The intense focus on race in this country generated by the liberals is really beginning to annoy me. The Donald Trump Jr - Skittles controversy is the latest example.
Donald Junior was making an analogy about the Syrian refugee problem. We feel sympathy for Syrian refugees but ISIS has told us that they intend to infiltrate their number with terrorists and our own government counterterrorist experts have advised us that they are not capable of accurately vetting the refugees. So DT junior likens this situation to being offered a bowl of candies, in which we are told 2 or 3 have been laced with a lethal poison. What fool would take a handful because they looked so good.
Donald Jr is being accused of racism because he's belittling the Syrians. No he's not! He's presenting us with a simple analogy that is trying to clarify the argument. If you disagree with the analogy give your counterarguments but to try to obscure the issue by a charge of racism is as I said annoying. I'd like to use stronger words but I really don't want to offend any of my friends who might be buying into this.
Meanwhile Barack Obama gives a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus telling them that not working to support Hillary would be a personal insult to him. That is not in itself a racist statement but in the context in which it was given it certainly is. And yet I see no criticism in the papers about what seems to be his overt racism.
Personally I'm a strong believer in the founding principles of our country that all men are created equal and in the idea expounded by Martin Luther King that a man should be judged by the content of his character rather than the color of his skin. And it is annoying as hell to be accused of racism if you believe that the government should do it's job and police our borders so that we know who's coming into our country and for what purpose.
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