non-bigoted white men are a “meme”? Your depth of thought is sadly indicative of the majority of those who voted for a bigoted white man to take a dump on this country for the next 4 years. Or until he gets impeached, in which case his bigoted VP gets to take a squat at it, too.
Somebody is still feeling sad.
bslap did you vote for Trump…. from the closet? I thought you supported Clinton.
Don’t be fooled. This is what Americans tried to stop. And succeeded.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437883/hillarys-america-secret-history-democratic-party-dinesh-dsouza-clinton-foundation
The hatred of white people by liberals is off the charts. Never in a time of history has their been such blatant racism. Fortunately, the American people saw through it and are disgusted by it. Liberals have been totally repudiated, they hold no power except in isolated islands of communism like Tucson.
Yep, it’s all about the liberal hate and racism. We all know that nonsense just doesn’t exist in the conservative world. Heck, the guy they just helped make President-elect doesn’t have any of those bad qualities. He’s gotta lotta respect for women also. He offers to buy the ladies a couch before he “grabs ’em by the pussy!” I can’t think of a more respectful way to show a woman what a gentleman you can be. Chivalry is certainly not dead with the Orange Overlord.
So much hate for such a tiny and narrow mind. Eventually, it’s gonna build up to the point where you can no longer vent it out quickly enough by simply ranting on this site. The pressure is gonna blow your head apart. Have you ever seen the David Cronenberg film “Scanners”? That will be child’s play compared to where your hate is leading you.
Unfortunately, the far-right racist extremists refuse to learn anything or have feelings for anyone. Nothing can be done to change that. Haters gonna hate.
Mr Bill Bemis I would not normally take the time to read letters to the editor, but you’re title intrigued me. Unfortunately, after reading it, I feel the need to respond to you.
Through your little tirade (I have a 3 year old that does it too) you said “looks like us” at least five times.” Whatever point you were trying to make for the people you think look like you was somehow lost. I wondered what you meant, but upon reading further I see much more clearly.
It appears that your particular problem is with Christianity. If you spent time in the Bible you might know that women “are not controlled.” I happen to be in a long term loving marriage of my choice. Why do you choose to disparage it?
And then to add that it would be Christian’s goal to “erase” sin? Much to the contrary. Sin is human nature. It seems the way that you deal with it is to make it legal. Does that override biblical instruction? If you had clarity of thought you might realize that you and the people you seem closely tied to are trying to force their views on others.
My religion doesn’t call for that. My God allows free will. Rather than bragging about thinking differently than others that “look like you” you could try a little tolerance. It goes a long way.
Fear not little snowflake ac-dc. If you ever reach puberty you’ll understand.
Don Hewett recalls a “60 Minutes” episode about Vernon Jordan, Bills golf pal, when Mike Wallace asked him, “What do you and Bill Clinton talk about on the golf course?” and Jordan answered, “Pussy.”
http://thehill.com/32426-summer-reading-carol-felsenthals-excellent-clinton-in-exile
Well it looks like you are right, Yet, Again. A little google pulled up that gem. I always say to listen to what a liberal claims others are doing and you can see exactly what they are doing.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/do-bill-clintons-words-matter-too/article/2004806
Pat Caddell has it exactly right on CNN and their calling of everybody as a racist. Guess who is the racist?
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/18/pat-caddell-cnn-smearing-trump-supporters-they-call-everybody-racist/
Did anybody catch the breaking story that Breitbart had last night on the ovens in Mexico where the Sinaloa Cartel was cremating Mexican women and children. The liberal media seems to have missed the story completely.
And yet the cupcakes call Breitbart racist? Could it be the racists are the mainstream media and their supporters?
“The hatred of white people by liberals is off the charts. Never in a time of history has their been such blatant racism.”
NEVER in a time of history. Seriously? That’s some awkward sentence structure which you’ve used, also you’re wrong again. Open a history book you dolt.
Also, talking about pussy is one thing; saying that you take it and women accept that because you’re a (very weak example of) a celebrity is quite another.
Haters keep on hating.
The cycle is never ending.
The ignorance and unwillingness to learn will never cease.
Vent harder. That hate pressure expanding your little mind is making you look like a bobble head. Explosion is imminent.
Trump supporters in this comment thread are a bunch of pussies. This is as good as it’s gonna get for you guys. I’m conservative, and you all disgust me. You’ve lost all credibility in any conversation about racism, sexism, bigotry, foreign issues, domestic issues, just about anything, by supporting Trump. Keep reading Breitbart, keep denying/defending your racism, and keep calling anyone who disagrees with you a baby(so edgy and creative). You came out of your racist hidey-holes when Obama was elected, and now you’re emboldened by Trump and his gang of white nationalists and religious nuts. You’re a bunch of pathetic losers who bitch about the liberal media while sucking at the teet of the conservative and alt-right media. Go gas up your big trucks while you can still afford it and and fly your hypocrite flags high so we can all tell who the douchebag, homophobic, racists are. Quoting Brietbart?! Lololol!
Relax snowflakes. Change your panties and everything will be fine.
Nice one with the “relax snowflakes; change your panties” comment. Both condescending and sexist.
What’s sexist about it? Can’t liberal men wear panties with pride?
Not one liberal outlet has yet to address the ovens in Mexico that were used to incinerate citizens by the drug cartel.
Are you going to deny another holocaust? Open your eyes.
Liberal men do wear panties with pride. It’s you conservative “men” who wear them, ashamedly, in the closet.
Wow.I haven’t lived in Tucson since 1983 and just recently returned.
I never realized that the lefties had made such inroads . All I see here is a lot of racism towards white people, especially if they happen to be conservative.
This so-called publication is one of the most biased, whiney, apologist hateful rags I have seen, at least on a local level.You guys are on par with the NYT,Washington Post and other rags that claim they are journalists.