TibKat's Insight's

So most recently I have been easily irritated. This could be due to the fact that I am in my seventh month of pregnancy or it could just plainly be that there are a lot of irritating people.

One of my biggest irritation strings from my family and there total “anti-liberal” views. It didn’t seem that long ago when we weren’t so against one another. In fact my mother and a few of my siblings claimed to be democrats for quite some time. Now what happens at family functions is a portion of them,(the anti-liberals) cluster together and bash President Obama. I believe truly that this wouldn’t go on like it does if he was a white Democratic President. It is sad, but true, there are a number of bigots in my family. Another irritation!

My problem is, I don’t speak out when I hear them. I don’t want to "stir the pot" as my mother would say and so I hold it in until I can get to someone who has a more equal view of the world and can share my opinion with them. What they currently are going on about is the caricature of Obama as The Joker and how they would like to get a bumper sticker of it, blah, blah, blah…

I don’t get it. We as a nation have come so far, with the whole “liberty and justice for all” when here in my own family I don’t believe a portion of them would object to separate bathrooms for “whites, blacks & gays”.

I understand if you don’t agree with our current democratic office that holds the majority. I didn’t fully agree with the last one that ran the nation but I certainly didn’t go around bashing President Bush and disrespecting the job that he was doing. I like most supported him through out his presidency. It wasn’t until close to the end that I felt his judgment was truly impaired. Even then, I still respected him as our nation’s president.

It truly is so hurtful the way I hear family members talk or “dis” others of a different race. I think of our “Barbie & Ken” friends who adopted a black baby and the ridicule they had received from total strangers. It is the words we use, regardless of the joking intent that hurt all. We claim to be one nation, how hard is it really to act as one?