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Has obama brought the races together[W:225]

has obama brought races together

  • no. obama made race relations worse

    Votes: 39 67.2%
  • yes, obama has united races as never before

    Votes: 2 3.4%
  • obama has had no effect on race relations

    Votes: 17 29.3%

  • Total voters
    58
Re: Has obama brought the races together

I know what I think. I have no idea what you think I think.:peace

you have a very good idea, quit pretending ... it's what you've indicated in your previous posts on the subject ... that we're living in a post-racial America ...
 
Re: Has obama brought the races together

He jumped in and played the poor oppressed black man at every opportunity. You say it was only a few times, so what. The reality is those were huge race relation events that he morphed into Jesses Jackson for.

pathetic as always ... on the other hand, I'd rather have you on these threads posting bigoted nonsense than on the streets harassing people as they walk by ... have a good night, please don't go out ...
 
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you have a very good idea, quit pretending ... it's what you've indicated in your previous posts on the subject ... that we're living in a post-racial America ...

Post racial? No. In fact, it's turned around and now the blacks are much more racist than the whites.
 
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Please don't be condescending.

Here is the point. ... You seem to think that if YOU do not see the racial component then it does not exist. When then is pointing out the racial component in an issue become legitimate? Who makes that decision?

Just being light-hearted. :)

Because there's such a thing as hate crimes on the books, a jury of your peers would make that judgement in a court of law. Otherwise it's not all that relevant to legal discussion.

First thing we need to do is know that it's not a them against us issue. All people are generally good and the ones with malice in their hearts are not hard to pick off.
 
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Bringing it up in this thread is far right bull****. It has nothing to with whether Obama has brought the races together. It's another attempt to make Obama look bad using something that he had nothing to do with personally. It's a cheap trick.

You're the one who asked for evidence . . .
 
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Using the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s March and “I Have a Dream,” Tavis Smiley urges Obama to stop playing it safe, to offer sound policies rather than sound bytes, and to be “King-like, not King-lite.”

For Smiley it’s all about the pain and suffering of African-Americans, and how I wish William Raspberry were alive to respond to him.

Here’s what Smiley says:

But if Obama is to be transformational and not just transactional, a statesman and not just another politician, a thermostat and not just a thermometer, then it’s time for him to use his power to help regulate the temperature of our society and not just settle for recording the temperature of public opinion. It’s time to take some risks. To stop playing it safe in the second term. To tell the truth about the suffering in America that’s being rendered invisible simply because we choose not to see it. Obama needs to be King-like, not King-lite - The Washington Post

Here’s what Raspberry said in 2005:

For black America, Obama may be the harbinger of a different transformation: the movement away from what might be called the civil rights paradigm. Since the astounding success of the civil rights movement nearly half a century ago, America's black leadership has been a civil rights leadership, focused almost exclusively on grievance -- America owes us the right to vote, to enjoy places of public accommodation, to attend nonsegregated schools, to be free of the laws that underlie American-style apartheid.

… The point is not to deny that America's black communities still suffer horribly from poor education, dim employment prospects and other crippling (and heritable) ills but to observe that these problems no longer lend themselves to civil rights -- or grievance-based -- solutions.

William Raspberry - A Path Beyond Grievance
 
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you have a very good idea, quit pretending ... it's what you've indicated in your previous posts on the subject ... that we're living in a post-racial America ...

I don't believe I've ever used the term "post-racial America." Racism certainly exists, but it has been separated from its former social and institutional supports. It's a bit like cigarette smoking, no longer broadly acceptable, and increasingly confined to isolated, marginalized environments. It's now an individual failing. That's what makes "white privilege" such a silly term.:peace
 
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has obama brought races together

Human and which others had you in mind?
 
Re: Has obama brought the races together

1.)What you TOLD me to post about? LMFAO Relax little fella, this is just computer stuff, why get so worked up about what I say or don't say in here. Don't like my thread, start your own.:)

1.) yep you read good
2.) totally relaxed actually im laughing at your previously failed post and your dishonesty, after regular talk my second favorite thing is dishonest posts like yours, they entertain us all
3.) never got worked up once you just showed hoe little you know lol
4.) got no problem with it, after i was told you did it and posted a lie i just came to see for myself and pointed out that it was factual lie. Facts defeat you again. Good luck.

Let me know when you do the poll so i can be further entertained by your fail.
 
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So, your claim would be that all ten links in my #151 were malarkey? Really?:roll:




I didn't sift through them yet, I'll try to check them out later since you posted them, But I still say that President Obama isn't the only person in the USA who should be trying to bring the races together. That responsibility falls on a lot of people of people on both sides of the aisle.
 
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I didn't sift through them yet, I'll try to check them out later since you posted them, But I still say that President Obama isn't the only person in the USA who should be trying to bring the races together. That responsibility falls on a lot of people of people on both sides of the aisle.

I never said anything to the contrary. The OP, however, was about BHO.:peace
 
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Just being light-hearted. :)

Because there's such a thing as hate crimes on the books, a jury of your peers would make that judgement in a court of law. Otherwise it's not all that relevant to legal discussion.

First thing we need to do is know that it's not a them against us issue. All people are generally good and the ones with malice in their hearts are not hard to pick off.

Ok, my bad then. It gets a little rough around here, as I am sure you know.

Okay, but when you talk about racism not being an issue until someone makes it so,....what if there is a disagreement. You say it is obvious but the racism in the GZ appears "obvious" to some from the beginning and "missing" to others. Are you suggesting we wait until it is blatant?
 
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Ok, my bad then. It gets a little rough around here, as I am sure you know.

Okay, but when you talk about racism not being an issue until someone makes it so,....what if there is a disagreement. You say it is obvious but the racism in the GZ appears "obvious" to some from the beginning and "missing" to others. Are you suggesting we wait until it is blatant?

Speaking of BHO and racism . . .

Obama Was Wrong on the Trayvon Case - Kathleen Parker, Washington Post:peace
 
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1.) yep you read good
2.) totally relaxed actually im laughing at your previously failed post and your dishonesty, after regular talk my second favorite thing is dishonest posts like yours, they entertain us all
3.) never got worked up once you just showed hoe little you know lol
4.) got no problem with it, after i was told you did it and posted a lie i just came to see for myself and pointed out that it was factual lie. Facts defeat you again. Good luck.

Let me know when you do the poll so i can be further entertained by your fail.

I'm not sure what your problem is, if you want to see a certain poll post it yourself. If you don't know how I will be happy to walk you through it. If you are just to intimidated by the process I will even post it for you just tell me exactly how you want it worded and what you want the answerers to be, I am at your service. No need to thank me it's just the kinda guy I am.:)
 
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I don't think its fair to accuse Obama of giving Martin/Zimmerman its racial overtones, that was there straight from the start and its left-wing punditry we have to thank for that.

Don't you think the President should have looked at the case to see race wasn't an issue before he made comments to the fact that race was an issue?
 
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No, Obama has not brought the races together. But neither has he pursued any kind of racially divisive policy. I think he's made like two or three comments over the course of being constantly in the public eye for six years that were unintentionally divisive, but they pale in comparison to those of anti-Obama commentators here and elsewhere.

So if race relations are worse than they were six years ago, I think it's primarily because it serves the interests of critics, not because Obama has been promoting any kind of divisive agenda.

I take issue with the word unintentionally.
 
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Don't you think the President should have looked at the case to see race wasn't an issue before he made comments to the fact that race was an issue?

To quote Kathleen Parker:

Barack Obama helped lead the way when he identified himself with the parents of Trayvon Martin, shot by George Zimmerman in the neighborhood-watch catastrophe with which all are familiar. Stepping out from his usual duties of drawing meaningless red lines in the Syrian sand, the president splashed red paint across the American landscape:
“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”
In so saying, he essentially gave permission for all to identify themselves by race with the victim or the accused. How sad, as we approach the 50th anniversary of the march Martin Luther King Jr. led on Washington, that even the president resorts to judging not by the content of one’s character but by the color of his skin — the antithesis of the great dream King articulated. :peace
 
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Ok, my bad then. It gets a little rough around here, as I am sure you know.

Okay, but when you talk about racism not being an issue until someone makes it so,....what if there is a disagreement. You say it is obvious but the racism in the GZ appears "obvious" to some from the beginning and "missing" to others. Are you suggesting we wait until it is blatant?

That is a really bad example.

The NBC affiliate that doctored the 9-11 tape and all of the media making Trayvon look like a young child pretty much set the whole 'racial' facet into motion. Remember it was months afterwards that outside parties started getting involved. (waiting for the public outcry) It was a race bait set-up in my opinion and our President, the Justice department and the Justice Brother (Al and Jessie) stoked the fire.

Even during the trial, nothing was about race, It wasn't a factor and it couldn't be proven Zim was a racist anyhow. Quite the opposite.

Let me be perfectly clear, there ARE cases of obvious racism but, in the context of a serious crime being committed, we already have laws that serve justice. The emotional baggage that race brings into the fray is unnecessary and with the case of Rodney King [for example] can turn an ordinary case of police brutality into a giant collapse of society.

Do you follow me?
 
Re: Has obama brought the races together

Has Obama brought the races together?

That reminds me ... I've been wondering why DP doesn't have a political humor thread.
Wait ... I'm sorry ... was this thread supposed to be one?
 
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That reminds me ... I've been wondering why DP doesn't have a political humor thread.
Wait ... I'm sorry ... was this thread supposed to be one?

If it wasn't, then I need clarification ... where does using race for self-promotion fit in to the analysis?
Like ... if people of all races eventually grow weary of the act, you can make a case that he has brought them together ... at least on that.
 
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That reminds me ... I've been wondering why DP doesn't have a political humor thread.
Wait ... I'm sorry ... was this thread supposed to be one?
I don't believe that's my quote?
 
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