Brandon Bowlin's note and conversation on Facebook after President Obama's speech

Okay. It’s a gimmie that if you were down with President Obama or even questioning his resolve, you’re pretty impressed with tonight’s speech. He said a lot but the issue has changed…right there…and I will write about that tomorrow. Right now I would like to present to you what sane people (dems, indys and repubs) are up against. It is part of the new way of attacking that has become the calling card of the Right. I’m sorry. It is long but reads fast.

A FB friend (I’ll call him DON) had posted that he was going to drop Friends who, after the speech, were posting Obama hate-speech on his WALL.

This is an exchange between two of his White FB friends (I’ll Call them SAM and BOB) and I.


SAM
Not a horrible idea. I should have done than when all the Bush-haters were cursing up a storm here, too.

BRANDON
Don't need to be a hater to dislike Bush...just a realist...

BOB
@Brandon, same as I feel with Obama. Hated Bush too though. I am naturally suspicious of "god is on my side" (Bush) and the "cult of personality" (Obama) in equal measure.

SAM
Although, I think part of the problem is that Dems construe "Nazi Socialist" as a four letter word, probably because they've called Bush a "Nazi Fascist" for so long. When I refer to Obama as a "Nazi Socialist," I (well, and most of my level-headed pals) mean it in the true sense of "Natioinal Socialism." It's state-run socialism. You either like ... Read Moreit--as some do, or you hate it--as I do...but I hate it because it is a form of G'ment where the government (ie., state) tries to run all facets of our lives.
Okay--fire away--call me nasty names now for having an opinion! :)

BOB
I know where you're coming from. I'm also of the "too much gov't is bad" camp. but I believe there are two paths to that. rep and dems both want to control people.

SAM
oh--I also did NOT like the fact that Bush GREW the government. and I totally agree with you, @DAP, I think there is little REAL difference between the dems and repubs in that they are both trying to control us THROUGH government. It's very scary either way you look at it.

BOB
Marry me? ;)

BOB
whoops, nm... I have a wife already... got confused for a sec

BRANDON
@SAM...you gotta luv when White folk discount history enough to call a Black man a Nazi...hmmm maybe we'll burn all the books that trace your complexion to the annihilation of millions of human beings...you know, since we're throwin' Nazi around all willy nilly-like.

BOB
Any group in charge is "nazi"

BRANDON
No sir. The Nazi's were a small core in the Nationalist movement after Germany had experienced a slight recession that rose, democratically, through the republic based on a platform of patriotism and what became the "living space" strategy. Once in power they marginalized huge numbers of the German population and began to exterminate them almost immediately in the East. First by firing squad, then by car exhaust and then by Zyklon B gas. They began WWII which ended in 71 million dead. That is a Nazi sir, and your cavalier use of it beckons me to illuminate once again White Men's (especially conservative) need to rewrite history in terms of their supposed innocuous effect on it. Nazi indeed.

SAM
@BB...LOL. Nazi isn't a skin color. Just because your skin is black doesn't mean you are ineligible to be a nazi...nor are you inelible to be a racist. My "people" fought against the nazis of Germany--but oh...YOU burned that book already.
I'd suggest you read a few history books if you really believe "The Nazi's (sic) were a small core... Read More"...Before the military takeover, the Nazis were a legitimate political party that grew FROM a small core to the largest political party in Germany during the depression. You are certainly correct in your accessment of their post power antics. Again, those were German Nazis. But Nazis come in all sorts of flavors...including black, mein freund.

BRANDON
@ SAM...No sir. The word Nazi is not a catch all. It is a Proper Noun. Connected to specific set of circumstances to a specific set of inhumanity. Government is a common noun. I know you wish for it to be a catch all. So that you can relate, say Health Care reform to the crimes of starting 2 wars where a million plus are dead...but the latter is... closer to the invasion of Poland than Health Care reform which means your beloved Bush and Nazi's are well...related. And the doctrine of Nazism IS ABSOLUTELY RACIALLY defined. I'm sorry your people never got that through to you. It is race specific especially since, well you ain't gonna find any race that has killed in the name of race like Nazi's. Notice I didn't write White Nazi's...don't have to. You don't get to "spread the vile" to all races and circumstances. If you wanna say it, White folk own that one. Go ahead and ask your people who bled against it how they feel when you call their social security system Nazism. I'll wait.

SAM
@Brandon...sorry, sir. I cannot continue a non-sensical attempt at conversation with a racist full of hate like yourself.
@Don, my friend, I offer my apologies for filling your wall full of ... mess.

BRANDON
@ SAM...don't worry. I already understood that any man who would argue for the cause of gentrifying "Nazi" is an intellectual coward. Just sharpening my teeth for real competition. And no, apologizing to Don neither softens your idiocy nor buttresses you hypocrisy including your racist subtext.

Don take note. There are folk who claim egalitarianism whose sense of entitlement can actually be a danger to you, your color or belief in fair play. Everyone has a right to speak their mind...just make sure civility stands. Genocide cannot be undone because someone if afraid of a Black President. Nor can it be slathered about and projected as the responsibility of those who would stand against wars of choice. Cowards need not apply...next?


EPILOGUE
I take it personally anytime White folk call Barack Obama Hitler. Or any of this Nazism. The Nazis inflicted world damage. They killed without repentance and nothing…NOTHING this man has done…equates them. No Honky, you can’t call Mr. Barack Obama a Nazi…not without a fight.
Thanx for readin'---peace.