[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Imploringly: Read the entire article before commenting. Considering the Boston Globe gives the option of 'sharing' the article, you'd figure that it could be posted in its entirety on FR. Huh.

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[Original post before discovering the article had to be excerpted:] Who wants to bet a lot of freepers will find oodles to whine about this article, ignoring the huge chunks of good stuff and griping about the few 'bad' (but generally truthful) bits? (rhetorical - though you're free to answer if you want).

[Stentor]

Not going to whine because I’m not going to read it.

[hoosiermama]

Have been having this conversation with a few friends around here....Does ) election mean “I'm a victim” is now removed from the table. What about affirmative action?

[freekitty]

I can’t believe the Boston Globe would have anything good to say; but I can hear a big SLAM by the conservatives.

I am through with these stupid newspapers. I do wonder; with their messiah in place; what are they going to write about? LOL

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

"Black people don't want to hear it. White people don't want to hear it."

My view is that neither may want to hear it, but both sides (at least some of their members) obviously NEED to hear it, considering how sizable percentages* of both communities hate each other.

There's obviously a problem there. You solve problems by: firstly, recognizing they exist; understanding the problem; and then ATTACKING THE PROBLEM. No problem has been solved by trying to wish it away and pretending that it doesn't exist. *I consider 10% or even 5% large, when you're talking about a population in the hundred of millions. And an estimated 15% of young people still disapprove of miscegenation ('interracial' marriage). What the pa'doozy?

[I took a break from FR precisely because I was posting on 'racial' overdrive, now here I am doing it again. Crikey.]

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

At the same time, major disparities in income and education continue to separate black and white America; gang violence takes the lives of black teenagers in cities across America; and a generation of black men call prison their home. Community leaders want these problems solved somehow.

What a happy coincidence! I happen to know the solutions for these problems!

1. The single biggest predictive factor for poverty is having a child out of wedlock. The black community can make amazing progress on this problem if black people would get married and have children within their marriage!

2. Black youths should stop becoming gangstas.

3. Black men should stop committing serious crimes.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I read the article. The race-baiting grifters will still pimp their agenda, collect their tax-exempt “donations” and find a way to make a living at what they do best. They’re not done with their damage to society, yet.

When Obama cannot deliver on his improbable, impossible, ridiculous promises, blacks are going to eat him alive. But not conservative blacks; they didn’t vote him in, in the first place.

Just my 2-cents.

[OB1kNOb]

That makes Jesse sad.

[reagankid]

Good article... a black pastor in Indianapolis was quoted in this mornings paper saying "black Americans need to change their ways. Obama can not solve our problems on his own. We as a people have to decrease violence and increase love. Deadbeat dads are going to have to stop being deadbeat. There's a laundry list of things to do and sacrifices for us to be successful".

Hopefully the victimhood mentality is finally on it's deathbed...

[fightinJAG]

Personally, this is the ONE thing about this election that I am happy about. Sure, there will continue to be a few race-baiters who try to keep “their” people on the plantation of victimhood, but many, many more people will finally realize and internalize that it ie a LIE that the “American dream” is not for them because of their race.

Many, many more will realize that the front gate has been wide open all this time. Their leaders told them constantly that there was no way they could make against the “oppresion” in this society. That was hooey and now there is no excuse for not knowing it is hooey.

I abhor Obama’s politics. But sometimes I think that the spirit of freedom from race-baiters and the racial-grievance industry-— characterized by Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright (both of whom live in million dollars homes in “white” neighborhoods)-— that Obama’s election will finally make convincing to those oppressed by their own “civil rights leaders,” will in itself eventually repudiate Obama’s politics.

Socialism (which leads to communism, which leads to totalitarianism, which leads to the brutal murder of hundreds of millions of innocents) thrives on class envy combined with victimhood.

If many more young people look at Obama and say “I want to succeed like he did, and I can,” that will be a wonderful thing for our nation.

AND many of them, upon learning the ropes of success, will realize the welfare state is slavery and they will want no part of it.

[mikemoose]

I also posted this on another affirmative action thread...

Well, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a decision dated November 4, 2008, held 10 U.S.C. § 2323 (”Section 1207”) unconstitutional a race-based violation of the right to equal protection.

http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/11/federal-governm.html