Posted on 07/16/2008 9:49:46 AM PDT by Baladas
Americans are sharply divided by race heading into the first election in which an African-American will be a major-party presidential nominee, with blacks and whites holding vastly different views of Senator Barack Obama, the state of race relations and how black Americans are treated by society, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
The results of the poll, conducted against the backdrop of a campaign in which race has been a constant if not always overt issue, suggested that Mr. Obamas candidacy, while generating high levels of enthusiasm among black voters, is not seen by them as evidence of significant improvement in race relations.
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question: if Barack Obama does not win the election, will there be riots in the streets?
Liberals just cannot move beyond their fixation with race. I am beginning to understand more acutely that they really do not see blacks as the equivalent of themselves. Of course whey would they? They are such elitists that they see no one as the equivalent of themselves. If they only knew!
Obama is despised by Conservatives because he is a dishonest, clueless, unethical, unamerican, Socialist-—and for no other reason.
show us Condy Rice, Clarence Thomas, Shelby Steele, Walter Williams, or Alan Keyes and watch how the color-blind Conservatives vote.
Liberals, you need to leave your Jim Crow thinking and enter the world-view of respect for others, beneficence, and accountability. In other words, if you want to make a difference by bettering the lives o f all Americans, become Conservatives.
I love being Conservative. I can live my life in spite of what happens in DC.
“question: if Barack Obama does not win the election, will there be riots in the streets?”
The analogy is during the Civil War, where at Gettyburg the Union troops, standing behind their defense works, mowed down the charging Confederates. Union troops chanted, “Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg”, where Conferderate troops mowed down Union troops, standing behind breastworks.”...
...Many white people will be at workplaces and out in public, lauging at Obama’s defeat, chanting, “OJ, OJ”.
I’m halfway kidding, but to answer your question, yes their will be blacks rioting and burning down the streets.
Its not possible that Hillary is still trying to undermine Obama and step in to a chaotic convention to save the day. Nope, the beast is finally dead.
I would say a large majority of blacks like Obama and a giant majority of the media, but I would bet there is a divide amongst blacks. I would bet a fairly sizable amount of black Americans, especially older ones don't like the fact he is a closet Muslim.
“Are you sure you didn’t mean, “The Democrats position seems to be that if you don’t vote for Obama, you’re a racist.”?
Aside from Obama’s liberal bona fides, I think the Democrats are willing to overlook all of his deficiencies because of his ethnicity. If not, why choose him over Hillary?
To those with principles voting for someone because of race is equally racist to voting against someone because of race.
Obama is too liberal! This has nothing to do with race...except for the idiots who are voting FOR him because of his race!
This is BS. How do they think he was nominated, by the black vote alone? What a bunch of lying POS.
You act as if that is a good thing. Do you really think Obama would make a better president than Hillary? I hate Hillary and Bill but would prefer either one of them in the WH to the marxist bastard that Obama is. He is a liar, a deceitful communist SOB who is being manipulated by someone and will do his best to turn this country completely communist as soon as he can.
Improvement may, I say may, be finally admitted when every last dollar has been removed from your wallet.
*Fist Bump*
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Two things, in retrospect he should not have done or mentioned. Who was he trying to impress? People whose vote he was concerned about? Yeah it’s subtle, but he blew it with the wrong sort of symbolism. What’s next, throwing a gang sign?
Isn't closing the divide? They've got to be kidding, he and his camp followers in the MSM are doing everything possible everyday to create a real divide, instead of an imaginary one.
Not even worth reading the article: I’ll just respond to the silly headline:
Why on earth would SnObama’s run have any effect of closing “the racial divide”?
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