Obama!
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- hallelujah0
people are like dogs that have been kicked too much... afraid to hope
- so true.vespa
- some of your parents must have really done a number on youhallelujah
- redant0
Obama may not be a true African American but his wife is I forgot about that.
- creez0
obama is a good man
- tasty0
Lloyd you will never have to worry about falling above the $250K income line that Obama wants to put in place.
Why? Because you don't have a job or seem to be pursuing one by the amount BS you post on here.
- _niko0
Wooooooohooooooooo!!!!! it's the dawn of a new future.
I just wish they would focus on Obama the man, not Obama the african-american.
He's half Kenyan, half American who grew up in Hawaii. His American experience is closer to that of other first generation Americans than to that of African Americans like Al sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Oprah so why do we need to see them every 10 seconds.Who gives a fuck if he's African-american, Irish-american, Italian-American, Mexican-American or whatever.
He's a great man period.
- Amicus0
I sure as shit hope that Obama lives up to all our hopes for him.
:)
- lowimpakt0
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world…
"Television news bulletins across the world have been reporting the story of Barack Obama's US presidential victory.
People in the Japanese city of Obama reacted with joy to his election, as did Indonesian children at the school he attended and Barack Obama's grandmother in Kenya was clearly delighted.
Many were not short of words of advice for the new US President - from Afghanistan and Israel to Gaza and Iran. "
- JazX0
2 years from now, you'll all say, "wow this guy actually sucks, even though he looks like he fits into that slacker, liberal role, I'll take another dose of Bush, because my taxes are through the roof"
- I love how you think you have this incredible insight that no one else has, it's cute when you are incorrect all the time.DrBombay
- JazX0
You guys bring up a good point, he has little in common with most blacks because his family doesn't have that same slave historical past. I don't say that negatively, but having grown up with a lot of blacks, it's MUCH different. Much more in common with an educated African is you were to ask me. Having lived in Namibia and Sud Afrika for an extended period of time. In fact, a Zulu friend E-mailed me after the electoin making light of Obama. Kenya is notoriously known for corruption. Go do a search on 'Focus on Africa' of the BBC. Kept me alive for two years on shortwave.
- tasty0
there were 2 point in his speech last night that made me feel moved.
1) when he spoke about Ann-Nixon Cooper, the woman who had seen the country meet so many milestones with her own two eyes from 1 generation past slavery to the election of a man who is mixed.
It shows we have progressed as a nation - beyond color and are reaching toward improvement with the candidate that the majority of America believed in.
2) (and this excerpt) Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let us remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House - a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty, and national unity. Those are values we all share, and while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, We are not enemies, but friends...though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn - I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.
- I was moved by the whole thing.hallelujah
- not surprisingly, I wepthallelujah
- CALLES0
BREAKING NEWS!
I HEard Oliver Stone Is Already Working On The Script For His Next Movie
B.O.
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- vespa0
Just stumbled across this:
"As recently as 1967, sixteen US states from Delaware to Texas had laws banning interracial couples."
- skt0
'having grown up with a lot of blacks'
you are a fucking tool jazx.
- "I am one of JazX friends from Africa. I am a black"
mikotondria3 - I guess you could ask flavorful, he's about the only to know my old stomping groundsJazX
- I've known tons of bigots that grew up in the ghetto. It doesn't give you a license to be a redneck.DrBombay
- I didn't say that, I said I grew up with them, understanding the mentality that exists is keyJazX
- //yeah, all black people are exactly the same.DrBombay
- your average U.S. AA doesn't act very much like Obama, that I can see. No one I knowJazX
- I know tons of intelligent professional black people, so to me, you are an average bigot.DrBombay
- hey, you're out line, Obama the sheperd is looking for you. Go back to the flock.JazX
- "I am one of JazX friends from Africa. I am a black"
- JazX0
same to you skt
- _salisae_0
when i was beginning my middle school years my family's residence was such that we were situated just across the school district line from my friends. i heard story after frightening story about the mostly black school i was scheduled to attend. i was so worried i made my mom lie about my address and drive me to a bus stop near my dad's work that shuttled me to the 'white' school.
my plan went well except i forgot to memorize the falsified address and when the teacher passed around a card for us to write down our info i got so nervous i wrote a probably very strange address. i was called to the dean's office where they asked me plainly .. 'what is your address?'. my bottom lip started to shake and i just broke down in tears.
i had been in the middle of a math test but they went ahead and shipped me off to the other school that very day.
i thought i'd be locked up in a locker by crazy rednecks. intimidated by blacks, etc etc. but what i actually found was that these people knew how to have a good time. they didn't look me up and down to determine how much my parents had spent on my clothes .. they had no concern for that kind of status whatsoever and i was able to just be myself. which, at that age was a tremendous gift.
when i see black people, who have been subjected to being treated as sub-humans rejoicing for obama's win it makes me cry from a very deep place in my heart.
- Helluva story, salisae. :)
Truth will always bubble to the top.harlequino
- Helluva story, salisae. :)
- DrBombay0
your friend is an idiot; if because there is a lot of corruption in kenya he slights obama because he is half-kenyan.
- Contrary, he's a ZA Zulu with a PhD currently working in Dubai. he's making fun of Obama for being part KenyanJazX
- You've obviously know little about the hatred between African countries that persists to this day. No likey like.JazX
- and somehow that makes this guy intelligent, I see.DrBombay
- He spent time in East Africa, it's corrupt as sh*t, so he made light of Obama being a halfbreed and in politics.JazX
- and you think that is intelligent. I'm just making an observation here.DrBombay
- that all depends on your slantJazX
- you think it is cool to judge someone on their heritage. That's a great slant.DrBombay
- that's his commentary on the situation. it's laughable to a ZuluJazX
- http://www.loopkit.c…JazX
- ukit0
Obama has the advantage of understanding many different points of view. He's half black but was raised by his white grandparents, Harvard law but spent time in the 3rd world growing up, Christian but his dad was Muslim. I see that experience as a plus.
- vespa0
Mixed Race Icons: Bob Marley
- zaq0
He won his presidency not as a black American but as a reasoning American who happens to be black.
- very true.sea_sea
- too muchcreez
- Not if you ask Black people.404NotFound
- um he's just as much black as he is white....ppl just pick the minority. Amazing is amazing regardlesstedismyfav
- by pick I mean choose to call him black when they could just as easily call him white.tedismyfav