Some thoughts of 77 yr old white male from the south

[clydefrand]

I am a Caucasian male, 77 years old. I’m NOT one of the 1%ers. I’m retired, living on a small pension and social security. My wife also has a pension from her job as well as social security.

We do pay federal, state, sales, property tax, etc.; however, we seem to have been included in the 47%ers Romney doesn’t care about. How can that be?

The GOP seems be going after the white male voters because it hates
blacks, and Romney thinks all white male voters should also hate them.

I was raised in a small Virginia town, and my parents, as I realized years later, were bigots of the worse kind. When I was growing up, race and segregation were just not discussed. I just kind of knew that the blacks lived in a certain part of town, the whites in another, with only a few exceptions.
(eg. A few black families lived in converted chicken coops in alleys behind white folks houses.)

I played with a couple of the children from these ‘coops’. I never thought anything about it, until one day a child’s mother came out and asked me if my parents knew I was playing with her son. I said I had never had occasion to mention it, and she responded “please don’t tell them, because my son likes playing games with you”.

As I got older and into high school, I did occasionally hear some of my classmates saying don’t ever go into the black section nor ever talk to one of the girls there, else we might get beaten up.

I went into the army after high school. In basic training, there were only two blacks in our company, one of them next to me in the same barrack. The first weekend we were given weekend passes, he asked around wanting to borrow $20. He wanted to go home and just wanted to make sure he had enough money to get back. I loaned him the money, and a LOT of the other guys jumped all over me saying ‘you’ll never see that $20 again, and never see the black dude again either’. Well, of course he came back on Sunday evening, and the first thing he did was to return the same $20 bill I had loaned him. Needless to say, no one ever said a word to me about that!

The point I’m making is that I never had any reason to dislike any one based on color. I judge people for who they are, how they act, their honesty, dependability, etc…!

So when Obama ran for president 4 years ago, I never ever gave his color a thought, and I still don’t. WHY ARE IS GOP SO AGAINST THE BLACKS, LATINOS, ASIANS, INDIANS, etc.

Why is the GOP also against gays/lesbians? Why do so many republicans actually believe all the lies Romney/Ryan tell. How do the republicans even KNOW what R/R’s policies are, since they seem to change not only from month to month, not only from day to day, but many times they change on the same day!

How was Obama was able to hire many women for his staff , and he didn’t even HAVE a “binder of women”.

Why doesn’t saving the auto industry seem to count? How can the number of unemployed go down, but they are not giving any credit to Obama? Why is the economy going up, but Obama isn’t getting any credit? How can Romney personally send many many jobs to China? And that makes him a good person to run our country? How come he puts a very large chunk of his money in tax haven countries (Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Switzerland), but this makes Romney a “patriotic” candidate? How come a man has gone through his religion’s rigorous ceremony where he vows his faith first to his religion, then his family, but the vow is to also make this a Mormon country, NOT a democracy?