Since his dad is a pastor, he needs to start giving his dad references from the other black pastors that have come out against Obama’s stand on gay marriage.
You might be surprised at how many white people are just as clueless as the black people. And I think is it because they only get their news from one place...NBC,CBS,ABC or their local newspaper. When you read other forums, more conservative ones, you can really see the bias of the major networks. I gasp sometimes at what/how they report stories.
Sorry I don’t have an answer as to how to reach these people other than one at a time when the opportunity arises.
I hate to say this...but our naive nature....sometimes clinging to some “gossip” that pretends to be news that comes out of ABC or CBS, or CNN...makes us into zombies.
You have to sit down...read through independent news sources, and eventually come to a position on just about everything now. You can’t trust the nightly news folks. Same for Time and NewsWeak....same for the Washington Post and New York Times. This is asking a lot out of people....thinking and grasping at things that are generally beyond their neighborhood or their normal lives.
I don’t really know what the solution is to educating older black (or white) Dems. They honestly think their party is on the side of virtue and they never examine anything that the party says - or doesn’t say, but which is understood.
A big part of this is because older people of any color listen to the MSM with much more dedication than younger people, and since older people vote, the MSM (even though it is populated by much younger Dems) has a lot of clout among the unreflective Dem voters.
Maybe encourage Fox to try to stay at least a little to the right and encourage them to get their news from Fox instead of CNN?
The MSM almost ignored the probably millions of people who turned out on Weds. to support freedom of speech, but had so many reporters at various locations to watch the “gay kiss-in” that the police had to be called. So people who get their news from this source are going to get a very distorted view and will be very hard to deal with. Maybe they’ll all have to be one-on-one, like Lloyd Marcus’ dad.
He talks real nice, but he never delivers.
The guy doesn’t sound like he was much of a pastor.
Ping
Being an American is far better than being an African-American. Does not matter what you look like, choose being an American, you will be amongst friends.
Hey RummyChick, there were a number of black folks at the CFA I went to on Wednesday evening.
I don’t count, I hate that, but there was more than I expected and most were Husband & Wife with a couple of kids.
One older couple was there with a couple of grand kids. They were near the end of the inside line when me and my two year old grand kid got there. The kids spent more than a few minutes as the line moved making those cut up faces at each other. Little kids can have the darndest good time and get oh so tickled making faces at each other.
Bodies freed, minds still enslaved.
Taught by the masters that all who are truly free are the Enemy, either because they are “white”, or because they have sucked up to “white”.
This kind of slavery cannot be solved by proclamations or even civil wars. Each individual must first desire freedom, then be willing to sacrifice the false security of slavery (”do as you’re told, and you will be fed, housed and clothed”), and fight a civil war of the mind.
Most, I fear, will never do this. Many would be horrified at the thought, or call me racist for suggesting it.
Alas...whoever it was that said Blacks were “bred to servitude, and suited to no other station” was nearly right. His errors were (1) imputing that to the whole, and (2) excluding “whites” and others who, whether from fear or sloth, would gladly accept the security of chains. There are such in my own family.
Maybe what is needed is a new black media outlet. Something like a black FOX network. (BloX, or BX perhaps?) I hear Murdoch is putting up a new spanish language latino channel, will it lean conservative?
“Why is the truth not getting to a majority of black Americans?”
Because race pimps like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are seen as leaders of the Black community instead of men like Allen Keys, Allen West, and Jesse Peterson.
Tell your dad it is governmental discrimination against people stating Christian Ideals.
Lloyd you are SUCH a patriot! Keep up God’s work of educating those around you, as I am, and don’t let any fear of offending someone stop you.
I went to the Chick Fil A in Winter Park on Wednesday and saw SEVERAL black people. I was heartened.
I heard Joel Hunter had just left before I walked in. What a fraud he is. That he announced he would still support Obama after he came out for gay marriage, but then shows up at the CFA to show his support. He’s a hypocrit of the highest order!!
RummyChick,
Hi! At least your father is willing to listen to you. My father is a 76 yr old retired Union Steward who has voted dem for his entire life. His idea of news is MSNBC and his fav program is Rachael Maddow and Ed Schultz. Our conversations regarding political situations usually end in arguments with both of us not speaking to each other for several months. *Sigh*. I’ve finally set boundaries and sent several silent prayers of thanks up to God that he lives in a very conservative state. Hugs to you and your dad!
Has he consulted the pastors, Rev. Sharpton and Rev. Jackson of what their opinion is of Obama?
Being a pastor, black or otherwise, does not make one have common sense, automatically. I know of a Catholic priest and pastor who, rumor has it, voted for Obama in 2008.
How many Blacks still think the Tea Party folks at the DC Rally yelled the N word at the Democrat Black Caucus Members who were walking with Pelosi into the Capitol Building? It never happened. There was no proof that it ever happened.
Breitbart offered $100,000 to anyone who could prove the allegations and nobody collected a dime.
Now we have Dingy Harry telling a whopper about Romney, a bold faced lie with nothing to support it, and it becomes an Urban Legend. Democrats know they can lie with impunity because their supporters live under a false ideology.
Great story lloyd, and thanks for posting RummyChick.