Europe: Where Are Your Black Leaders?

The Euro-racists reveal themselves. They cheer Mr. Obama's victory, but also make snide comments about his race.

Europeans are fun-loving people and are great to have as friends. They are also colossal hypocrites. These enlightened "social democrats" routinely trade work with one another and barter under the table to dodge the confiscatory tax rates.

Egalitarianism is crushed by a rigid class system. Upward mobility is almost non-existent. If you were born a plumber's son chances are you'll die a plumber. And Europeans are tribal: Not only do they sneer at people from other countries, they don't think too much of those from the next town over, either.

They loudly criticize CIA "black sites" while quietly hosting them. They rend their garments and shake accusing fingers at us over Guantanamo, but then refuse to take back their citizens and residents we have locked up there. They love looking down their noses condescendingly at us while lounging under our security umbrella.

I had African friends when I lived in Europe, and they all had first-hand accounts of Euro-racism. It sometimes manifests itself in low-brow acts such as football fans throwing bananas at their star players. More often it is the quiet, tacit kind that only works when everybody is silently in on it, sub-rosa, so nobody actually has to say anything incriminating out loud.

Yes, a German or a Brit will share a beer with a darker-skinned fellow human being while lounging at table on the old continent's cobblestone streets. But it goes no deeper than that. True societal integration has not happened there to the degree it has in the US. European minorities are much more segregated, physically and socially, than in this country.

I did not vote for President-elect Obama, but the comments by these effete, inbred Euroweenies, while not surprising, are upsetting. They have no business trashing my president. Yes, they're cheering on the outside, but they're jeering, hypocritical racists on the inside.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/16/europe/germany.php