Right. Isn't it amazing what the Marxist Laboratory has done to us?
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
Posted on 11/09/2008 11:49:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
African Americans have just entered the no-excuses zone.
We finally have one of our own in the White House. With Barack Obama's ascension to the highest office in the United States, most African Americans feel that we have arrived as fully equal citizens. But we need to recognize that with Obama's victory come challenges -- and that many of those challenges will be put to the black community itself.
Obama isn't like the leaders who have traditionally spoken for black America. As president, he's unlikely to embrace the confrontational identity politics that have defined black activism for so long. He won't tolerate an African American brand of racism or a culture of violence. Nor is he likely to be patient with the long-standing narrative of victimhood that has defined black America to itself and to the mainstream for more than a century.
Obama is already constructing a new black political and cultural narrative -- gathering together the best of the past, including the coalition politics that characterized the early civil rights movement and an image of strong black males that doesn't involve bling-bling or hip-hop misogyny. He has decried the low-hanging pants fashion so popular with young black men, blasted rapper Ludacris for offensive song lyrics and called on fathers to take responsibility for their families.
Are African Americans ready to accept all this and respond positively? Are they ready for a truly post-racial America?
The answer isn't clear. Just a few days after Obama's stunning win, black America is already divided over what his election means, arguing about what it should expect from a "black president" -- and about whether his first obligation is to black America or to all America.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“He won’t tolerate an African American brand of racism or a culture of violence.”
The writer of this article is an idiot. There is no other explanation.
Here’s what he’ll do to blacks in America:
-entice them to abort their own babies
-mock their values (ie, gay marriage)
-ensure their kids are stuck in crappy schools
-screw the economy
-draft them
I won’t hold my breath- Obama is in the business of giving what isn’t his to people whose it isn’t, either.
What planet did she just arrive from?
Hasn't she seen what Obama sat and listened to for the past 20 years?
Hasn't she read any of those books Obama wrote?
Hasn't she listened to ANYTHING Obama has said during the course of his campaign?
Jonetta Rose Barras sounds just like all the rest who voted Obama. They didn't hear a word he said, they just saw the color of his skin.
Good grief, blacks finally elected a racist to the Presidency, who took his children to a racist, anti-American church for 20 years.
They have their revenge....what more do they want?
Firstly I think he’s going to raise their taxes...
Well damn. What about women, chinese (& all the -ese people), "Native" americans, Hispanics, and whoever else I am probably leaving out. I feel fully equal as a citizen even though I've never seen my people in the white house. What a bunch of whiney baloney.
What he lept was the biggest pile of BS, excberated by PC, that I've ever seen.
Free gas, free houses, and lotsa cheeze.
Most black people would vote for satan over Jesus is satan had a D by his name.
And yes, i’m certfied black enough to say this so don’t get scared and think “raaaaaacisssttttt”
Ok Uncle Tom :o) /s
lol.
Notice how as long as everyone talks about his color of skin then Emperor Barry does his handiwork in pushing socialist policies and a new world order. As soon as we get away from this man’s color of a skin and get him off of the pedestal he is on, people will start looking at what he is doing.
In the words of the poet "nothing, nothing, nothing --- nothing at all."
The “no excuse zone”? What kind of language is this? “Talk to the hand” sister.
Obama’s full of excuses and you all will be when he shames you all.
Well, I would think that they have no more excuses to be victims of the whitey's
They rejected the Keyes, Scalias and Watts for this sorry liberal a$$ called Hussein. They’re all sorry cases of “excuse zones” from the start.
Right. Isn't it amazing what the Marxist Laboratory has done to us?
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
So now they've already got me thinking in the same Twilight Zone terms that took Obama over the top...
See?
There really is a middle ground.
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