Obama & the Post-Racial America

To: Citizens of the United States

From: A Fellow Citizen

CC: Media and the Rest of the World

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Dear Citizens of America

Congrats on electing the first African American to the White House. That was quite the accomplishment apparently. You know lots of people didn't think that was a very good idea, but you managed to clear that hurdle. Quite impressive.

Well I have good news for you and it's been a long time coming. The media has released that since you all elected Barack Obama as president that racism is now over. I guess I should be extending you another congratulation, right! You are shattering all kinds of barriers. The African Americans in this country must be thrilled by this news. In fact, they have probably already started to notice the difference so no need to tell them. The media has officially dubbed this time as the "Post-Racial Era." Isn't that exciting?

I'm sorry that you didn't get the news sooner, but apparently they sent out the memo and none of us got it. Who knew that just because you elect a Black man to be the President of the United States that it then becomes the "cure-all" for hundreds of years of racism, stereotypes, and oppressions. Heck, we should have done this years ago. So when you get this memo please pass it along as soon as you can to those who have not gotten it so that they can stop the madness. I mean, since President-Elect Obama was elected there has been a reported spike in racial and hate crimes. I think the number soared to over 200 reported incidents. It's only been about 20 days. So this memo needs to get out as soon as possible.

Let's be sure to send it to:

* Staten Island where two white men beat a black teenager on the night Obama was elected. They hit him in the head with a baseball bat while yelling Obama

* Midland, Michigan where a man walk around dressed in Ku Klux Klan clothes and carrying a shotgun in protest of the Obama victory while people passing by their cars shouted accolades

* Rexburg, Idaho where 2nd and 3rd graders were on a bus shouting "Assassinate Obama!"

* The University of Texas where a football player posted on his Facebook page "All the hunters gather up we have a [slur] in the White House.

* Appalachain State University where the school paper suggesting that Obama may not be alive in 2009, shirts were printed that said Obama '08, Biden 09.

* North Carolina State University where a student spray painted "Kill that Nigger" and "Shoot Obama"

* Traverse City, Michigan where residents are flying the American flag upside down which they said means "is an international sign for distress because a nigger got in"

* Maine where black figures were hung by nooses from trees on the day Barack Obama was elected president.

* Pennsylvania where an interracial couple woke up to find a cross burning in the yard

* California where swastikas, racial slurs, and slogans were spraypainted saying "Go back to Africa"

And the list goes on, so be sure that this memo gets out. I guess these people didn't get the memo. There was a group of people who said that Obama's election was a conscious act of affirmative action by disconnected voters. They need to get the memo.

So I guess we can rest assured that for our country all our racial problems are over. There will be equality for all, and all the wrong is instantly undone. Once the news is out, America will be a utopia and we can work on sending the memo abroad to Italy's Burscoloni who made a racial remark calling Obama "tanned" and Al Queda who said that Obama, Colin Powell, and Condeleeza Rice were "house negroes. We can tell them that those things don't apply or register anymore.

Who knew it would be so easy...

Signed,

Your Fellow Citizen