Comments on: Will the Obama Effect Move Us Beyond Race?

By: joe

joe — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:40:00 +0000

No he will not move us forward but only backwards.

There are a set of core values, which determines success in America. Those groups or races, which embrace these values are successful and those who do not have very difficult lives. These values are: 1- Get an education 2- Don’t break the law 3- Get a job and keep a job 4- If you are going to have kids get married first and then stay married.

If you listen to him, this might be the subtext of his theme about responsibility. It is unfortunate for black Americans these are just hollow words. Most time they are not discussed but when they are it is in the context of blacks being victims.

So should he successful as POTUS then question will be asked why cannot other blacks be successful. If he fails and given how he is such a symbol for the black community then the assessment will be blacks really cannot not make the grade.

This is all going to end very badly for America and especially so for black Americans.

By: bbb

bbb — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:48:17 +0000

Has H made any indication that he would like to end affirmative action? Until that vestige of the anti-Jim-Crow era is abolished, race relations in this country will never heal.

But it would appear that H is the epitome of the affirmative action culture. Charming but undistinguished, given a pass at every stage of his life because of his race, proud owner of a full deck of race cards, he is particularly unsuited to move us into the post-racial era.

BBB

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:04:21 +0000

I do not believe that Obama will move this country towards looking beyond race. He will move this country in the opposite direction. During the campaign, he is the candidate who injected race into the argument. Hillary never brought it up, and none of the Republicans brought it up either. Obama, with his sanctimonious rhetoric, kept saying “Oh, did I mention he’s black?”

I know many people voted for him because he was black, and were afraid to criticize his policies in fear of being tagged as a racist. The media’s glowing coverage of him was in large part due to their wanting to be part of helping to elect the first black president.

I’m sure that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be very pleased that America has elected its first black president. I do not believe he would be pleased with the man, Barack Obama. He certainly was not chosen based on the content of his character. He has proven throughout the campaign (and in his short time in office) that he has very little.

By: caro

caro — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:08:47 +0000

I work with public school children in the South, and I can personally attest to the truth in Daniel’s article. Many black children have not been raised to believe that they can achieve the same goals as can their white counterpoints. Obama’s victory encouraged a whole generation of minorities to be successful, even if it means going against the social norms.

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:10:03 +0000

From what’s transpired to date, I do not think anyone can argue that the Democrats want anything to do with “Balance of Power”. They’ve made it quite clear they want as much power as possible; If that means eliminating the other Parties, then good.
I see nothing but Democrats purchasing as much power as they can buy with OUR TAX DOLLARS. It’s obvious they want total control. If they can buy any ethnic group, they’ll try.
Anyone with the intention of carrying out this philosophy, doesn’t know what the Constitution and/or America is about. Race is only a part of the current problem.

By: Pirate

Pirate — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:04:05 +0000

Comments section has epic white angst lulz

By: WestGuard

WestGuard — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:46:36 +0000

41. Blackwell,

No problem and sorry if my post seemed aimed at you personally, it wasn’t. I shouldn’t have included your name to give the impression I was posting directly to you rather than just blathering in general to just a part of your post (which I realised, after re-reading again that I misconstrued anyway!) My bad for not reading your post in it’s entirety, I actually agree with a lot you said.

By: eor

eor — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:20:39 +0000

Obama is making the mistake of doing the “Chicago” Boss thing. He is not “leading”. I thought maybe he was looking down his nose at us because he had “little man syndrome”. He does stand with his nose in the air. Then I read that Michelle is over 6 feet tall and he is about her height. So that wasn’t why.

By: stuart Williamson

stuart Williamson — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:44:30 +0000

If we had elected an Afro-American of high character and statesman capability, I would rejoice, and racial relations would have improved in perpetuity.

The tragedy is that the Democrats nominated and, then elected. to the highest office in the world, a “black” President whose background is deliberately hidden from inspection, whose experience is confined to racially-focussed Chicago machine politics, whose legislative performance is pitifully week, who is on record as a doctrinaire socialist, and whose self-adoration is on continual display. Yet, if he fails to meet the challenges he faces because of these shortcomings, a large segment of the electorate will claim that his failure was ENTIRELY the resusult of racial bias, and be bitterly – possibly violently -articulate about it.

The inconvenient truth is that Obama’s presidency is lilely to set racial relations back by about two decades.

By: eor

eor — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:25:12 +0000

Obama is the one who played the race card, as did his supporter’s, subsequently. Noone else would touch it in a country mile. Then he and his supporters attacked women. I wonder if that is the muslim influence in his life. They certainly have no respect for women. Where are the feminists? Absent.