Posted on 03/25/2008 1:01:36 PM PDT by Nony
Thank God for Barack Obama. For until his "More Perfect Union" speech last Tuesday, it seems it never occurred to anyone that America needed to talk about race. "Maybe this'll be the beginning of a conversation," Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan proclaimed on "Meet the Press." According to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, just the fact of Obama's address proves that a "national dialogue on race" is "essential." The Chicago Tribune reported that "many voters, black and white, say they were moved by Obama's speech ... which they see as a long-awaited invitation to begin an honest, calm national dialogue about race." Newspaper editorial boards agree. In the words of the San Diego Union-Tribune: "Prodding Americans to confront their racial differences is, by itself, an accomplishment of historical proportions."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
This is racist.
Actually, what this country needs to do is finally, for once and for all, after all these years, to stop talking about race.
Just stop it.
Try this concept out for size: “color-blind citizenship”.
Typical.
LA Times still in business? I did not know that.
"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
Read the whole thing.
Another Goldberg home run.
Ah, I see the time honored tradition here on FR of posters commenting on and ripping apart an article without actually reading the thing is alive and well. At least on this thread.
yep....somewhere a rock is lower in elevation
The only people I see pushing for a “conversation on race” are guilt-ridden white liberals over 40 and black folks who want to use the occassion to bash whites. Thankfully, Asians and Hispanics (both of whom now outnumber blacks in my immediate area) don’t seem to care about the “conversation.”
Goldberg slams this one out of the park and on to the street. How could any sane person claim that no one has been talking about race in this country until Obama “opened the door”? It is absolute madness.
Oops, I am here by mistake.
I thought this was a NASCAR thread.
Sorry, my bad.
“Another Goldberg home run.”
An honest man simply telling us, again, that the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes.
What Obama wants is a monologue along the lines of “The Great Society didn’t work - now expand it”
What Obama wants is a monologue along the lines of “The Great Society didn’t work - now expand it”
Well, if any of us white folk actually try to start an honest dialogue about race, that’s what we’ll be called. I’m going to sit that conversation out, thank you.
susie
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