Posted on 03/21/2008 3:57:54 AM PDT by Conservative Vermont Vet
Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.
Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.
Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.
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It started with family oral tradition which sparked my interest. I started my research online and eventually went to Virginia to look at court records, but most anything you’d need would be available on the web today. Rootsweb,Genealogy.com, ancestory.com. Virginia history and Southern Families books are also helpful. I met a distant cousin who was also researching and we traded info so that helped the process along. The fact that my surname isn’t particularly common helps a great deal. Talk to your cousins, aunts,uncles, and grandparents. Chances are someone knows the oral history and it’s a great starting point!
You will get more gratitude for the Iraqi’s then from any
blacks in this country. The “Lets start a Conversation”
is meant to be one-way.
Obviously Obama is comfortable in the company of racists, which brings the issue to the forefront. There'll be no lack of similar opinions from the other side. We'll see how the conversation develops, I suppose the result could be the complete rejection of racism, but I fear you're right, we'll be reliving the same arguements.
yeah, but only white people pay taxes.
And white people had nothing to do with any of this legislation, the majority of both houses being black.
My ancestors from Ireland also arrived in time to fight to free the slaves. The reparations for slavery were paid in blood.
“If they stop raping white woman”
Oh,so if they rape BLACK women,thats not so bad then?
This is a vicious blood libel, the equivalent of the muslim blood libel against Jews, claiming they kill muslim children, to make matzo balls from their blood.
A generation of blacks who have been taught this disgusing blood libel by their hate-spewing leaders can only believe that they are justified in killing whites.
Spreading this blood libel is the worst sin and most evil action of hate mongering false pastors like Jeremiah Wright.
Photograph taken on the streets of San Francisco by "zombietime"
I once told a black friend that if his ancestors had not been slaves, he would be rotting in some African hell hole and I wouldn’t have to listen to him whine.
Ended the conversation.
Its very difficult to have a civil rational discussion about ANYTHING in this country anymore but race is even more emotional and brings out the worst in everybody.
Maybe thats best.Sometimes honesty can be way too painful for all concerned.
There’s a couple branches missing on our family tree because of the civil war.Who’s gonna compensate us?
What will happen if Obama looses? I don’t know about the
political conditions in Kenya, where his cousin was running
for president or PM or some office and didn’t win. They
did have big riots and now the cousin Odinga is in a type
of co-operative government. I think that Obama went over
there after the riots ended.
It is from the mouth of the man Obama chose as a mentor, and who chose to introduce his children to faith. The equivalent would be a candidate immersed in Christian Identity or the klan, who, of course, disagrees with the most extreme views, but remains silent none the less.
Yes, it does come down to worldview. Christianity teaches ‘pick up your mat,’ it teaches personal responsibility, it teaches one to rise above whining and blaming others, it teaches forgiving over resentment, it teaches honoring character over race and living an honorable life, in spite of all odds.
But BO’s church teaches and values NONE of these things.
I believe they are not teaching Christianity at all. (duh, huh?)
Ping
Might be up your alley
I know; I love Zombie. He’s a poet-warrior. Has gotta be a Freeper, in some form.
Umm, they're all dead.
There you go.
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