Author: Steven D

As some of you may know, my wife is nisei, a Japanese-American whose parents immigrated to the US after the WW2.  We have two beautiful bi-racial children, my 16 year old son and his 10 year old sister.  They are one of the centers of my life, and I would do anything to protect them.

Before I met my wife, I confess I had an only abstract understanding of the difficulties that minorities face in a white dominated America.  That has changed significantly since we began our relationship, and particualrly so since we had our children.  We probably haven’t faced as many racial incidents as other mixed race couples (Asians being seen as a more acceptable minority to most whites), but we have encountered enough of them to radically change my view on the importance of ending racial discrimination and promoting racial equality.

My oldest uncle (let’s call him “D” for short) is a WW2 veteran who fought at the Battle of the Bulge.  He’s a great guy, but he has this one significant blindspot.

(More after the break . . . )

(Cross-posted at Daily Kos)

Some of the most prominent Democratic leaders seem to believe that with everything blowing up in the GOP’s face, now is not the time to take any unnecessary risks.  They counsel patience and caution, and a strategy of essentially letting Republicans hang themselves with rope from all the concurrent scandals involving Iraq, “Brownie” at FEMA, no-bid Halliburton contracts, Valerie Plame, Tom Delay, Jack Abramoff, Ohio’s Coingate scandal, Kentucky’s GOP Governor’s employment scandal, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, ad nauseum.

The center piece of this approach is the negative campaign buzzword phrase, “A Culture of Corruption” which if you haven’t heard parroted by Democratic mouthpieces on the Cable News shows yet, well — then you haven’t been watching Cable news.  The idea, as Senator Obama put it oh-so-politely, is not to make waves; i.e., don’t give the GOP any ammunition to fight with, just sit back and take potshots at them for their myriad failures.

Sounds reasonable, doesn’t it.  The ony problem?  It won’t work!

To find out why, follow me below the fold . . .

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