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Obama to NAACP: Sacrifice of Others "Led me Here"
NBC New York ^
| Thu, Jul 16, 2009
| PHILIP ELLIOTT
Posted on 07/16/2009 8:21:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:23:22 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: nickcarraway
He said that the African-American child is about five times as likely as a white child to be sent to jail. Why did he mention 'child' here? Odd?
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:27:17 PM PDT
by
rawhide
To: nickcarraway
Here's your political sacrifices, Mr. Obama.
FAR more Black children are aborted than Whites or Hispanics.
Are you a Racist?
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:31:40 PM PDT
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:32:12 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(FR....Monthly Donors Wanted. I Upped My Monthly....Now, Up Yours.)
To: nickcarraway; trussell
President Barack Obama on Thursday traced his historic rise to power to the vigor and valor of black civil rights leaders,... Apparently Obama's honky roots didn't take hold.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:33:23 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: nickcarraway
There's a reason the Little Rock Nine defied a governor and a mob," Orval Eugene Faubus was a six-term Democratic Governor of Arkansas
he cultivated ties with leaders of Arkansas's Democratic Party, particularly with progressive reform Governor Sid McMath
In the 1954 campaign Faubus was compelled to defend his attendance at the defunct northwest Arkansas Commonwealth College in Mena, as well as his early political upbringing. Commonwealth College had been formed by leftist academic and social activists, some of whom later were revealed to have had close ties with the Communist Party United States of America.
The 1954 election made Faubus sensitive to attacks from the political right. It has been suggested that this sensitivity contributed to his later stance against integration (YEAH, RIGHT!) when he was challenged by segregationist elements within his own party.
Though Faubus later lost general popularity as a result of his stand against desegregation, at the time he was included among the "Ten Men in the World Most Admired by Americans", according to the Gallup Poll for 1958.
Beyond initial matters of racial integration, Faubus always was regarded as a progressive.
While he was still an outcast from black leaders, Faubus nevertheless won a large percent of the black vote. In 1964, when he easily defeated the Republican Winthrop Rockefeller, Faubus secured 81 percent of the black vote.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:35:35 PM PDT
by
kcvl
Faubus's father, Sam Faubus, provided him with an early political education. During the early part of the century socialist causes were popular in the rural mountains of Arkansas. Sam Faubus was a poor hill farmer who became active locally in socialist causes and publicly advocated for women's suffrage, abolition of the poll tax, formed a Socialist Party of America local amongst his neighbors, and wrote lengthy essays in favor of socialism for the local Madison County newspaper.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:38:26 PM PDT
by
kcvl
To: nickcarraway
"We have to say to our children, 'Yes, if you're African-American, the odds of growing up amid crime and gangs are higher. Yes, if you live in a poor neighborhood, you will face challenges that someone in a wealthy suburb does not,'" Obama said, returning to his tough-love message familiar from his two-year presidential campaign. "But that's not a reason to get bad grades, that's not a reason to cut class, that's not a reason to give up on your education and drop out of school," he said. "No one has written your destiny for you. Your destiny is in your hands and don't you forget that." Brother Love's Travelin' Salvation Show.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:43:03 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(If you vote for Democrats, you are engaging in UnAmerican Activity.)
To: workerbee
I watched this speech and he scared me. He seemed angry and almost about to spit. This sent chills up my spine!
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:48:45 PM PDT
by
tndarlin
To: nickcarraway
I read it. No mention of why if you are black you arte more likely to live in the ghetto. No mention of why you are more likely to be incarcerated. No mention of personal responsibility.
I have no education past high school, I have been a drug dealer (dozen years ago) and a pimp. I applied myself and gave some thought to my personal destiny and at my mid thirties, I have a good career and a great life. No silver spoon here even if my skin is white.
The only thing holding the ghetto back is a sharp dose of “Holy Crap, do I want to live like that?” On the other hand the government could go broke giving away money and not change anything.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:50:37 PM PDT
by
When do we get liberated?
(They must think we are stupid. They want to be green, I want to be gault.)
To: nickcarraway
This all goes along with Rush’s assessment that Obama is here to punish America.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:55:14 PM PDT
by
1-Eagle
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To: tndarlin
He took on a real Jeremiah Wright persona, did he not? Right down to the ‘preacher’ sing-song (don’t know what that’s called).
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:58:01 PM PDT
by
constitutiongirl
("Duty is ours. Consequences are God's."- General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson)
To: When do we get liberated?
No mention of why if you are black you arte more likely to live in the ghetto. No mention of why you are more likely to be incarcerated. No mention of personal responsibility Just a guess, but I'm perrrrty sure there was a tacit understanding that it was the White Man's fault. (if not George Bush, specifically).
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posted on
07/16/2009 9:02:17 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(If you vote for Democrats, you are engaging in UnAmerican Activity.)
To: constitutiongirl; tndarlin
Just keeping up his street cred.
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posted on
07/16/2009 9:03:23 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(If you vote for Democrats, you are engaging in UnAmerican Activity.)
To: nickcarraway
The sacrifice of Otters ?
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posted on
07/16/2009 9:11:58 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: tndarlin
I know, I watched the speech too and had the same reaction- it’s probably his verbal spanking to the black community before he hands out the welfare jelly roll;icing and all.
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posted on
07/16/2009 9:21:54 PM PDT
by
MissDairyGoodnessVT
(Mac Conchradha - "Skeagh mac en chroe"- Skaghvicencrowe)
To: tndarlin
I watched this speech I saw some of it too. Notice how he tried to impersonate Rev. Wright and Martin L. King, Jr.? His act needs a lot of work because, as you say, it came off as 'scary'.
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posted on
07/16/2009 9:58:40 PM PDT
by
budwiesest
(The truth is about to set us free. Won't that be nice?)
To: nickcarraway
He never seems humbled or honored to have his office, never.
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:04:13 PM PDT
by
roses of sharon
(It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt: Hoffer)
To: nickcarraway
"Sacrifice of Others "Led me Here" Montezuma and a few pharaohs said that, too.
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posted on
07/16/2009 10:33:06 PM PDT
by
sig226
(Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
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