subbie writes:
50 years ago:
Jim Crow
Poll taxes
Separate water fountains for Whites and "Coloreds."
Anti-miscegenation laws
Lynch mobs
Back of the bus
Denial of public accommodations of every sort
et cetera, ad naseum
- Lynch Mobs was a lot longer than 50. The founder of the black holocaust museum James Cameron was the last living survivor of a lynching in 1930 (79 years ago)
- Back of the bus was fixed in
Browder v. Gayle in 1956 (53 years ago)
subbie writes:
Today, we inaugurate an African-American as President of these United States. On this day, let us set aside petty political differences and rejoice at the progress this country has made from its shameful past of hatred and violence against people for no other reason than their melanin levels. This County, 3/4 of whose population is White, has looked past color in making one of the most important decisions the people make. One need not agree with everything that President Obama stands for, nor indeed anything that he stands for, to be proud of what he represents; not a symbol, but proof, of how far we have come in less than a lifetime.
BO is mostly white. I’d say at least as much as those 3/4ths you mentioned.
petrophysics1 writes:
Gee, I thought Barack Obama was a white guy born out of the most corrupt political system in America.
The Democrat Party in Chicago.
Not much to celebrate here.
I'm impressed, the same country with a majority who don't accept the TOE, voted for an empty suit.
I'm looking foward to the Republican landside in 2 years.
Word.
This guy’s cult of personality is better than Kim Jong Il’s cult of personality.
rahvin writes:
the people he has loose associations with (he worked on an education project with Ayers, the two weren't best friends), and the people who have endorsed him without his request or returned support
You aren't judging Obama based on the content of his character.
There are no loose associations in the Chicago Democratic Machine, if you believe there are, I have some beachfront property for sale in Antarctica.
I am judging my former senator based on what he has done and accomplished as a senator and a representative of me in Illinois. Since I cannot think of anything other than being half-black and being in office, I cannot offer any praise, until he does something. I know how politicians from PR Illinois are, and I do not buy the hype.
I guess we should be proud of him just for getting elected. I’ll be proud when he becomes a good president instead of all the kool-aid drinkers praising him for nothing.
My thoughts exactly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP7lUGn7HWk
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