Own a radio station and don't meet his standards? Fine. He'll require 100% of your yearly profits, as well as a fine. All subjective according to his definition of media diversity and localism.
Oh, if only we could be like Venezuala under Hugo Chavez. Well, if we don't oppose this guy, we might.
"I believe in the words of Martin Luther King, 'Judge somebody by the content of their character.' Why are we being dragged back into the 1950s, 1850s, where we're looking at somebody's skin color?" Glenn Beck
Because we elected a President, dragging his friends behind him, whose religion is obsessed with it and worships at the feet of Black-Liberation Theology.
Recently, I interviewed a man for a freelance article that happened to have been raised in Hawaii. He came to America in adulthood, discovering the definition of racism for the first time.
He told me he honestly didn't know what it meant. In Hawaii, an amalgam of races, it didn't exist. It wasn't part of their language, part of their heritage, part of their lifestyle.
Then he came to the Mainland, specifically California, and experienced first-hand the fixation on it.
I found that interesting, especially since our President, consumed by it, was raised in Hawaii.
We are not subject to world views. We choose them. I don't care about your experiences, I care about how you handled them. And racism or not, you can choose to let it define you, enslave you, and rule you. Or you can be stronger than that.
I grew up in an all Indian school. I, an Irish/German/Cherokee white girl, was the minority.
The Indian students received government assistance, free school supplies, free lunches, even a free annual school trip to go ice skating or attend an amusement park, while me and the other 15 "white" students spent the day in empty classrooms.
Not that I minded. It was quieter.
Does racism happen? Yes, on all sides, to every race. Get over it.
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