Posted on 03/24/2008 10:40:19 AM PDT by urabus
Obama, in his Philadelphia speech, loudly denounced the deplorable conditions in black communities. Yet, he said not one word about the fact that those communities have been run by Democrats for the past 40 years. The socialist policies of the Democrats have fostered a culture of dependency on government handouts and turned those communities into economic and social wastelands. Obama also rails against the failure to educate black children. However, he gives a pass to teachers' union special interest groups that are responsible for black children not being educated. Those groups are aligned with the Democratic Party and are against school choice opportunity scholarships that would help black parents get their children out of failing schools. Liberal teachers act against the best interest of black children because they want to keep control of the buildings, and thus the money, but the money belongs to the people, not the buildings.
The root cause of the grinding poverty in black communities that is ignored by Obama is well documented by black Democrat Juan Williams in his book entitled Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America.
(Excerpt) Read more at blackrepublican.blogspot.com ...
Notably, in his speech, Obama mentioned the slavery history of the family of his wife, Michelle. He failed to say one word about the unsavory slave-owning past of his own white relatives. Historical records uncovered by researchers and posted on the Internet at: http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm show that Obama's maternal forbearers were slaveholders. In fact, one of Obama's ancestors, George Washington Overall, owned two slaves as is recorded in the Nelson County, Kentucky 1850 Census. The same records show that another one of Obama's ancestors, Mary Duvall, also owned two slaves. All of Obama's slave-owning forbearers were Democrats.
He never mentioned his slave-trading Arab ancestors.
Oh you silly thing;)
Obama’s mother is insignificant - as one of my black buddies would laughingly say: “it only takes a spoonful” and Obama, the opportunist, has chosen to be black.
Bill Richardson’s mother - on the other hand - is Hispanic and, opportunistically, he has chosen to be Hispanic.
So stop trying to use facts........LOL!
All Americans, especially Americans of color should read this article and know Barry Obama.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
If Obama ever mentions slavery again I’d like to see him challenged on the fact that his ancestors owned slaves.
Of course I doubt that it will ever happen...
You are correct. Obama seems only to mention his white heritage as a cover for insulting *typical white people*.
As a result of the *color of his skin* he has opted to glom on to the *slave* heritage of his wife - because he,himself (Kenyan father) simply has no history of ancestral enslavement in America.
Martin Luther King would be appalled.
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