President Obama - Afro-American or Euro-American?

First Congressman Wilson of South Carolina called President Obama a liar regarding medical assistance for illegal aliens. The truth is, the congressman is correct. What hospital emergency room is going to kick someone out of the ER if they are dying? No one is going to be asking for citizenship papers, although they will be looking and hoping for health insurance card. If the person is without, they will still get treated and we will foot the bill, just as we do now.

The remark was inappropriate and the congressman apologised.

Suddenly, the congressman being from South Carolina, we are hearing the remark may be racist. After all, President Obama is the first Afro-American president.

Is that true? What denotes an Afro-American? President Obama is also an Euro-American. So, we can say he is just another in a long line of Euro-American presidents. Or we can do the sensible thing. Drop the Afro and the Euro and say President Obama is an American president.

It is had too believe that after all of these centuries we are still so grounded in our past,that rather than wanting to move into the future we continue with the fears and hatreds of the past. Racism is alive only because there are those who are afraid of something different than themselves. Rather than embracing our differences and turning America into a true unified melting pot, all we want to do is harp on our differences.

Let's strive to create a national identity not based on race, religion or ethnic background but rather based on a common desire to create a land of peace, opportunity and justice for all.

Idealistic, yes, but isn't that the goal our fore fathers had for this land, and isn't that the goal we should continue to strive for?

Let's judge one another by our words, deeds and hearts, not by how we look and pray.

Its Common Sense!