Posted on 05/13/2009 10:45:12 AM PDT by lewisglad
No, “activist” black Americans will NEVER disown 0bama until we stop reading articles like this, where race is gratuitously thrown in despite it’s patent irrelevance. It’s the same group of black Americans who will not disown other black Americans who commit crimes. I practice criminal law, and I often have the black client whose family and friends claim he was arrested or is being harshly prosecuted simply because he is black. My usual response is that if they want the claim of racism taken seriously, they ought to seriously consider NOT COMMITTING CRIMES. It doesn’t help a claim of racism that the police found cocaine, guns and counterfeit checks in the stolen car they crashed during the high-speed pursuit.
No, too many blacks see the bogeyman of racism behind every bush and tree; they will not disown 0bama.
LOL Bernard... point taken...
excellent point. Thanks for the post
BTW-isn't obammy half white? I mean...why is he considered black? Because he married a black?
I’m sorry but you will have to change the great one’s lineage. He is really a Caucasian/african-american. Remember, his Mommy was White - at least, I thinks that is what he claims.
Good for VP Cheney and the rest. In normal times, I think it is appropriate for previous admins to keep their trap shut. Obama is not normal and he will destroy this country as we know it. I’m glad the Cheney clan is speaking out.
European slave traders did not even enter the picture until the late 15th century and then it was only the Iberian Europeans.
The northern and northeast Africans were in about the 6th or 7th century of practicing slavery by then. In fact, it was the forced conversion to Islam which turned large swaths Africa from Egypt to Nigeria from being among the most advanced civilizations in the world at the time of Mohammad into being virtually destroyed by the time the Portuguese begin to explore it in depth by the early 15th century, to be followed by the Spanish, who looked at Africa as a source of cheap labor to develop their holdings in the Americas.
Indeed, the mortality rate was so poor among slaves sent to present day Latin America that the British, Dutch and slave traders which came into the sorry trade over the next two centuries were considered benevolent.
Indeed, one of the early justifications for slavery was the higher civilizations of northern Europe were saving lives by rescuing the people of west central Africa from the aggressive tribes of northeast Africa who would either (a)kill them, (b)work them to death or (c)sell them to the Iberians who would work them to death.
It’s about time, I was wondering if anyone in the GOP would do it.
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