Survival of the Lucky

Evolution (or Darwinism) is one of those beliefs that in debates and pub arguments is nearly always pitted against Creationalism and by virtue of that comes out smelling smugly of science. But like a boxing champion choosing his own challengers, or a politician refusing to answer questions unvetted by his aides, to me this rather contrived binary opposition seems like a rum deal, something promoted to hide the present crisis of credibility concerning the Theory of Evolution.

Darwin's Theory of Evolution laid out in his Origin of Species supposes that all the species on the planet evolved from simple single-cell life forms through a process of Natural Selection - which is kind of like The Weakest Link for ameoba - those that adapted, prospered and those that didn't, didn't. Anyway, according to Darwin all this happened over an extremely long time period, some four or five billion years.

Darwin said: "Natural selection acts only by taking advantage of slight successive variations; she can never take a great and sudden leap, but must advance by short and sure, though slow steps."

He also pointed out that, "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."

Later on in his life he admitted, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."

There are also lots of problems with Darwin's conception of unicellular life forms as being simple. Recent advances in molecular biology have shown that these lifeforms are incredibly complex, containing thousands of intricate parts each with a specific function. So in no way has there been a slow evolution from the unicellular towards increasing complexity and design improvement, they were already incredibly complex. It could be said there was an evolution of kinds towards bigger animals, though the dinasaurs put paid to the idea that bigger is better.

Regarding God, Darwin doesn't cite a first cause or explain how the first 'simple life' form came to be, so there's no reason for any major opposition between scientists and most religions, save various types of fundamentalism and Creationalism.

So why when Darwin's Theory of Evolution has been so long ago debunked sientifically is it so pervasive in our culture? Is it because we like the idea of things progressing naturally towards perfection? For in this sense Evolution has a lot in common with Gnosticism, Buddhism and Hinduism. It's a story of a race towards Nirvana with mother nature (aka Gaia) at the top of the pyramid. A very seductive dream.

Personally, I believe in survival of the fittest, but that what constitutes being the fittest can change in a split second. One minute humanity is lording it over the cockroach crushing them under our heels. The next - after a sudden and devastating thermonuclear attack - the cockroach is king.

Politically, what we're hoping for these days is the reverse of the above. We want the psychopathic cockroach elite that now call the shots in the West to perish and give way to an uprising of humanity.

Now that's what I would call Evolution.

Solutions # 55: Question everything, and that means EVERYTHING!

The rise and fall

MURTON'S TIMELINE:
1830: Population 69
1838: Work on pit starts
1843: First coals drawn
1851: Population 1,395
1889: Electricity first used in pit
1892: Murton toll gates removed
1902: Three putters killed in pit, two aged 14, one aged 18
1906: Colliery draws 4,131 tons of coal in one day
1910: Miners strike over Eight Hours Bill
1913: Foundation stone laid for first council house
1914: First public telephone for Murton, based in post office
1922: Cenotaph unveiled
1923: Coal drawn from West Pit for first time
1927: Bus service to Sunderland introduced by Northern buses
1930: First "talking pictures" at Murton Empire
1931: Flush toilets put in colliery houses
1935: Miners started carrying electric lamps
1939: Pit head baths opened
1950: X-ray van visited Murton for the first time
1953: The first paid annual holiday leave of two weeks was introduced
1957: A new library was opened in Barnes Road
1958: Murton Brickworks closed
1961: Murton's swimming pool was opened
1982: First memorial service held to commemorate fatalities at Murton pit
1990: Miners fought to keep the pit open
1991: Murton Colliery was closed
1994: Pit winding tower demolished, despite being listed


The hamlet Morton-in-the-Whins - later re-named Murton - had a population of 69 people. Coal mining came to town in 1838 and transformed the area. The population jumped into the thousands. Skilled workers came from all over the country - especially from Cornwall's declining tin mines - to work and settle there. It was very much a new town with a mix of people thrown together by a need for work, but it quickly formed a community with a strong identity. Anyway, there was expansion and modernisation all based on the mines and then 160 years later the rug was pulled from under their feet - the mines were closed - and they were left exposed. Murton's young people began to move away or faced long journeys into the city, or, alternatively, generational unemployment hanging about the village.

Here we see the much repeated pattern of small-time sustainability, expansion and then exposure (financial or labour collapse) and how ill-suited strong communities are in coping with it, or planning for or anticipating it. But what should they do: always be ready to up sticks and go to where the work is? What kind of community life is that?

You see the same pattern on an individual level with credit cards or somebody getting a good job and getting tied into loads of debt because they're momentarily 'wealthy'. And then it makes it all the worse when they lose their job and are immediately up against it.

A friend of mine worked for a green fuel company in Barcelona, which grew fat over the last five years because there were loads of EU grants for enviro-friendly companies. Last year, the EU suspended all the grants for a year and they - and many others - went to the wall. You see the grants had helped them expand too quickly to an unrealistic size. Of course the back story to this is that now - with the Copenhagen Agreement- the big oil and energy companies are ready to move in and swallow up the market and they don't want any small good-natured companies competing against them, thus the freeze on grants.

It's always the same pattern: the body builder takes steroids to take a short cut to being a high-def muscle man, but at the same time as the drugs make his biceps bulge, they make his heart grow big and weak. Vulnerable to the core.

Solutions # 53: Grow slowly.

The Kitler trap

I threw another log on the fire and picked up my book on Mao. A few minutes later the doorbell rang. It was Rafa from down the road holding Kitler in his arms.

I found her in front of the fire when I got up this morning. God knows how she got in.

Gracias, Rafa. Cafe?

No, thanks. Wife's sent me on a message

Rafa always insists on speaking English to me because he spends a fortune on classes. I battle back in Spanish and we have a bilinguil conversation, both of us speaking the language were least comfortable with. His wife, Sofia, is pregnant and he's always driving into the city to get things to satisfy her cravings.

Kitler, who hasn't really forgiven me for moving house yet, but who clearly loves living round here, is on a mission to get adopted by Rafa and Sofia. I pretend not to notice and never make a fuss or get angry with her. I don't want to get anything "out of my system" and, like Blair, let her manipulate me into liking her more.

We sat together by the fire for a few hours reading and drinking tea. At least I was. Kitler was mainly licking herself.

Staring at the flames and supping on tea, a strange idea came into my head. 'What if the dark ages aren't on their way at all, but we've been living them for some time already? In which case, maybe what's coming is the new enlightenment.'

I could suddenly see everything clearly: the Climate Change movement is an attempted reformation - to unify then nullify the major religions and bring us slowly towards Gaia, the Green Goddess. And it will take a new enlightenment - an explosion of knowledge, self-awareness and healthy skepticism - to rein it back in.

When I came back from my thoughts, Kitler was gone again. No doubt plodding her way back to Rafa and Sofia's...

'Oh well', I thought, 'I could put a lock on that catflap.'

Solutions # 50: Are you too domestic? A tame human living in a human farm? Living in cosy domestication and eating food from the domestic human supermarket? Your survival instincts will give you the discernment you need. Re-discover them.

Hit me Tony one more time

At the moment I'm reading two books: Mao - The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and John Halliday and Tony Benn's Dairies 2001-2007 for a bit of light relief. From what I've read so far, Mao was a born tyrant with little interest in Marxist ideology. He was on Moscow's payrole in his early twenties and back-stabbed his way to the top of the communist party sacrificing many soldiers and civilians on the way. Stalin recognised early on that Mao was a kindred spirit and rather than immediately awarding him power, watched him from afar as he murdered and connived his way to the top. Proving in the clearest terms that he, Stalin, had been right: Mao was the man to rule Communist China - accounting for the deaths of 38 million people.

The Benn Diaries log his gradual disallusionment with Tony Blair and New Labour, though he was loathe to criticise the cabinet directly as his son Hilary had been appointed a cabinet minister under Blair's Premiership. There's an interesting comment in his entry for Sunday 20 February, 2005:

At 8.30 I went off by car to do the ITV News on the general election. Lance Price was also on, he worked in the BBC and then as number two to Alistair Campbell at Number 10. He said that Blair wanted to be knocked about now, to show how human he was, and if people kicked him, they'd get it out of their system, which is the masochistic theory of electoral preparation.

Well, last week Blair's EU presidential campaign was seen to have been scuppered by Merkel and Sarkozy who, according to the newspapers, are worried that people can't forgive Blair for invading Iraq. A whole host of commentators poured scorn over Blair's chances, while at the same time admitting what an excellent politician he is.

First we have to remember that it won't matter what the people - the citizenry of the EU - think, as the first EU president won't be elected, but chosen by the EU Council. Secondly, they said they wouldn't be discussing the position until later in November. My instinct tells me that maybe we're being played here. Could this be a little bit of Blair catharsis before his presidential appointment is announced?

Does he wants us to hit him now and feel sorry for him later? Is that how it works?

Let's not get pulled into this. Let's retain our focus on the fact that it doesn't matter who the EU president is. For the EU is still an anti-democratic organisation that has obtained - through the Lisbon Treaty- a self-amending stranglehold on European democracies, much the same as Hitler did over Germany with his Enablement Act.

It could be Tony Blair or Tony Soprano. It just don't matter.

Solutions #49: Don't support a political party like you would a football team.

Fire

Woke up at 7.10 am. It was perishing cold. After a few minutes of agonising hesitation tring to squeeze some warmth out of the thin arrangement of blankets, I leapt up and put on my clothes as quickly as I could. Yesterday, we were still enjoying an Indian summer and overnight the temperature had dropped like a bomb. The wind was howling through the trees and buffeting the windows. Kitler was nowhere to be seen.

I lit the kitchen stove - which runs off a gas bottle - and put the coffee on to boil. Ten minutes later, I poured the coffee into a metal camping cup and went out into the garden looking for wood. There were some stacked logs right at the back of the garden. I felt a few drops of rain as I looked for logs the right size for the fireplace - I haven't got round to buying an axe yet. Standing for a moment to finish off my coffee, I could hear wild pigs grunting and snuffling around on the other side of the garden wall.

Sliding the empty coffee cup onto my little finger I managed to carry six resonably sized logs down to the house.

I leant two of the logs against each other on the firebox and then stuffed twigs and paper in the gap beneath them. At first I used recycled printer paper, twisting it up to make sticks, but it didn't burn well and created a lot of smoke which the wind rushing down the chimney forced out into the room. Newspaper burned much better and soon the twigs caught light, which burned long enough for the logs to take. Once the logs got going the room quickly warmed. I read in my Survivors Manual that if you get the fire roaring quickly enough the hot air pushes upwards through the chimney and stops blowback. Got to learn to do that otherwise I'll end up with smoke-damaged lungs.

Or I could just get an electric heater. But no, I'm going primitive.

Solutions # 48: Steer clear of the boar.

They hunt in packs

Animals to emulate #1

The wild boar (Sus scrofa)

Killer Quotes

Humans as disease

"We have grown in number to the point where our presence is perceptibly disabling the planet like a disease. As in human disease there are four possible outcomes: destruction of the invading disease organisms; chronic infection; destruction of the host; or symbiosis - a lasting relationship of mutual benefit to the host and the invader."
From James Lovelock, who is a fellow of the Royal Society and one of the world's leading environmentalists. He is also the originator of Gaia Theory.

Does Sustainable Development mean population reduction?

"The root of our problems with the environment comes from a lack of constraint on the growth of population. There is no single right number of people that we can have has a goal; the number varies with our way of life on the planet and the state of its health. It has varied naturally from a few million when we were hunters and gatherers to a fraction of a billion as simple farmers; but now it has grown to over six billion, which is wholly unsustainable in the present state of Gaia, even if we had the will and ability to cut back."
James Lovelock from his book The Revenge of Gaia

Strange nuances: human herd reduction, women's liberation and sterilisation

"Personally I think we would be wise to aim at a stabilized population of of about half to one billion, and then we'd be free to live in many different ways without harming Gaia. At first this may seem a difficult, unpalatable, even hopeless task, but events of the last century suggest that it might be easier than we think. Thus in prosperous societies, when women are given the chance to develop their potential they choose voluntarily to be less fecund."
James Lovelock from his book The Revenge of Gaia

Does this man have Gaia's ear?

"In the end, as always, Gaia will do the culling and eliminate those that breaks her rules. We have the choice to accept this fate or plan our own destiny within Gaia."
James Lovelock from his book The Revenge of Gaia


Euthanasia?

"The regulation of fecundity is part of population control, but the regulation of the death rate is also important. Here,too, people in affluent societies are choosing voluntarily seemly ways to die. Traditionally, hospitals have for the elderly been places for dying in comparative comfort and painlessness; the hospice movement has served to set standards and make this otherwise unmentionable role of the health systems acceptable. According to Hodkinson,in his book An Outline of Geriatrics, about 25% of the elderly entering hospitals die withing two months. Now that the Earth is imminent danger of a transition to a hot inhospitable state, it seems amoral to strive ostentatiously to extend our personal lifespan beyond its normal biological limit of about 100 years. "
James Lovelock from his book The Revenge of Gaia

Lishman's weekly news round up

It's official: Men really are the weaker sex.
(London Independent, December 7, 2008)

"Evolution is being distorted by pollution, which damages genitals and the ability to father offspring, says new study. Geoffrey Lean reports

The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals.

The research – to be detailed tomorrow in the most comprehensive report yet published – shows that a host of common chemicals is feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people."

Lishman says: Everything we touch turns to oestrogen. Also, the feminising effects of the 50 Hz electrical fields that we live surrounded by in Europe, leave no escape for the beleaguered male.
Read full article here




Scientists abandon global warming 'lie'
650 to dissent at U.N. climate change conference
(Global Research, December 13, 2008)

"WASHINGTON - A United Nations climate change conference in Poland is about to get a surprise from 650 leading scientists who scoff at doomsday reports of man-made global warming - labeling them variously a lie, a hoax and part of a new religion.

Later today, their voices will be heard in a U.S. Senate minority report quoting the scientists, many of whom are current and former members of the U.N.'s own Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

About 250 of the scientists quoted in the report have joined the dissenting scientists in the last year alone.

In fact, the total number of scientists represented in the report is 12 times the number of U.N. scientists who authored the official IPCC 2007 report."

Lishman says: Our leaders know that most people will eventually wake up to the Global Warming scam. This is why they are now urgently forging ahead with their plan to levy a world carbon tax on the individual.
Read full article here




Cyberspace has buried its head in a cesspit of climate change gibberish
(George Monbiot, London Guardian, December 9, 2008)

Lishman says: I didn't really like this article, but some of the comments below it were excellent and restored my faith in cyberspace. Here's a sample:

Prentendingtocare:
I question the climate change panic in much the same way as ive tried to question other scares that preceded it ...Aids, Bse, Sars, Bird flu , Terrorism etc ...No one is paying me anything to question these issues ..i do it because i like to think for myself ..as opposed to having people like you do my thinking for me...We get the message George ...loud and clear ..we just think its bullshit thats all ...theres no conspiracy to find ...just the majority of the British people disagreeing with you ...thats a healthy thing ...in a democracy..."

Lishman says: I just checked the rest of the comments below the article to find that some of the better responses to Monbiot's OpEd have been removed by the Moderator. Sadly the brilliant analysis by the poster Moveanymountain was also removed. For "Moderator" read "censor". Ironically the Guardian's section heading is called Comment is Free. Well done, Guardian! Showing your true colours again.
Read full article and comments here (bearing in mind that most of the dissenting voices will disappear in time)



Are the Greek riots a taste of things to come?
(London Independent, December 13, 2008)

"Bringing together youths in their early twenties struggling to survive amid mass youth unemployment and schoolchildren swotting for highly competitive university exams that may not ultimately help them in a treacherous jobs market, the events of the past week could be called the first credit-crunch riots. There have been smaller-scale sympathy attacks from Moscow to Copenhagen, and economists say countries with similarly high youth unemployment problems such as Spain and Italy should prepare for unrest."

Lishman says: The answer to the question is 'yes', this is a taste of things to come. And don't think our governments, police and army won't be ready for us when we do revolt. This is part of a long term plan to change the shape of society at a rapid pace. They will most likely provoke the riots and disorder themselves at a time they find most convenient.
Read full article here



Pound slips below euro on Britain's high streets
• £20 buys only €18 at UK exchange
• New rate 'key moment for economy'
(London Guardian, December 14, 2008)

"The government is facing a growing backlash over its rescue package for the economy after the pound slumped to below parity with the euro on British high streets and at airports for the first time since the single European currency was launched a decade ago.

Sterling's decline to a value of less than a euro, after commission charges, is seen by economists and opposition politicians as a pivotal 'psychological moment' - and evidence of declining faith in the British economy on global currency markets.

The case for euro entry was also put by leading economist and commentator Will Hutton. 'The pound buying less than a euro is an important psychological moment. Britain first doubted the euro would be launched, then whether it would survive, then whether it would ever become a serious currency,' said Hutton.

'Even today people are rushing to pronounce its death warrant. Now it is plainly the world's second currency after the dollar. As the pound becomes more volatile and less valuable, the euro will be seen increasingly as a safe haven - a zone in which both British industry and the City of London would flourish. The question is not if Britain will join, but when - and how many working lives and businesses will be wrecked by ideological opposition before it does.' "

Lishman says: The dollar and the pound are dying. The solution for Britain is further integration into the EU against the wishes of the majority of the people. The US will seek to fortify itself by joining Mexico and Canada in forming the North American Union. The NAU Constitution is due to be ratified in 2010. It will have its own currency. Can you see a pattern emerging?
Read full article here

Mount Ti Bi Da Bo

It was like this. I'm standing on the side of Tibidabo. Kitler is sitting at my feet like an obedient dog. So maybe it wasn't really Kitler. Anyway, at the top of Tibidabo is a church and on top of the church is a statue of Jesus with his arms spread out. "Ti bi da bo" (I will give it to you) is what the Devil said to Jesus when he took him to the top of the mountain in an attempt to corrupt him by offering him all of life's worldly pleasures. The Devil spoke Latin, you see. Apparently, in the case of Barcelona, the idea of having Jesus up there with his arms spread out in offering is to say, "I will give you Barcelona". So why then, you may ask, is Jesus gesturing on behalf of the Devil to offer us the worldly pleasures of Barcelona? I know not, but... back to the dream.

So me and Kitler are standing on the slopes of Tibidabo among a crowd of about five thousand people. Jesus is addressing us from his plinth only it's not Jesus now it's Al Gore. Everytime I try to concentrate on the face it morphs into someone else. It's Obama. Then Einstein. Then Orwell, Julius Ceaser, Jonathan Ross, James Lovelock, Hitler, Madonna, Germaine Greer.

I can hear someone writing: tap, tap, tap-tap-tap.

Now, the many-faced one is talking about original sin and the transgressions of Adam and Eve in the garden.

Tap-tap-tap...

I raise my hand.

"Yes, Lishman" says the speaker, bearing the weary expression of my fourth form English teacher. The crowd turns to look at me. Kitler tries to hide behind my legs. There is great expectation.

I cough to clear my throat and begin speaking, "Sir, what is wrong with trying to attain the apple of knowledge? Surely, Eve was merely trying to improve herself, sir?"

There is a restless murmuring across the hillside. The people look worried as the speaker takes on angry forms: Saddam Hussein, Mussolini, Queen Elizabeth I, before calming down into George Orwell, the Dalai Lama and then Gandhi.

"But Lishman is missing the point", explains the speaker,"that particular branch of knowledge wasn't hers to touch and in disobeying the orders of her creator, she sent out the wrong message to everyone. She had to be punished. You see, Lishman, all of you are God's creation and you need to follow his rules or ELSE...", the speaker pauses mid-sentence as if to reconsider what it is saying, "OR else, you are nothing but a host of maggots eating up our resources. No good to anyone." The speaker gestures to where the crowd is standing. Everyone, apart from myself and Kitler, immediately falls to their feet and takes the form of man-size larva greedily gorging themselves on the vegetation.

Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap, tap-tap...

"But I prefer the idea that you're God's flock. A goodly host of sheep following the teachings of the great shepherd." At this point he turns back into Jesus holding a staff, which he strikes on the ground. The maggots become people again, most of them fairly shocked to find themselves with mouthfuls of grass, others chew on happily. I look down and realize that Kitler has disappeared.


I raise my hand again.

"Has no one else got any questions?", asks the speaker somewhat irritated, "Ok, Lishman, go ahead."

"Don't shepherds ultimately lead their sheep to slaughter?" I ask.

Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap.

"When it's time, yes.", says the speaker, with the sincere tone of Richard Burton in 1984. "We like to fleece them a few times first. Then we kill off the old and sacrifice the tenderest of the lambs. And of course when the stock is bad, we slaughter all of you... er them. And re-breed the flock from the strongest gene pool... tap-tap, tap tap tap tap, tap-tap-tap"

All the speaker's words disappear and become the frantic tap-tapping of a thousand typewriters. The speaker, who is now in the form of Prince Charles, begins to flicker and fade. Suddenly I notice that it's Kitler who's causing the speaker to disappear. She's on the plinth chewing on a cable. It's just a hologram, you see, and Kitler is attacking its power source.

Now I'm running up the hill to stop Kitler from being electrocuted, but before I can reach the top everything starts to shake from side to side. There's an earthquake. The mountain splits open and swallows the church. A few seconds later, the shaking stops. I look around, but there's no sign of Kitler. I walk up to the top and peer into the crater. Inside, there's no sign of the fallen church, instead there is row after row of writers sitting at their desks frantically typing.

"Hey, we can see you now. The games up." I shout down into the hole. Some of them look up. Others continue typing.

"Hey, it's over. We know you're making everything up." I shout. The ones that can hear me start alerting the others and before long they're all looking up at me peering over the edge of the crater.

"Yeah, that's right. Time to pack up your writing machines and go home. We see right through your lies." I scream.

Then I hear the mournful squeal of Kitler from nearby.

And I wake up, because Kitler is pawing my face.

Lauren sips on her tea, pondering something.

"Biscuit?" I say.

"Yes. The chocolate one." she replies.

"So you realise that in your dream..." says Lauren, pausing to sip more tea.

"Yes?" I say.

"Kitler is Toto."

"Yes, I suppose she is."

Well, we're certainly not in Kansas any more.

Solutions # 41: While they keep you focused on the present. They're changing your history and stealing your future. Dump the 15-minute culture. Read widely.

Where or when the truth lies...

...I know not.

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The new president elect is Barack Obama, whose real name is Barry Soetoro. Why did he change his name? What will happen on December 15 when Barack/Barry's eligibility to be president comes under judicial scrutiny? Was he born in Hawaii or Kenya?

For the time being, we have worldwide euphoria, but the alarm clock has been set by Biden and Powel. The Nostradami of our times. If we are to believe them, the masses will awake - yet still without consciousness - to a great event. A major challenge for the newly anointed president. January 21 and 22 loom portentously. But here I urge caution, for prophets are best judged by their fruits. So I will wait before passing judgement.

The Rand Corporation, an extremely influential US think tank, proposes war with China, Russia, Iran or Japan to ward off the depression. The Chinese press abound with rumours of war. The English-speaking press scarcely mention it.

French troops (or are they EU troops?) maintain a presence in Chad.

EU troops (did you know the EU had troops?) prepare to enter the Congo.

Nearby Sudan, where the Chinese protect their oil interests, is unintentionally encircled.

Could this be the new president's "major challenge", a war with China?

Well, I'm sure Obama can be war-like if that's what is needed. His pre-electoral rhetoric included talk of attacking Pakistan in the hunt for terrorists. He's also surrounded himself with suitably bellicose people such as his own VP Joe Biden, who supported the Neo-Con war in Iraq.

Another is Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is Obama's chief foreign policy advisor. As President Carter's national security advisor in 1979, Brzezinski recruited Osama Bin Laden to lead an army into a war with Russia. This army, known as the Mujahadeen, was funded by the Saudis and armed by CIA via the Pakistani ISI. The Mujahadeen was the genesis of the modern day Al Qaeda. It was created by Western intelligence operations. Al Qaeda literally means - as Robin Cook noted in his newspaper column a few weeks before his death - "'the database',... originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians".

But there's no guilt by association. The political world is just a hurtling rock of coincidence. It spins and spins and spins.

Solutions # : To avoid Racism, treat Barack Obama as you would any other politician.