Posted on 03/29/2008 12:05:38 PM PDT by AJFavish
In 1995 Obama stated: "These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a 'lock 'em up, take no prisoners' mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress" and "that white Americans couldn't care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing."
http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/archive/barackobama/
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"This doesn't suggest that the need to look inward emphasized by the march isn't important, and that these African-American tribal affinities aren't legitimate. These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a 'lock 'em up, take no prisoners' mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress. Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn't care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing."
"But cursing out white folks is not going to get the job done. Anti-Semitic and anti-Asian statements are not going to lift us up. We've got some hard nuts-and-bolts organizing and planning to do. We've got communities to build."
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Regards,
Allan J. Favish
http://www.allanfavish.com
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagoreader.com ...
And just who was running the White House and all government agencies in 1995? The GOP didn’t take over the Congress till January 1995 ... not likely that within that very year things culd possibly have suddenly gotten so bad for blacks.
Its getting to the point that we can’t care less.
“I am being told now that the marching I did for equal rights in the late sixties and the integration movements I was part of in the 70’s didn’t matter diddly....I am still a “typical white person” ( said with disgust and disdain ).”
The new, young Democrats who the Democrats are so proud to have registered have been quick to throw out those who are considered to be The Establishment. Keep in mind Obama himself is 46 - a baby boomer. Many of the ones who are screaming about stolen elections in 2008 (Cuyahoga County, Ohio primary) weren’t screaming with the rest of their party in the general elections of 2000 and 2004. The Democrats couldn’t be more crass than they are today and yes, they have instantly taken us back to the sixties. Why they want to bring back those turbulent times is beyond me - but then, as a member of The Establishment, I guess I don’t know what I’m talking about (or what I remember). I heard someone call into - ummm - was it Hannity? - well anyway, a Dem called into one of the conservative talk shows and said that he had contacted the DNC and expressed his dissatisfaction with the anti-Israel comments (he happens to be Jewish) and was basically told to take a flying leap. Nice.
I know McCain isn’t suitable for true conservatives, but I really hope that in November Republicans of all kinds will come together and vote for him.
On a related note involving alleged voter irregularities which particularly impacted the African American community in Ohio:
“Obama’s first action in the Senate was to decline to be the Senate co-sponsor of a move to question Ohio’s Electoral College votes following the 2004 presidential election. He then voted against the resolution.”
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barack_Obama
I'll see that and raise you one "looser", as in: "That guy is a real looser."
Kudos to ya both!
I think somebody needs to make a "speach" about that, "irregardless" of what anybody else thinks. The "speach" should "definately" have lots of "pacific" detail's. ;-)
Maybe it’s because white americans have their share of problems too that they’re not continually blaming another group for?
Perhaps they have enough problems of their own that they cannot be distracted with the problems of others?
Oh-I forgot. White people have it all locked up, so they have no problems. Still keeping the other ones down after all these years. Blah, blah, blah.
Does The Tragedy of Racial Division Still Haunt America Today? If It Doesn’t, We’ll Make Damn Sure It Does! Film at Eleven!
I spent the entire 1990s in the San Francisco Bay Area, working and also going to graduate school at Cal. The amount of opportunity in this area over that decade was astounding. I saw with my own eyes who took advantage of that opportunity and who did not. The truth of black poverty is simply different today in 2008 than it was 40 years ago in 1968. Those black folks in the Bay Area who are under 40 today grew up without legal segregation or discrimination and benefited from affirmative action. They also have lived in a place that enjoyed great diversity and open-mindedness and experienced an economic expansion the likes of which the world has rarely seen. That there are huge swaths of unproductive, impoverished, disfunctional and criminalized people after such a period of opportunity when every other group succeeded far more than they did points to an internal, cultural source for their relative failure.
Jesse and Al are gonna be PISSED!
I have been so naive all these years. I feel betrayed.
But I know that not all African-Americans believe this hate, and spew this anger.
I will not let their anger turn me into hate.
Yo bama ... he is what he is
Ha. never thought of it that way...you’re right!
thanks for your calm articulate post. My reactions are out of frustration and dissapointment, but we must not let this garbage change us.
Obama's involvement with the Black Liberation Theology has opened my eyes to what is going on in USA and what has been going on for a long while.
I am now aware, thank goodness.
Regarding his 1995 statement "that white Americans couldn't care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing," he should be asked if he presently believes that this statement accurately describes his white supporters today, especially those in the Democrat party.
He can't do it on the minority vote alone.
He can do it if the media buries what he has said.
Well, I don't see any of the above as not being the direct result of their own behavior. Seventy (70%) percent of black families don't have a father living with them. They desert their families just as Barack Hussein Obama's father deserted him. Nearly 50% of sexually active black females have an STD. Drugs and black on black crime is pervasive in their communities. They are the victims of their own way of life, their own choices. By-and-large they refuse to join the more civilized "cracker" culture that prospers around them, and because of their anger and rebellion they pay the price of poverty and misery.
One whom, I might add, seems to totally disrespect him, at least publicly.
bttt
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