Posted on 09/14/2008 3:08:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
I am a black man born in 1954, the year of Brown v. Board of Education. Fleeing the abuses of Jim Crow, my parents moved from South Carolina to Washington, D.C., later that decade. Tales of racial oppression and racial resistance were staples of conversation in our household. My father often spoke of watching Thurgood Marshall argue the case ( Rice v. Elmore) that invalidated the rule permitting only whites to vote in South Carolina's Democratic primary. Memories of that story played a large part in producing the tears I shed on the evening Barack Obama won this year's primary in the Palmetto State.
Related memories -- the most haunting being our visit to a D.C. funeral home to pay last respects to Medgar Evers, the courageous head of the Mississipppi branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who was murdered by a segregationist -- helped reduce me to tears, again, on the night the senator from Illinois accepted his party's nomination as its candidate for president.
Never before have my emotions been so exercised by a political campaign. For one thing, never before has a candidate so fully challenged the many inhibitions that have prevented people of all races, including African Americans, from seriously envisioning presidential power in the hands of someone other than a white American. With intelligence, verve and elegance, Obama has opened the public mind to the idea of a black president and made that idea broadly attractive.
The senator's progressive politics, cosmopolitan ethos and pragmatic style have turned me into an enthusiastic supporter, and I savor the prospect of his triumph. But I'm watching this election very closely as I teach a course about it this semester.
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What is happening to FR serveR?
What is happening to FR serveR?
What is happening to FR serveR?
Though he did mention Dr. Thomas Sowell, he failed to point out Dr. Sowell is one of the finest thinkers in our country, black or white. Dr. Sowell has written many columns on Obama giving specific reasons that Obama should not be our next president.
Thomas Sowell columns re Obama
Changes in Politics
Whose “Special Interests”?
The Galbraith Effect
…As Well As Several Other Issues
Are Facts Obsolete?
Conservatives for Obama?
Cocky Ignorance
Obama and McCain
Irrelevant Apologies
Success Built on Work Ethic
An Old Newness
A Living Lie
Obama’s Speech
Race and Politics
Non-Judgmental Nonsense
What is happening to FR serveR?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Nonsense.
Why didn't the hope of black America ride on the shoulders of Colin Powell, Condi Rice or Clarence Thomas? That's the problem, if Obama were a Republican they'd be singing the opposite tune.
The hopes of “black America” whatever that is, ride on THEMSELVES.
Crazy concept I know. Just nuts huh?
LOL
Oh, that's right. Only the elected leaders KNOW what is good for us...
f'ing idiot....
Someone on another thread said there were problems all over the net - not just FreeRepublic.
Someone on another thread said there were problems all over the net - not just FreeRepublic.
It's also racist to vote for someone because of the color of their skin.
Given just that one little factoid, how do blacks justify sticking with the dummycrats?
It's also racist to vote for someone because of the color of their skin.
It's insulting to Obama who is running as a man who happens to be black - not as a black man.
This drama queen crap would have been more appropriate when Jesse Jackson was running as a token black man - lots of emotion and no chance of being elected.
I won't vote for Obama, not because he's black - but because he's liberal.
what a load of steamin’ bs.
we all know that Obama is the first “post racial” candidate.
following that logic - there can be no racism in the election process.
After the landslide on November 4th these should be the talking points:
Our base voted like it always did, and we didn’t have a problem with a WOMAN on our ticket.
YOUR BASE defected from Obama, so if you would like to call anyone racists start with DEMOCRATS, the party of segregation and the KKK. The democratic party’s chickens are coming home to roost!!!!
Because looking at the polls, that’s EXACTLY why Obama is going to lose.
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