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Black in the Age of Obama
New York Times ^ | December 5, 2009 | CHARLES M. BLOW

Posted on 12/05/2009 6:06:19 AM PST by Second Amendment First

Blacks are living a tale of two Americas — one of the ascension of the first black president with the cultural capital that accrues; the other of a collapsing quality of life and amplified racial tensions, while supporting a president who is loath to even acknowledge their pain, let alone commiserate in it.

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... the election’s afterglow has nearly faded, the hysteria of hope is being ground against the hard stone of reality. Things have not gotten better. In many ways, they’ve gotten worse.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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So how's that Hopey-Changey working out?
1 posted on 12/05/2009 6:06:19 AM PST by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First
Mmm, mmm, mmm! Barack Insane Obama

He said that all must lend a hand and turn our country into banana land. Mmm, mmm, mmm! Barack Insane Obama

He said we must be fair today and give the lazy half our pay. Mmm, mmm, mmm! Barack Insane Obama

He said that we must take a stand and take our money from the "man". Mmm, mmm, mmm! Barack Insane Obama

He said red, yellow, black or white all commies are equal in his sight Mmm, mmm, mmm! Barack Insane Obama

Yes We Can — single payer is our plan to devastate the mother land. Mmm, mmm, mmm! Barack Insane Obama

2 posted on 12/05/2009 6:08:44 AM PST by IbJensen (Merry Christmas to everyone, especially the ACLU)
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So how's that Hopey-Changey working out?

They are Hoping that this will Change. All they got for their support was a mulatto communist slave master.

3 posted on 12/05/2009 6:10:48 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Second Amendment First

He owns the blacks, they will never leave him. He will soon go after the Hispanics with amnesty, only making things worse for working class blacks. But they still will love Obama, cause he’s a black man!


4 posted on 12/05/2009 6:11:56 AM PST by Sybeck1 (Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm.......)
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To: Second Amendment First

Jesus, do these immature, self-absorbed, narcissistic bungholes ever give it a rest?


5 posted on 12/05/2009 6:12:52 AM PST by Mac from Cleveland ("See what you made me do?" Major Malik Hasan)
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Black in the Age of Obama

What a crock. More of the Black Victimology crappola.

Also, if someone had written a piece titled "White in the Age of GW Bush", they would have been arrested for a hate crime and branded as a racist.

6 posted on 12/05/2009 6:13:22 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: IbJensen
LOL!

Mmm Mmm Mmm (Barack Hussein Obama) by Jimmy Z

Young School Kids Taught to Praise Barack Obama

7 posted on 12/05/2009 6:15:52 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Second Amendment First
We are now inundated with examples of overt racism on a scale to which we are unaccustomed.

Indeed. Examples of this tremendously overt racism:

1) "I dislike President Obama's healthcare policy."
2) "I was surprised when President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize."
3) "I don't like Michelle Obama's boob belts.

It's Jim Crow all over again, man.

8 posted on 12/05/2009 6:16:01 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: Second Amendment First; shibumi

Too.
Damn.
Bad.

Vote with your brain, not your melanin.


9 posted on 12/05/2009 6:18:32 AM PST by Salamander (I'm sure I need some rest but sleepin' don't come very easy in a straight white vest.....)
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To: ClearCase_guy

How dare you make such racist remarks!

Go to the back of the bus, sit down and shut up.

:)


10 posted on 12/05/2009 6:20:23 AM PST by Salamander (I'm sure I need some rest but sleepin' don't come very easy in a straight white vest.....)
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To: Second Amendment First

First, second and third. As far as I know he is isn’t black.


11 posted on 12/05/2009 6:22:28 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Second Amendment First

The liberals have been running race relations in this country since the Civil Rights Movement, and the wreckage is here for all to see. Creating a culture of victimization and racial entitlement has simply weakened the fiber, not only of the black community, but of the country at large.


12 posted on 12/05/2009 6:25:30 AM PST by Malesherbes (Sauve Qui Peut)
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So, what if you’re black and you didn’t vote for Obama and your life was fine before he got here and you’re still hanging on and doing all right now that he’s here but you wish he’d get the heck out of office, and you wish casual acquaintances would stop bringing his name up in coversations because they think I voted for him?


13 posted on 12/05/2009 6:30:06 AM PST by rabidralph (http://www.thealaskafundtrust.com/ http://www.sarahpac.com)
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The hard truth is that Obama needs white voters more than he needs black ones.

And how's that white vote going these days?

14 posted on 12/05/2009 6:31:11 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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To: Mac from Cleveland
Jesus, do these immature, self-absorbed, narcissistic bungholes ever give it a rest?

Actually, no. I would point out that this article is actually fairly well reasoned and written, especially considering that it came from the far left wing psycho Charles Blow. Take a look at some of his previous columns and you'll see what I mean.

Plaxico Burress was locked up for accidentally shooting off a gun in a club. Henry Louis Gates Jr. was locked up for intentionally shooting off his mouth at his own home. And Michael Jackson died after being shot full of propofol. Chris Brown brutally beat Rihanna. Former Representative William Jefferson was convicted. And most recently, the “personal failings” of Tiger Woods portray him as an alley cat. Meanwhile, the most critically acclaimed black movie of the year, “Precious,” features a black man who rapes and twice impregnates his own daughter.

Funny thing, the incidents above. They were all driven by individual behavior and personal choice, not by the evil racist white man. Odd how that works, isn't it.

15 posted on 12/05/2009 6:31:42 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Maureen Dowd is right. I DON'T like our President's color. He's a Red.)
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"and the wreckage is here for all to see"

You talking bout the Total Failure of the Black Pastor/Preacher Class to stop a 80% Bastardy Rate? Or should we blame Whitey for supporting it(Bastardy) with money?

16 posted on 12/05/2009 6:34:22 AM PST by litehaus (A memory tooooo longt A)
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To: Sybeck1

I’ve noticed it isn’t ALL the blacks, just the black women. You get a black man to talk frankly about Obama and the feeling isn’t as unanimous as you’d think. It’s the black women who are willing to run over the cliff for him...and only because he’s married to Michelle.


17 posted on 12/05/2009 6:35:15 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/TeddyVWad.jpg)
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To: Sybeck1
part of me agrees with you... but another part of me can think of many times when the black community turns on one of their own like say a black policeman ... and when they turn, they turn viciously.
18 posted on 12/05/2009 6:39:12 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: IbJensen; stylecouncilor

Lol


19 posted on 12/05/2009 6:45:27 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Second Amendment First
Five Reasons Why a Mulatto Chicago Street Thug Became President:

1. White guilt and the excitement of being the first white on your block or at the office to take 'credit' for electing the first mulatto president.

2. Blacks. They vote liberal, victim, welfare as a block. If there is still a black conservative left in this country he's targeted!

3. Jews. They vote liberal, social justice, money.

4. Leftist Control of Higher Education. Brainwashing.

5. A weak, blue-blood, liberal, media-suckup Republican party which excludes Conservative ideals, patriots, and true Americans who support the Constitution of the United States of America.

20 posted on 12/05/2009 6:51:09 AM PST by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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