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Dear Chaffey Committee of Republican Women:
I heard about the controversial newsletter Diane Fedele sent out in your Inland Empire community. Wow. It was pretty provocative, too. Kudos, y'all. A foodstamp with a picture of Obama and with BBQ ribs, too. I'm sure you thought your GOP ladies would get a kick out of that. But here's a wrench for your crazy: Sending out an Obama foodstamp decorated in fried chicken, ribs, Kool-Aid and watermelon is unacceptable. And if Diane's husband and daughter—who doen't believe it's racist—are any indication of her consciousness, then I'm sorry to say: she's making the entire Republican population look like a bunch of racist, ignorant creeps who wouldn't care if the economy sunk to the bottom of the ocean as long as a Black man isn't in charge.
And here's an eye-opener! A few of your Black Republican buddies isn't in the GOP game to march through the world chanting anti-Black epithets. They're actually in it for the right-wing value systems and whatever else a Republican needs. Well, at least the Black comrades who are on your mailing list aren't down for your shady cause.
And this if for Diane's half-Mexican daughter who said Diane couldn't be racist because she was once married to a Mexican: just because you were once married to a Mexican, or Korean, or Black American for that matter, doesn't exempt you from racism. It just means you were married to someone of color. And who's to say a person of color can't be self-hating and viciously discriminate against their own group. There are many immigrants who come to this country and absorb right-wing racist ideologies and then hate on Black, AND each other, because that's how they feel, or how they think the game is played and they're in the game to win.
And for the last time [and I don't want to have to say it again]: watermelon, fried chicken and ribs is a SOUTHERN, read me one more time, a SOUTHERN phenomena that migrated into every corner of our luscious country when Black Americans sought out better economic and/or social opportunity during the nation's growth. Believe it or not, millions of southern and/or Midwestern whites eat fried chicken or BBQ and watermelon, too. And oh my God! Many Black Americans DO NOT!
Here's some advice—if you were sincerely trying not to poke a hole in Obama and his "Blackness"—next time instead of fried Chicken and watermelon, you should find a stamp with Tacos and Rice and Beans. The Inland Empire's Latino community is much larger than its Black community. That way it's much clearer that your intentions are to poke holes in Obama's agenda [or whatever you claimed made you do this] as opposed to lashing out at his Blackness with stereotypes. Think about it.
Sincerely,
Your Faithful Obama Supporter
