We are ALL RACIST to a degree. People most of the time will stick to someone their own color put in a stranger meet straneger situation in a room. During deployments to Iraq or in the field I noticed that whites would start forming little groups and blacks also, latinos and other groups we were up for grabs pretty much. In Korea it was not much different "americans" or "round eyes" were not allowed in their night clubs. Try to go to Chinatown either in New York or Chicago and try to marry some chinese guy's daugther or go and try to mingle with Jewish people or blacks from down south. It's everywhere I can keep going on with more examples. Obama's problem is that like all typical dark skinned people he decided to stick with the "african american" group and he catters a lot to them, if you ask a lot of them they will probably tell you I am with him because he's a "brother" and the other guy's a "cracker". So don't take it upon yourself and feel compelled to be a benevolent white person that's not racist because you vote for him and you feel a lot more white people need to do the same so we can elect him and prove to Germany that we are not a racist country.
Obama Has a Race Problem?
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Please speak for yourself.
I am not...period.
How do I know this?
Because I KNOW there is only ONE race...the human race.
I AM all races. We ALL are.
WE ARE ALL ONE RACE.
True human race with distintive physical abilities and diffences, cultures, languages, ethnic groups, political and religious beliefs...yeah go ahead and hold hands the world is a big get together were we all get along and sip cocoa with marshmallows. Obama not only has a race problem but a sexist one also because of his actions.. letting the media labeled him as "first african american" nominee and not choosing Hillary over Biden...
You told me that I (and everyone) was racist to some degree.
I told you that you're wrong and to not speak for me.
Where did I say anything about Obama?
No the historical record on it says exactly the opposite of what you are claiming.LBJ was entirely commited to the civil rights act even more so then JFK who had introduced it.LBJ used his considerable political skills to get it passed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
"It was at this point that President Kennedy was assassinated. The new president, Lyndon Johnson, utilized his experience in legislative politics and the bully pulpit he wielded as president in support of the bill.
Because of Smith's stalling of the bill in the Rules Committee, Celler filed a petition to discharge the bill from the Committee. Only if a majority of members signed the discharge petition would the bill move directly to the House floor without consideration by advocates. Initially Johnson had a difficult time acquiring the signatures necessary, as even many congressmen who supported the civil rights bill itself were cautious about violating House procedure with the discharge petition. By the time of the 1963 winter recess, fifty signatures were still wanting.
On the return from the winter recess, however, matters took a significant turn. The President's public advocacy of the Act had made a difference of opinion in congressmen's home districts, and soon it became apparent that the petition would acquire the necessary signatures. To prevent the humiliation of the success of the petition, Chairman Smith allowed the bill to pass through the Rules Committee. The bill was brought to a vote in the House on February 10, 1964, and passed by a vote of 290 to 130, and sent to the Senate."
Not to long ago I started a thread on what I thought was the greatest speech in my lifetime by a President which IMO was the one given by LBJ in support of the voting rights act.Here is the link to that speech.No one can watch it and not be moved by LBJ's passion for the issue.
http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3386
To suggest LBJ was not the main person who got these two laws passed and was actually forced too agree to them by congressional republicans is again just beyond revisionism.LBJ had to twist arms of members of both parties to get these things passed which he was famous for knowing how to do and did.:thumbsup:
"Facts are stupid things."
Ronald Reagan
:o
I don't know why you bother, Friday
Guy is a poster boy for the worst of neo conservatism.
Your right probably just a waste of time and effort.I just don't like when history is totally misrepresented.As they say "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it".Unfortunately it seems everything is forgotten every 20 years or so and the lessons we had learned are lost.Would have been unthinkable to embark on a military adventure like Iraq in 1980 as an example as the lessons of vietnam were still fresh but give it a couple decades and thats forgotten and we just head down the same road of getting ourselves into a quagmire once again.
I completely understand. I used to be a history teacher, so neither do I.
Would have been unthinkable to embark on a military adventure like Iraq in 1980 as an example as the lessons of vietnam were still fresh but give it a couple decades and thats forgotten and we just head down the same road of getting ourselves into a quagmire once again.
It is remarkable, isn't it? Even moreso that it was engineered by members of the same generation that lived through Viet Nam :wtf:
I completely understand. I used to be a history teacher, so neither do I.
It is remarkable, isn't it? Even moreso that it was engineered by members of the same generation that lived through Viet Nam :wtf:
I get my love of history from my mom who taught it for many years.While the Bushes and Cheney's lived through it they never learned the lessons.Really has been a lot of revisionsim regarding the war in Vietnam that says we could have/should have prevailed somehow.I remember when Bush visited Vietnam a year or so ago and at a press conference was asked (right in front of the vietnamease mind you) what were the lessons for Iraq to be learned from the American experience in Vietnam.His answer was "don't give up".The guy has real diplomatic skills besides his crazy cowboy lets go to war mentality.
YOU DID NOT, BUT THIS THREAD IS "Obama Has a Race Problem", I stuck to the theme of the thread.
Well I am glad about how you feel. Are you one of those that says "some of my friends are blacks or latinos or whites"
So you say.
No, I don't think I have ever uttered that exact sentence.
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