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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

Racism is kept alive by those dependent on it for a living...

That's an odd view, and also incorrect. Money always comes into play in the US but we have a lot of people beating much deader horses than overt racism, and laughing all the way to the bank.
 
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That's an odd view, and also incorrect. Money always comes into play in the US but we have a lot of people beating much deader horses than overt racism, and laughing all the way to the bank.

I'm only responding to what you post. If you wish to move beyond the issue, I'll be glad to oblige, and we can move to any other issue you might choose...
 
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Racism is a bit like porno, you know it when you see it. Racism is also like violence, it's not going away. All you can do is deal with it honestly, something we don't do in this country.

No, apparently, you only see what you want to see and ignore what you don't. Racism isn't going to go away because there are a lot of people on the left who make their living off of it and the second anyone points that out, they get accused of being racist. Go figure.
 
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No, apparently, you only see what you want to see and ignore what you don't. Racism isn't going to go away because there are a lot of people on the left who make their living off of it and the second anyone points that out, they get accused of being racist. Go figure.
Show us these "lot of people"?
 
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Good evening, AP.:2wave:
I can't stay long; I'm going out to reduce the lobster population tonight. Just thought I'd warn you that even the "evidence" can't be trusted.
The Kids Behind the Cruel Oberlin Race Hoax - Chuck Ross,
Daily Caller




The Daily Caller is not a credible source. What you link to here is exactly the kind of bull**** that I have learned to expect from the right.
 
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Re: Has obama brought the races together

Show us these "lot of people"?

Start with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton as the two most successful race-baiters.
 
Re: Has obama brought the races together

Yes, and most of it is fomented not by the right but the left. I won't deny that there are assholes on both sides, but there is only one that needs it to continue its existence...




If you have any reliable proof of what you say, let's see it.

Otherwise, I will just ignore your egregious lies.
 
Re: Has obama brought the races together

If you have any reliable proof of what you say, let's see it.

Otherwise, I will just ignore your egregious lies.

If I cared about your desires, I probably wouldn't be posting...
 
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Attacking Conservative will do nothing to make your case. What Obama has done is not presidential and has created a larger racial divide in this country.

I personally see it in the eyes and hear it in the words of Black Americans everywhere I go. Things have definitely changed for the worse.

Are they getting uppity?
 
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Those words from Bush you wrote had nothing to do with race...nothing. He never mentioned the race or color of those involved AT ALL!

Racism is born, bred, manifested and metastasized in the mind of a Leftist and has been a tenet of Communism for more than 100 years.

The former FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, said of the Communist goals:

"Communists seek to advance the cause of communism by injecting themselves into racial situations and in exploiting them, (1) to intensify the frictions between Negroes and Whites to 'prove' that discrimination against the minorities is an inherent defect of the capitalistic system, (2) to foster domestic disunity by dividing Negroes and Whites into antagonistic, warring factions, (3) to undermine and destroy established authority, (4) to incite racial strife and riotous activity, and (6) to portray the Communist movement as the 'champion' of social protest and the only force capable of ameliorating the conditions of the Negro and the oppressed."

You and that DHS employee can now go into complete denial. 8)

Hoover was a paranoid, dishonest, despotic, corrupt, hypocrite who tried to black mail and extort presidents, and other political and civil rights figures including Martin Luther King Jr. He ruined many innocent lives and caused a lot of harm by using the FBI as his personal secret political police. He also busted some crimnals along the way. He is not a good source of wisdom on race relations. Neither are George Wallace or Lester Maddox.
 
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Okay, we can disagree. But answer this please. What are we to do? Wait until the right agrees that something is racial before speaking up. If we did that there would still be separate bathrooms and water fountains.

Separate, but ¨equal.¨






(irony alert)
 
Re: Has obama brought the races together

In a country where people still hate and fear blacks, especially black men, how exactly was he supposed to bring us together? Even before he was elected the overt racists here were screaming for his head. What he eventually has to do, in high profile race cases, is make some sort of statement. That's not inserting himself, and I'm quite sure that's the last thing he wants to have to do.

We are still a racist country. Obama can't fix that and frankly, that's not his job either.

When Obama first ran for pres all I heard from the left is how electing a black as pres would do great things for race relations in this country and at the time I agreed but Obama has acted just like a Sharpton or a Jackson at every opportunity and he has done nothing but make things worse. He could have risen above it, not taken the bait and not played the poor oppressed black man at every opportunity.
 
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Although I think Obama would have hoped to bring the races together more, he's faced some unique complications in that regard. As the first black President of the United States, he's had to be careful NOT to be seen as "the BLACK President" as opposed to the President of all of America. Secondly, there have been those in his political opposition who understand that challenge and use it against him by consistently not only highlighting his race but doing so in way to amplify and magnify racial animosity. For example, today of the Drudge Report there are two headlines that in my opinion were worded to maximize racial divisiveness and animosity. The first is the headline linking to the tragedy involving the WWII Vet who was senselessly murdered. The Drudge Report was careful to include the race of the suspect in the headline. The second was about the senseless murder of the college baseball player in Oklahoma that read something to the effect that interracial violent crime was overwhelmingly blacks victimizing whites featuring the mugshots of the two black teens arrested in the case but omitting the white teen. I recall the after school bus fight involving two kids of different races where not only the Drudge Report but several high profile conservative leaning media outlets gave the story significant coverage, made it look like blacks were on a mission to harm whites and then linked in the election of President Obama. I think of Shirley Sherrod, who's testimony of faith and forgives was edited to make it look like the Obama administration discriminates against white farmers. Many of these media outlets practically celebrate urban violence especially if it occurs in Chicago as well as losing the US Olympic host award. Its a disturbing state of affairs in but President Obama faces some unfortunately challenges in trying to bring about greater racial harmony, much of which is coming from the political group that at one time was known for its commitment to the Juedo-Christian ethic and family values.

More excuse making for poor little Obama. No wonder he couldn't do it, nobody could really.:roll:
 
Re: Has obama brought the races together

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.

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.
 
Re: Has obama brought the races together

May I ask you a question Sawyer? Your OP indirectly acknowledges that there was a racial division in this county before Obama took office. So that's awesome. I was curious why you thought it existed to begin with. Sincere question.

Geeez open, what do you think I am the wise old hermit in the cave at the top of the mountain? :lol: Really though as long as there has been races there has been racism and it will unfortunately always be with us to one degree or another unless we purposely mix it up with each other so much that you can't tell what race anyone is. On second thought that won't work because there is even racism among blacks on fair skinned blacks, there is no hope.
 
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why do you post lies, that is NOT what i said at all and why is your poll private? VERY telling.
I didnt just come out and say obama united the races, nice try but a failure,
im glad somebody told me this lie was here.
ALso why didnt you post what YOU Said and i told you to post about??? ALso very telling
no need to make stuff up just cause that thread was a total failure and the posters mocked your OP

why dont you make a post/poll about you said, you said that ANY black man could have run in 08 and they would have run simply because they were black.
weird you left this out and tried to spin your thread/post in a very dishonest direction but failed.

the context of my REAL comment, somebody wrote this: (they are probably banned now for the many ignorant things they said)


I replied with this bit of truth


notice how i said its how he won the election and i said close and equal, made ZERO comments about just bringing races together in general, fail
I said this because Obama got 43% of the white voter turn out, a percentage not surpassed in 28 years

then you said this awesome statement that nobody backed up



next time be honest, facts defeat you again

nobody supported this because they are educated to know flava flav never wins the presidency and if you need better examples than that they also know AL sharpton, Jessie Jackson, Allen west and Herman cain would have got their clocks cleaned if they ran. would have lost in landslides.

Ill be looking forward to the actual poll

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.:)
 
Re: Has obama brought the races together

What I think is that President Obama is not the only person in the USA when it comes to improving race relations.

What has the GOP done to improve race relations? How many Blacks and non-white Hispanics voted for Mitt Romney last November? Think about it. The GOP has a problem which will only get worse as massive demographic change hits it a little harder in the future.

I am not wishing the GOP any hard luck here, but it is a simple fact of life that if the GOP doesn't change a lot and soon by no later than the middle of this century it will be reduced to a minor, regional, party.

If you don't think so, just wait and see.

No one can stop time and/or change.




"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.

The question was about Obama. It was a simple yes or no question really, why are you deflecting?
 
Re: Has obama brought the races together

It sounds awfully desperate when people compare Obama to Al Sharpton.

You might as well compare Mitt Romney to Fred Phelps.
Or Hillary Clinton to Harry Reid.... of course, Hill's more manly than Harry, but I suspect most people already know that.
 
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Obama make everything worse!

You're right, he did, by being black and causing the racist reaction he got when he ran and when he won. Get a life why don't you?

As to the bigots who will likely or have already posted their racist crap on this thread, August 28 will be the 50th year anniversary of the March on Washington ... Why not wait until then to post your hate? Just a suggestion ...
 
Re: Has obama brought the races together

You're right, he did, by being black and causing the racist reaction he got when he ran and when he won. Get a life why don't you?

As to the bigots who will likely or have already posted their racist crap on this thread, August 28 will be the 50th year anniversary of the March on Washington ... Why not wait until then to post your hate? Just a suggestion ...

I don't like Obama or his policies, thus I am a racist.
 
Re: Has obama brought the races together

We are still a racist country. Obama can't fix that and frankly, that's not his job either.

NOW you tell us.
 
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The question was about Obama. It was a simple yes or no question really, why are you deflecting?

this wasn't a question -- how about showing a little courage and revealing the real intent of your post? Actually, don't bother. It couldn't be more transparent. Courage log, courage. Do you know what that is? 50 years ago on August 28 courage was on full display in D.C. ... why not be inspired by love instead of by hate for a change?
 
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this wasn't a question -- how about showing a little courage and revealing the real intent of your post? Actually, don't bother. It couldn't be more transparent. Courage log, courage. Do you know what that is? 50 years ago on August 28 courage was on full display in D.C. ... why not be inspired by love instead of by hate for a change?

The OP was a simple yes or no question, if you read more into it you need even more time on the couch.
 
Re: Has obama brought the races together

The Daily Caller is not a credible source. What you link to here is exactly the kind of bull**** that I have learned to expect from the right.

And yet the story is true . . .

Denial always ends badly.
 
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