Posted on 07/02/2008 1:08:52 PM PDT by Coffee200am
Friend, yes, I am white. Big deal. That has nothing to do with the argument. I stated that 99.9% of blacks will vote for Obama and I still believe that. I see few blacks, maybe military and a few solid conservatives. BUT, I do not believe for one minute that McCain is going to pull 20% of blacks. Hell, he will probably have a hard time getting 20% of anyone’s vote! If J.C. Watts were running, I would have voted for him in a NY minute. BUT, if he votes for Obama, I would never give him the time of day of my vote.
While your statement "While I agree that many a white murdered blacks with impunity" may have been a summation of the world in 1900 or 1950 it's not a very good summation of the world we live in.
White is not a race, it's the background color I guess.
I was, until I learned more about him. Now I see it as a further extension of a lot of negative trends. Sad. Wish that we could have had a better black candidate in his place.
I am white. I don't give a damn what Obama's skin color is. I am prepared to vote for whom I think represents me. Conservative, with family values and worried about the state of the world which I will leave to my children.
If anyone is thinking, even in the least, of voting for Obama simply because of his skin color, then they are just as racist as anyone thinking of not voting for him because of skin color. His agenda, and political and world views are why I will not be voting for him.
Period.
The best example I can think of is MLK. His most famous speech dreamed of a time when his children would be judged on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
How many are truly doing that with Obama today? I personally know people whose world view and family values are in direct contrast to Obama's, but are going to vote for him simply because he is "black".
How funny... I’m on vaca on Nantucket, enjoying the breeze on the porch, and got to that line... I was semi-interested to that point, then it lost me... He’s FULL OF SHIT... end of reading
I did a research paper on this one time, I believe that most criminals prey on those in their own community and the crossover is about 20 % for blacks and 20% whites committing crimes outside of their own community. I will look up the figures again to be sure.
Of course, if you practice identity politics, like they do, it’s racist... If I vote for McCain cause he’s like me, I’m racist... If they vote for H cause he’s black, they’re creating history... How disgusting
“Yes,its a common misconception that blacks overwhelmingly thought OJ was innocent.Not so.”
I’ve never heard a black person claim he was innocent. I’ve seen much glee at the fact that he got off, though.
Supporting his acquittal because of a presumption of innocence is one thing. Supporting the acquittal of a murderer because he was black and his victim was white is just plain racism in one of its most evil forms.
‘The attitude was”Y’all have used the system to YOUR advantage for years. Now one of US gets over and you want to go into hysterics”’
Yes, for some crazy reason we thought our society had moved beyond that, say, 50+ years ago.
Haven't some of these old white racists been tried three or four times now to get a guilty plea? That's hardly proof of a conspiracy to let off whites. The killer of Medger Evers was tried twice in the 1960s (hung juries) and retried in 1994, and convicted!
That seems to be evidence of "the system" going out of it's way to bring justice to blacks murdered by whites.
Exactly
It’s always 90%... For Gore, Kerry, all Libs... It’ll be closer to 98% this time.
I concur with your analysis.
Looking back as a white kid growing up in the Fifties and Sixties,I can recall when the news would anounce the acquital of a killer of a civil rights worker in the South.Do you think ANY white adult ever got indignant at that injustice?No,not in my redneck of the woods,thats for sure.
I also blame LAPD and the Garcetti for blowing a sure conviction.Marcia Clark was a disaster and the Mark Fuhrman fiasco doomed it for good.
I am not voting for Obama at all. I am merely stating that I am proud that he could have the chance to be elected. While I am Conservative, I am still black. I cannot separate myself from that or what it means. One’s experiences in this country is shaped by many things, color being one of them. If you are one of those “color blind” people, then G-d bless you. Most of us are not. I DO see color and what it means, but I don’t think it is a bad thing to acknowledge the differences of our citizens. Its what makes us great. I am pro-life, pro-gun rights, pro-off shore drilling and Obama is anti- all of that. It’s not that I care what his color is, but what this means for us as a country. It is evidence of how far we’ve come.
Yes,and its about time these killers were federally prosecuted for the crimes they got away with years ago.Looks like Georgia is getting ready to reopen the 1946 Moore lynching.
The sad thing is that I'm sure there are any number of weaker cases against black men that we could ALL (well, maybe most) rally behind, if they were brought to public attention.
The good thing is that they aren't anonymous psycho killers being let go to roam the streets. I'm unlikely to date OJ, and equally unlikely to travel in R. Kelly's circles.
But the actions that are being supported by this kind of amnesty...
We have been married going on 20 years and have two beautiful talented children. It hasn’t always been easy, there are still some knuckleheads out there (black and white) but we are still making it. Thank G-d for His Grace.
No,society has not”moved beyond all that”.Lots of these old angers just fester and marinate until the appropriate time when they explode with vehemence.
Here is the irony of the whole OJ phenomenon-many blacks,especially black women,were angered by his obvious attraction to white blonde females.He was seen as a joke in many quarters of the black community.Yet when he got into trouble he had no problem playing the race card!
Personally,I felt little emotion at the acquital.Reason-I was just not too sympathetic toward the whole Brown-Simpson crowd who seemed like a bunch of drug taking,hedonistic selfish boors.Not that I believe that justifies murder but violating basic moral principles can often lead people to do things once considered outside the bounds of civilized behavior.
Also, every black guy I know is well-known for whining about the price of arugola. (that was sarcasm, for those in Rio Linda...)
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