The Benefits of “White Supremacy & Racism”

Mr. President August 12, 2003
I have written to you on two (2) previous occasions regarding why you and your administration should have the right to send my son or any soldier in harm’s way under present conditions and circumstances. In your news conference of July 30, 2003, you refused, failed or were unable to explain how you decided to go to war in Iraq with the faulty intelligence at hand, and furthermore have not explained why any of us should believe that your decision to invade Iraq was nothing more than a naked grab of that nation’s oil resources.
Furthermore, you tell the nation that affirmative action is not beneficial and should be opposed, particularly in higher education. You stated this as the reason for opposing the admissions program at the University of Michigan and the University Of Michigan School Of Law. Yet you don’t seem to have a problem with affirmative action when it results in African Americans and Latinos being disproportionately placed in harms way in support of your adventure in Iraq.
Our domestic policy in the wake of the tragic events of September 11, 2001 has introduced more terror into the lives of many simply because they worship a different god or because they are from a less favored part of the world. Civil rights are being assaulted and liberties diminished in the name of “anti-terror”. I remember, not so very long ago, when George Herbert Walker Bush called the economic policies you now espouse “voodoo economics.” Our foreign policy is simply a mirror of our domestic policy. We have advanced policies that punish the innocent and prop up the guilty in ways that reduce our claims “in support of democracy” the rantings of a hypocrite. We cannot continue to play the role of the emperor who has no clothes. The whole world is watching and we should be ashamed.
My son is not much different than your daughters. He wishes to live in a country that is admired and respected by all, not just a few governmental insiders who relish our role as global bully, determining, unilaterally, who is out of line and subject to our discipline. We daily do more to recruit for Ben Laden and his ilk than they could ever do for themselves. Now you want to send my child and those of tens of thousands of others into the morass you have created. So many of them will become nothing more than fodder for the continued advance of the hegemony of corporate cronies and consummate insiders. This should not continue. “This cannot stand!” Please exempt my son from this travesty of blood on our hands and our souls.