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Okay, so apparently a German food company made chicken fingers and called them Obama fingers. But then other people are saying that this company is racist. I don’t even know where the heck they’re getting this from. I think about it, and it’s almost like the people calling the company racist is racist. I mean, think about it, they said they were just paying homage to the relaxed American lifestyle (I don’t think we’re relax as much as casual, we’re always on the go, or so it feels.) I’d believe that, you know, a new start a ‘thank God Bush isn’t there anymore.’ and Yet, people are throwing fits because “It’s associating black people with fried chicken” Of all the things, I think this is an outrageous statement. Or rather, just a ridiculous one. My reasoning for calling the people racist (rather than the company) is because they see Obama and immediately think ‘black’. If it was a white person people wouldn’t see it as “associating white people with friend chicken.” It would simply be a name like “bush’s baked beans” or “Long John Silver’s SeaFood” but no, everyone knows Obama is black, everyone made a big deal about it. Now that people actually want to name food after him it’s ‘associating that food with black people’. Anyone really know the history of fried chicken in the states? It was in the south and was typical slave food, that’s why it’s associated with blacks, because that’s where it began. Now people call it Soul Food in order to break away from those stereotypes. I knew it came from slave food, but just because I’m eating fried chicken I don’t go, “This is Black food” or “This was slave food” if I step back and think about it, I can recall, ‘Yes, it did originate in the South as typical slave food’ but I don’t think about it every time. I know it because it’s history, simple as that. By calling the people racist for putting Obama’s name on it is simply ‘The Red Scare’ all over again. Which America seems to do when it comes to race or religion. How do we say it “politically correct” You can’t mention Santa! You can’t say why there’s a break in December, it’s simply Winter Break, not Holiday break, (even though more than one religion has celebrations in that month) It’s ridiculous. It’s from freedom of religion, it’s fear of religion, fear that we might offend someone, their beliefs, etc. And it’s ridiculous, because no matter what you do, you’re always going to offend someone, that’s just how the world works, but what really annoys me is when people do feel insulted because some teacher put up a Santa thing for winter, ignore the fact they also put a Christmas tree up, a menorah, and a million other designs up, no, it’s Santa that needs to go, because the idea of a Fat man being jolly and giving gifts to children who are good just may corrupt my child. Because my child knows how evil Santa is, right? No, it’s the parents, it’s always the parents. It’s the parents that say what’s good for their child or not. If you think the parent is always right, read A Child Called It by David Pelzer. Read it completely, don’t just skim, then come back and tell me that the mother was completely in the right, that she did the right thing and everything she did was best for the child. Then we’ll take you away to the mental hospital because no one deserves to go through even half of that. It’s an amazing book by the way, never read it in one sit, I doubt anyone could handle that unless they had a heart of stone. Anyway, I’ve gotten completely off topic, and I guess my point isn’t “This is stupid” it’s more “this whole thing is stupid”. Parents over react thinking that their child being exposed to other cultures and religions and other ways of life will harm their child permanently. you can’t keep a kid in a bubble, there was some article a week or two ago about a Kid who had his organs harvested before he was officially claimed dead, apparently the kid was there because of a serious injury during snow boarding and a comment from one mother was “Her first mistake was 5 years ago letter her kid snowboard to begin with, it’s dangerous” Well. if that’s the case, the kid shouldn’t even be allowed to breath, because God for Forbid there are toxins in the air! That’s dangerous that stuff could cause asthma. And forget about drinking water “you don’t know what’s been floating in that stuff” and don’t even think about walking outside “What if a Horse or Car run you over! you’re dead!!” Oh dear oh dear, the moral? Well, it’s shut up and let your kid experience life. There’s an obesity problem, so saying “No, exercise might kill you, I’d rather you die a slow death with high blood pressure and heart attacks as you laze out on the couch because I wont let you do anything” it just stupid. It’s counter-active. I think I said that wrong, but the point is, you can’t keep kids in a bubble, you might want them to be in a bubble, but they wont allow it. Because they need to realize that there are other people out there, and they are different then them. Being exposed to different people as a child makes you think they’re like anyone else, and nothing to fear, because there isn’t anything to fear from people different than you. There are obvious things, like murderers and rapist and etc. but just because someone has a different religion or is a different race doesn’t mean they’re going to rape your child! I mean, I find it so ironic, I hear all this stuff about Christians fearing other religions and yet I’ve seen so many articles about Christian leaders of the church and what-not doing terrible things to kids. I guess when a kid says “God has touched me,” you can’t just assume they mean God has had a positive impact in their life, it could mean… well… I made it pretty obvious, didn’t I? What I’m saying is people hurt each other, but race, religion, and other factors don’t mean that they’re bad people. In fact, not understand other religions and cultures could make bad people, because they don’t understand the other race, then they fear it and then we have the civil war all over again, I’ll tell you one thing it sure wasn’t civil.