Comments on: When “acknowledgment” means “perpetuation,” or Obama, liberals, and the issue of race.

By: Roger’s Rules » Where is Jeeves when you need him, or Does Boris Johnson need a minder?

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:57:48 +0000

[...] equality–whether Americans will elect a black president.” But as I pointed out in a comment on that article, the reporter’s “ultimate test” is really a racist examination, [...]

By: FreedomLover

FreedomLover — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:43:03 +0000

One of these guys will lose. Whose supporters are more likely to accept defeat with equanimity, continue their lives as normal, and be grateful to live in a country with free elections?

Whose supporters are more likely to charge fraud, engage in lawsuites, destroy property, and exhibit hateful behavior and speech for the winner’s entire term?

What do your answers tell you about the two candidates and the messages they are sending their supporters?

By: mRed

mRed — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:38:24 +0000

Ponzi rules:
Whites give land and money to blacks.
Blacks give land and money to Indians.
Indians sell land back to whites for profit.
Indians enlarge reservations.
Blacks scream ‘we were screwed again.’
Start money and land transfer cycle again.

Muslim Africans pissed they missed out on slave profit this time around.

By: Stones Cry Out - If they keep silent… » Things Heard: e29v5

Stones Cry Out - If they keep silent… » Things Heard: e29v5 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:56:26 +0000

[...] Mr Obama (and liberals) on race. [...]

By: Broadsword

Broadsword — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:14:06 +0000

I am opposed to the candidacy of His Inflated-ness, for the same reason some 90% of those Americans whose past greats- and great-greats endured slavery are in support. They wish to see a ‘Black’ President and I do not. I pause… allowing the howls to die away. If skin color does not indicate a lack of character, neither can it be a repository of character. To vote for or against based on something so stupid as skin color while ignoring character and judgement, shows neither judgement nor character. Yes, yes, yes, I know. It’s got a nice beat, and you can dance to it.

By: JP

JP — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:39:28 +0000

When will Jesse, Al, et al, demand reparations from the People who Sold their ancestors into slavery?
Slave traders bought slaves from Arabs, and victorious Chieftains. The Arabs also bought many slaves from tribes who had captured rivals in battle or ambush. The Dutch and other slavers didn’t go chasing after people in the jungles, as portrayed in Roots. That method was a good way to end up dead.
The demand I apologize for something that happened before most all my ancestors even made it onto the continent, and when none were in the country, is absurd.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:25:38 +0000

One problem with condemning America’s tragic past is that on the flip side of most every tragic event one can find a display of America’s glory and ideals. Slavery begat the Civil War. Shaara said it best in The Killer Angels: “This is a different kind of army. If you look at history you’ll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or just because they like killing. But we’re here for something new. This hasn’t happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free…” US imperialism in Central America begat the Panama Canal and the expansion of commerce.The pollution and dehumanization wrought by the commericalization of the internal combustion engine and the assembly line begat the middle class. It goes on and on and on. Obama is unfit to be President because he sees America as a glass forever half full. Though he pays lip service to it in his speeches because he knows he must, I do not think Obama truly appreciates the exceptionalism and greatness of America.

By: william (not a prince)

william (not a prince) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:25:05 +0000

If the South had triumphed, I would give more credence to Obama’s statement. America is a melodrama and occasionally a farce but not yet a tragedy.

By: Porkov

Porkov — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:13:12 +0000

מנא ,מנא, תקל, ופרסין. If we’re going for Tragedy of the type that distinguishes Shakespeare and the Greek playwrights, let’s not give Obama the opportunity the Babylonians gave Belshazzar. However, I am all for putting theater back into the Olympics.

By: Norm Roth

Norm Roth — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:14:59 +0000

I think we should force the Italians and the Irish to pay all the reparations, after all the streets were paved with gold when they arrived, and those greedy bastards took up all that gold and replaced them with cobblestones. No, lets just have the Jews pay for reparations; after all we know they have always owned all the banks in America.