Racism Blamed for Clamor Over Obama
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| Wed, 09-16-2009 - 8:55am |
Do you agree with Carter?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/15/AR2009091503689.html
Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that he believes race is at the core of much of the opposition to President Obama.
"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American," Carter told NBC in an interview. "I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that shared the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African Americans"
Continued Carter: "And that racism inclination still exists. . . . It's an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply."
The 39th president also predicted that Obama will be able to "triumph over the racist attitude that is the basis for the negative environment that we see so vividly demonstrated in public affairs in recent days."
See the following videos. I've never heard so much ignorance. Most don't appear to know why or what they're protesting & can't back-up the 'catch phrases' they're parroting. These people vote! Now that's scary.....
9.12 DC TEA PARTY - MARCH FOOTAGE WITH INTERVIEWS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq5Y
9/12 Taxpayer Tea Party March on Washington, DC



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As an aside, from conservative writer Andrew Sullivan's blog on Atlantic Monthly, this and photo of protestors of yor here:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/the-latest-insanity.html#more
25 Sep 2009 12:51 pm
The Latest Insanity, Ctd
A reader writes:
Of course they are screaming 'socialism'. They've been doing that since the 50s at least. They're not talking about economic redistribution of wealth - they never have been. They've been talking about redistribution of privilege this whole time. They called MLK a communist because he wanted blacks to have the same rights as whites, and to them that was a redistribution of the privilege that whites had 'earned'.
In their view, white, Christian, heterosexuals have earned something that gays, non-Christians, and non-heteros have failed to work hard enough at. It's been a class war from the outset, just not one based around income or net worth - mostly because the whites in the south were economically pretty bad off and blacks in the north were catching up to them.
This picture shows they were pushing the same buttons half a century ago that they are today. Anti-christ, communism - it's all the same as it is today and is well known code. It's why the protesters will decry socialism today but wouldn't have under Bush - it's all tied to race and other social objectives and has nothing really to do with taxation, deficits, and big government. You probably missed it when you came to the US, but this is pretty old game - particularly to guys like Carter that grew up around it.
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That was surreal. Change "race mixing" on those posters to Obama, and it's the Tea Party March on Washington.
Very scary.
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Just curious...how do you define 'discipline'?
Yours is not just an opinion, it's an underlying
I agree most children and teenagers are good.
It's a shame that we can't disagree with one another without getting personal. Maybe it's just the nature of the beast when highly opinionated folks share their views with people not accepting of them.
I, for one, have read nearly every post ddnlj has made since coming over here to this board. She's had her share of misfortune, and then some. Maybe you have too, but elect not to share that with just anyone. And let me say this, I don't necessarily think this is the forum to do that, so in no way am I knocking you for that.
I too, hope nothing unexpected or bad happens to yourself, or anyone else for that matter. But believe me, things happen to all of us that we didn't see coming. You may change your opinion of health care one day, and let's just hope it's not too late by then for you to be able to get proper care if you desperately need it. Do you ever budge from a preconceived notion or stance? Are you never open to any ideas that differ from yours? Are you so rigid and stern in your beliefs that you will always shun any idea from the left, even if it may make perfectly logical sense to at least be somewhat open-minded to the idea?
I don't plan on quitting
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