[shortstop]

If you want to unite people, you talk about what they have in common. If you want to divide people, you talk about what differentiates them.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And if you want people to despise you, give them free stuff.

[BigCinBigD]

If I could talk to the animals. Learn their languages, maybe speak in...

[jessduntno]

It’s time for black men to get jobs, care for their families and STFU about the past. How’s that for a conversation starter?

[villagerjoel]

Time for people to get over themselves in America?

[swain_forkbeard]

Nice point.

We don’t need more talk about race. We need less. Much less.

We don’t need more race-based discrimination from our government. We need Less. Much less.

What we need is more talk about individual freedoms and personal responsibilities, and a government that recognizes those cornerstones of a free people.

[Thrownatbirth]

Burned out on this crap back in the 60's.

[poindexter]

Here’s how the “dialog” goes:

“Say you’re sorry, Whitey!”

“I’m sorry!”

“Apology not accepted. Open your wallet.”

[Bon mots]

[coloradan]

Maybe it’s time for a dialog race... see who can say more without saying anything at all. Obama might win.

[NMEwithin]

Let's judge people on the content of their character...end of discussion.

Skin color doesn't matter

[Arthur McGowan]

Here’s what we should discuss:

The danger of electing angry, bitter, Marxist black people to public office. After we’ve had that discussion, we should discuss the danger of electing angry, bitter, Marxist white people to public office.

[hoosiermama]

Here's my dialog/rant:

My ancestors were abolitionist. They fought on every front to stop slavery. Some where soldiers in the Union army. Other (family legends says) assisted in the Under Ground Railroad.

I have in my possession a copy of “Uncle Tom's Cabin” that my Great grandmother gave to my grandmother when she was a teenager.

Family members felt the blow of the KKK because they were Republican. My own father worked on legal cases against a member of the Klan convicted of murder.

As a child my parents provided a place to swim for visiting African American children when they were not allowed in the public pools. Dad also visited the homes of people who needed legal advice, but didn't want to be seen going into a law office to seek it. We have entertained “blacks” in our home for generations.

I'll be DAMNED if I'm going to apologize for my actions or the actions of my ancestors to some Racist Pimp. I have nothing to feel guilty about and refuse to accept their invalidating manipulating actions as the “truth” for America.

Anyone with any idea on how to form a like minded group of individuals to send our message to those who need to hear it please contact me.

[Canedawg]

There will not be a productive dialogue until blacks in America take responsibility for their own behavior, their poor attitudes and flawed value system, their crumbling cities and neighborhoods, their forsaken children, their broken families, and STOP blaming everyone else for their own failures.

[Christian4Bush]

bump

[the invisib1e hand]

TIME FOR A blah blah blah?

no. it's time for the institutions of gov't and media to quit setting the agenda for the people of America.

[Tupelo]

Dialog? Maybe 25-30 years ago, but not now. Any criticism of African-Americans is now considered hate speech or racist. Words have been eliminated from the common usage and cannot be used. Negro? Black in Spanish is verboten. Colored? Formerly a southern form of respect is verboten. and the infamous N****r? Have any of you watched Blazing Saddles in the past 10 years or so. It has lost it's bite due to PC editing. If Mel Brooks were dead, he would be turning over in his grave. Nope there will be no honest dialog on race. Just the same old same old until the majority becomes sick and tired of being lectured. At that tipping point, "race relations" in this country may become a thing of the past.

[LeonardFMason]

Put “Clayton Bigsby” in charge. He is our only hope. Google his name.

[EyeGuy]

Here is my “dialogue” on race:

The victory is won.

Equality of OPPORTUNITY has existed in America for decades.

[Sparko]

Good point.

As is Lonsberry’s point that there we never have dialogue, only lecture by one side.

So, in the spirit of the current health care debate, here’s a suggestion for Obama, our young internist-trainee in residence:

how about looking at the past as a wound that has been trying to form scar tissue but is constantly picked apart by busy fingers?

Leave it alone and it might heal.

[oblomov]

Obama and Gates’ collaboration on their staged “teaching moment” to spur a “dialogue on race” was an epic fail.