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some observations
Published Aug. 28, 2008
Here are some observations about Barack Obama:
- He is wealthy.
- He was a lecturer at the University of Chicago law school.
- Predicate to his academic post, he is very well educated.
- He is well spoken in that he uses standard English and not street language and inflections or Ebonics.
- He attended Columbia University and Harvard Law School, not traditionally black insititutions like Howard University or NCCU law.
- He has worked at some of the most influential law firms in the country, firms which are overwhelming white.
- He apparently broke ties with his former minister, an afro-centrist, racist freak.
- His mother is white.
- He has a rather light skin tone for a black man.
Why aren't blacks all over the country calling him an Uncle Tom and a sellout for "acting white?" I mean, that's what happened to Clarance Thomas, Bill Cosby, Shelby Steele, Walter Williams, Juan Williams, Thomas Sowell, and hundreds of other blacks who "got it" when it came to personal responsibility.
It's also what happens to all too many black children in school every day from their thug peers.
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Yea, actually, it has. It was never an issue in the first place.
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August 29, 2008 12:34 a.m.
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August 28, 2008 10:06 p.m.
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August 28, 2008 10:05 p.m.
When a white person thinks that this is such a phenomenal feat for a black person (to be admitted and graduate from an Ivy League school under their own merits), then the white person is contributing to the ideology of viewing that black person as a victim. (less than equal). That's why Cone says that the "thrust" of BLT is to be free of white oppression because white people view black people as victims.*
(The above statements are not consistent with my personal viewpoints, but I am familiar with the works of Dr. James Hal Cone of Union Theological Seminary in N.Y.)
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August 28, 2008 10:02 p.m.
The American part has not been determined yet.
August 28, 2008 9:58 p.m.
I have biracial friends and the teenagers are constantly being told by their black peers that they need to decide if they are going to be black or white. They find that they are more accepted by other races and refuse to be just black or white.
August 28, 2008 9:47 p.m.
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August 28, 2008 9:45 p.m.
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August 28, 2008 9:29 p.m.
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August 28, 2008 9:29 p.m.
I have not argued the point that you insist on making. Yes, the "black experience" is the foundation for BLT.
Are you arguing against my point that Cone's views are little more than Marxist victimology?
Are you calling Cone's views a valid representation of the "black experience"?
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August 28, 2008 9:28 p.m.
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