Joe Wilson Hates Black People

These two articles banter back and forth about race and how important it is that no body allow their racist feelings to find its way into their speech. The articles use pretty much the exact same quotes and information to say relatively the same thing, politics, already disastrously slow and muddied is being dragged down to even slower murkier depths by the fact that now the president is black. People are having a field day relating everything they can to being race related now that there is racial diversity among America's long roster of presidents. The health care issue and Obama's lack of delivery on his promises of change and improvement are being blamed on his being of color rather than his inadequacies as a politician, and anyone who points out any of these faults is branded as a racist and an awful closed minded person. Personally I think that this great country wont go anywhere towards the necessary advancement needed to get America out of this economical slump. Obama chose a terrible time to become America's first black president, the pressure is on for him to remedy this situation, and either lead the populace to a bright future of racial harmony, or he'll fail and everyone will blame his blackness as a huge factor in his failures as a president and racism will be on the rise once again. The media won't help the situation in the slightest by pointing out every criticism as a racist remark and anyone delivering them as a bigot.

Polygamy

A.G. Mojtabai's essay, entitled Polygamy, is essentially a documentation of a first meeting and the prejudices brought to this meeting by an individual who didn't understand someone else's customs. Mojtabai felt uncomfortable and disturbed by the fact that she had two mother's in law, which I would figure hardly too difficult of a fact to accept. It seems to me that a marriage would be happier with all the women involved aware of each others presence and even having a say in who the others would be. Her suggestion that mut'a is a superior form of polygamy surprised me. Seems even less legitimate and more likely to cause unhappiness in such relationships. Polygamy only becomes a problem when an individual involved somehow causes enough of a fuss to make problems out of the excess of people. A multiple person marriage would allow extra levels of intimacy between multiple involved parties, much less of a need be secretive.