Powerful & Poignant Speech from The President Today

[bobabode]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv...o.html?hpid=z1

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...rtant/?hpid=z1

[Oerets]

I see nothing wrong with what he said today. Agree completely!


Barney

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Oerets

I see nothing wrong with what he said today. Agree completely!


Barney

Thanks, Barney. That means a lot to me.

Some will break out their dog whistles over this. Those who like to listen to Rush Limbaugh will undoubtably adobt his toxic and frankly racist tone over this. Some will decry it with their blinders screwed down tight. No surprise there.

It was a very uplifting and simultaneously sad commentary on race relations in our country.

[barbara]

I thought it was a very thought provoking speech.

[Wasillaguy]

I guess I can't relate. As a white, I always felt welcome in the black neighborhoods of St.Louis when I was growing up.
I'd go over to East St.Louis and complete strangers would be inviting me in and cooking me dinner all the time.

[barbara]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

I guess I can't relate. As a white, I always felt welcome in the black neighborhoods of St.Louis when I was growing up.
I'd go over to East St.Louis and complete strangers would be inviting me in and cooking me dinner all the time.

Did they feel welcome and come to your neighborhood and have complete strangers inviting them in and cooking them dinner all the time?

[Wasillaguy]

Originally Posted by barbara

Did they feel welcome and come to your neighborhood and have complete strangers inviting them in and cooking them dinner all the time?

There was a sarcasm smiley there Barb.
I'll tell you what though. Blacks have been accepted and integrated into virtually every white neighborhood in the country in the last 30-40 years, yet the same areas that were exclusively black then remain that way today. And anyone unlucky enough to get off that wrong exit had better have their prayers up to date.

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

There was a sarcasm smiley there Barb.
I'll tell you what though. Blacks have been accepted and integrated into virtually every white neighborhood in the country in the last 30-40 years, yet the same areas that were exclusively black then remain that way today. And anyone unlucky enough to get off that wrong exit had better have their prayers up to date.

Ask what has been done to improve the neighborhoods? With the only new businesses coming in pay day loans, liquor stores. A real mixing of the cultures by busing for schools was an attempt to create more understanding along with bettering education. But we all see how that was gutted before given a chance.

The poorer areas start at such a lower point they never really get much of a chance.



Barney

[Wasillaguy]

Just saying, if you are to consider Obama's scenario of a white kid, you have to put him in a predominantly black neighborhood that has been plagued by burglaries committed by whites.
Then when the white kid punches the Black-Japanese guy that's following him, the white kid gets shot.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

Just saying, if you are to consider Obama's scenario of a white kid, you have to put him in a predominantly black neighborhood that has been plagued by burglaries committed by whites.
Then when the white kid punches the Black-Japanese guy that's following him, the white kid gets shot.

No you don't. That is not the point at all anyway.


Also, if a white kid were stalked by a black man with a gun and killed he would be in jail. No matter where in the USA it happened.