Good President or Bad, Obama will do one GREAT thing.

Jarod

Jarod

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If Obama is elected president it will show the down and out black people of this nation that racism is NOT as bad as many assume and that it is possable to do ANYTHING.

I know that Senator Obama is not a "typical" black American, he is not a decendant of slavery as many are... but it will still mean something.

Hopefully it would change the focus of affirmative action from being race based to economically based.

It would certantly give an argument to the anti-AA people that AA is no longer needed.
 
So the only thing he will accompolish is based on the chance happenstance of his skin color ?
amazing...
 
uscitizen said:
So the only thing he will accompolish is based on the chance happenstance of his skin color ?
amazing...
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I did not say that would be the only thing he would accomplish, I am saying it is one of the things he would accomplish almost for sure.
 
AA is needed.. Here in the deep south white people need to be brow beaten with it.... too many idiots left in the world.. Jena ringin any bells...
 
I think we need programs for the poor to get a leg up. I dont think we need programs for black people to get a leg up anymore.
 
Jarod said:
If Obama is elected president it will show the down and out black people of this nation that racism is NOT as bad as many assume and that it is possable to do ANYTHING.

I know that Senator Obama is not a "typical" black American, he is not a decendant of slavery as many are... but it will still mean something.

Hopefully it would change the focus of affirmative action from being race based to economically based.

It would certantly give an argument to the anti-AA people that AA is no longer needed.
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Too late Powell and Rice already showed racism is not as bad as many assumed.

AA should go, it is outdated and getting a position in a job should not be based on race anymore than it should be based on poverty level, it should be based on ability.
 
"Too late Powell and Rice already showed racism is not as bad as many assumed."

Huh?

When were they elected to anything on a national level?
 
Liberano said:
Too late Powell and Rice already showed racism is not as bad as many assumed.

AA should go, it is outdated and getting a position in a job should not be based on race anymore than it should be based on poverty level, it should be based on ability.
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Several points.

Powell and Rice were appointed not elected, and they serve(d) a white boss.

The problem with doing away with forcing advantages for the poor is that there are already HUGE advantages for the rich, REGARDLESS OF ABILITY.
 
Dungheap said:
What a crock of shit. Racism is dead because a half-black guy gets elected president? Please.
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You know Ive actually heard that as a serious argument before.. Hes not black.. hes only half black.. It was pointed out by my Anti AA republican friend too..
 
I agree it will not mean Racism is dead, only that it is much better than it was in the past and that it is possable to overcome racism.

Obama's wife is really black, and once many southerners see that, Obama will likely loose some support.
 
Yes they were appointed but it comes to the same thing, Bush got reelected despite those appointments and not a thing racist was said against them or Bush for those appointments.

JC Watts got elected in the south, that alone does more to dispell racism from it's strongest stereotyped area than Obama would winning nationally and losing in many states.
 
Liberano said:
Yes they were appointed but it comes to the same thing, Bush got reelected despite those appointments and not a thing racist was said against them or Bush for those appointments.

JC Watts got elected in the south, that alone does more to dispell racism from it's strongest stereotyped area than Obama would winning nationally and losing in many states.
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Are you seriously saying that being appointed and governed by a white man is the same as being elected and not having a boss?
 
I wish a gay Jewish, half-black, half-hispanic Republican got elected prez so lefties would shut up on stupid racism BS for all eternity.
 
Liberano said:
Yes they were appointed but it comes to the same thing, Bush got reelected despite those appointments and not a thing racist was said against them or Bush for those appointments.

JC Watts got elected in the south, that alone does more to dispell racism from it's strongest stereotyped area than Obama would winning nationally and losing in many states.
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Like I said; you continue to out-stupid yourself. Take a look at the Harold Ford race. Watts was a CONGRESSMAN. Senator is a state-wide election.

"Bush got re-elected despite those appointments" - how can someone be that dense?
 
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