Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Obama is a log legged Mac Daddy
Not every black preacher likes Obama. Here is one who calls him a log legged Mac Daddy.
This Got Soren Dayton Fired
This is the YouTube video that got one of McCain's people, Soren Dayton, fired because it was said, "Good video on Obama and Wright."
You be the judge.
You be the judge.
Some Comments On Obama
His Grandmother is a typical white woman.
"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it." Obama
The New York Times's Nicholas Kristof hints at this but doesn't quite get the point:
To whites, for example, it has been shocking to hear Mr. Wright suggest that the AIDS virus was released as a deliberate government plot to kill black people.
That may be an absurd view in white circles, but a 1990 survey found that 30 percent of African-Americans believed this was at least plausible.
"That's a real standard belief," noted Melissa Harris-Lacewell, a political scientist at Princeton (and former member of Trinity church, when she lived in Chicago). "One of the things fascinating to me watching these responses to Jeremiah Wright is that white Americans find his beliefs so fringe or so extreme. When if you've spent time in black communities, they are not shared by everyone, but they are pretty common beliefs." . . .
Many African-Americans even believe that the crack cocaine epidemic was a deliberate conspiracy by the United States government to destroy black neighborhoods.
Much of the time, blacks have a pretty good sense of what whites think, but whites are oblivious to common black perspectives.
What's happening, I think, is that the Obama campaign has led many white Americans to listen in for the first time to some of the black conversation--and they are thunderstruck.
All of this demonstrates that a national dialogue on race is painful, awkward and essential. And that dialogue needs to focus not on clips from old sermons by Mr. Wright but on far more urgent challenges--for example, that about half of black males do not graduate from high school with their class.
What it really demonstrates is that whereas whites are expected to be respectful, sensitive and fair-minded when talking with or about blacks, there is little expectation that blacks will reciprocate--to the point that a black presidential candidate doesn't feel inhibited from making a statement about "a typical white person."
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"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it." Obama
The New York Times's Nicholas Kristof hints at this but doesn't quite get the point:
To whites, for example, it has been shocking to hear Mr. Wright suggest that the AIDS virus was released as a deliberate government plot to kill black people.
That may be an absurd view in white circles, but a 1990 survey found that 30 percent of African-Americans believed this was at least plausible.
"That's a real standard belief," noted Melissa Harris-Lacewell, a political scientist at Princeton (and former member of Trinity church, when she lived in Chicago). "One of the things fascinating to me watching these responses to Jeremiah Wright is that white Americans find his beliefs so fringe or so extreme. When if you've spent time in black communities, they are not shared by everyone, but they are pretty common beliefs." . . .
Many African-Americans even believe that the crack cocaine epidemic was a deliberate conspiracy by the United States government to destroy black neighborhoods.
Much of the time, blacks have a pretty good sense of what whites think, but whites are oblivious to common black perspectives.
What's happening, I think, is that the Obama campaign has led many white Americans to listen in for the first time to some of the black conversation--and they are thunderstruck.
All of this demonstrates that a national dialogue on race is painful, awkward and essential. And that dialogue needs to focus not on clips from old sermons by Mr. Wright but on far more urgent challenges--for example, that about half of black males do not graduate from high school with their class.
What it really demonstrates is that whereas whites are expected to be respectful, sensitive and fair-minded when talking with or about blacks, there is little expectation that blacks will reciprocate--to the point that a black presidential candidate doesn't feel inhibited from making a statement about "a typical white person."
From Wall Street Journal Best Of The Web Today
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Will Obama's Grandmother Be Invited To Inaguration?
Barry Obama, as affectionately referred to by his grandmother, has compared her to racist preacher Wright.
And because of Wright's approach to the world, Obama has had to distance himself from him during the campaign.
With Obama comparing his "typical" white woman grandmother to Wright, will he have to distance himself from her?
And should he be elected, will he dare to invite her to his inauguration?
And because of Wright's approach to the world, Obama has had to distance himself from him during the campaign.
With Obama comparing his "typical" white woman grandmother to Wright, will he have to distance himself from her?
And should he be elected, will he dare to invite her to his inauguration?
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Make Money With Your Own Online Gift Shop
Make money by satisfying the constant need for gifts. Regardless of the state of the economy, people buy gifts. Take advantage of that to make money at home full time or part time. There is good information at Unique Handmade Gift Business Opportunity
Monday, November 5, 2007
The deceit behind global warming
No one can deny that in recent years the need to "save the planet" from global warming has become one of the most pervasive issues of our time. Read More
Friday, November 2, 2007
The war in Iraq has been won
THERE is a reason Iraq has almost disappeared as an election issue. Read More
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Media Casualties Mount As War Success Continues
The ranks of print, web and broadcast pundits and journalists continue to be decimated by enemy action as the war progresses. The total number of casualties are becoming almost uncountable, and are overwhelming the limited field emergency facilities. This reporter got a first-hand view of the devastation and tragedy in a visit to a typical field hospital. Read More
The Evolution Of Democracy
Twenty years ago, a political science professor at the University of Michigan came out with a seminal book titled the Evolution of Cooperation.
In it, he described how cooperative strategies could have evolutionary-beneficial consequences, and thus be selected for. In particular, via a series of computer game tournaments in which algorithms were submitted to play an extended iterated prisoner's dilemma, he identified a strategy that was the most successful called "Tit for Tat" (TFT). (Read the link for information as to how the game works.)
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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