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I think one of the reasons there's this tendency on the part of some Blacks to identify with poor Blacks is because poor Blacks are viewed as being the main victims of white oppression.
you said it 1st if you got a job if you are educated you get called names.
hate is not something people are born doing
it is cultivated by the community in which they live and given focus.
i have a dream
you said it 1st if you got a job if you are educated you get called names.
hate is not something people are born doing
it is cultivated by the community in which they live and given focus.
i have a dream
I'd imagine that such threads will continue to pop up the more desperate folks get. Moreover, the fact that you also started a thread, point, about how Obama's ineligible to run for President makes this thread even more suspect.
If you're wrong about that, it's clear you are throwing as much crap at Obama as you can in hopes that something will stick. If you're RIGHT, it's all moot anyway.
I'd imagine that such threads will continue to pop up the more desperate folks get. Moreover, the fact that you also started a thread, point, about how Obama's ineligible to run for President makes this thread even more suspect.
If you're wrong about that, it's clear you are throwing as much crap at Obama as you can in hopes that something will stick. If you're RIGHT, it's all moot anyway.
I thought the discussion started out really well.
I am thinking of an article I read in Sports Illustrated. It talked about about the guys that would come out of their neighborhoods. They would get fame and fortune, but the neighborhood wouldn't let them go.
They would call them traitors to their people. Some didn't look back and some crashed and burned trying to have a foot in both places. After reading the article I was sad that the struggle had to be there.
So even when these young men and woman try to make a better life, there are those calling them back, pulling them back, trying to make them feel guilt.
I think it's a huge issue. I must be if Sports Illustrated picked it up.
Just want to know peoples opinion. I have many sucessful friends who are African American and they have told me over the years, family and friends have called them uncle Tom's because they hold steady jobs and are educated. Its interesting because I haven't seen these comments directed towards Mr. Obama, I would like to know why.
I don't know, but my guess would be because it's not 1864.
I have heard this my whole life working in heavily populated black communities. Im am very serious, why is he not considered an uncle Tom?
Because Perhaps you don't know nearly as much about Black people as you presume to?
To me, this is just another case of a person assuming that a stereotypical behavior is going to come out, and then falling flat on their face when it doesn't. The only issues you have with Obama's 'blackness'(or better, lack thereof) are coming from from the Media circus and Jesse Jackson(he's still living? ).
(Cue "But I know so many black people who say...!" anecdotal evidence.)
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Well said
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