Posted on 11/23/2008 8:11:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The day after Barack Obama was elected president, Kari Fulton heard a white colleague proclaim that racism in America is dead. She cringed, worrying it might be a sign of flagging interest in the fight against discrimination.
“In reality, racism is still very much alive and well,” said Fulton, who graduated last year from Howard University, a historically black college in the nation’s capital.
Obama’s election has generated a euphoria among African Americans that is palpable. For some, the weight of history has finally been eased after generations of struggling for equality. But amid the postelection glow of racial harmony lurks a sobering fact: Racial disparities persist - in just about every measurable form - and they won’t simply melt away because the nation has an African American president.
Fulton, 23, was part of a group of young African American activists from across the country who worked to register and turn out young African_American voters in the presidential election. The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation brought the group together shortly after the election to learn about converting their enthusiasm into ongoing political activism.
“Election Day was just the beginning,” said Fulton, who lives in Washington and works as an organizer for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative. “People don’t expect President Obama to be a superhero. We have to solve our own problems.”
The problems are significant.
About a quarter of African Americans live in poverty - nearly three times the rate for white people-at a time when rising budget deficits and expensive corporate bailouts are going to leave little federal money for anti-poverty_programs. The federal budget deficit is likely to hit a record $1 trillion next year.
African_American adults are less likely than white people to have college degrees and more likely to be in prison.
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I must be living under a rock because I’ve never felt guilty that I’m Caucasian! Am I delusional? No one gave me a choice!
I never bought or sold human beings; that’s reprehensible to me.
Also, I believe I’ve been taxed to pay for welfare, Head Start and every other government program offered to improve the lives of the needy in the black community.
Can anyone tell me that the efforts put forth have brought about a noticeable and positive difference? I welcome such data.
From my perspective, if it’s documented that 95% of black voters cast their votes for Barack Hussein Obama, they have surrendered their right to accuse Caucasians of racism.
It’s done. They’ve showed their hand.
We won’t put up with the false accusations one more day.
stop racial warming!
Very true. This bubble is going to burst and there will be a mighty explosion when it does.
It is back to reparations and beating up on whiteys for actions their ancestors did or did not do decades, centuries ago and making them pay. Also, some want to portion jobs and government staffings based on ethnic makeup in the local area like the Hutus and the Tutsis did in Rwanda right before the genocide. Well those laws for civil rights should work for whiteys too which some people will not like.
Proverbs 30:15-16—
15 The leech has two daughters, “Give,” “Give.” There are three things that will not be satisfied, Four that will not say, “Enough”:
16 Sheol, and the barren womb, Earth that is never satisfied with water, And fire that never says, “Enough.”
You are welcome!
I thought for sure with Obama in the white house and everyone getting free healthcare, gas and government paid mortgages, blues music would dry up and the race industry collapse.
I was wrong apparently.
He's right. Living around Detroit I can tell you with certainty, black people are the most racist hate filled people I've ever encountered.
The ONLY good thing to come out of this election. I never want to here about discrimination again!
END Affirmative Action NOW !!!! Theres no longer any need for it.........plus its RACIST !!!!!!!!
END Affirmative Action NOW !!!! Theres no longer any need for it.........plus its RACIST !!!!!!!!
“Most of us had nothing to do with slavery or the KKK”
I don’t know anyone who has had anything to do with slavery or even the KKK.
Once a week I force a black to drop out of school./s
Um, you're spelling was just a tad off --> * R-E-P-A-T-R-I-A-T-I-O-N-S *
The second sentence is true for living under ANY administration regardless of party or ethnicity.
Thanks for finally waking up to reality.
It is a racist demagogue, and it's job is stirring up trouble, inventing grievances, and disrupting civilised society.
and only minorities can express “pride” in their race. If whites do it it is racist.
Well, since they ran a racist’s campaign and continue the racist’s activities too this day, no wonder the racial divide is getting larger. What do you expect? Any sane person would realize that. Oh, wait, I am white, thus not sane. I must be racist. Must be since I don’t like Obama, because I don’t like socialists and communists.
LOL ! Free airline tickets to Liberia ?
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