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Is it true or not that "black folks" (and I mean specifically lower income African Americans who are the Democratic base) generally dismiss those blacks who have incorporated themselves into "white culture", meaning success in and matriculation into "white" schools, jobs, neighborhoods, etc.?
I'm a black man that is not only mildly successful, but college educated (as were my parents and my only child), work with damn near all white folks at my job, and live in a majority white city AND neighborhood.
Can't say that i've been dismissed by anyone. I don't have any problem with my people for the most part. Do i like every single black person in America? No. But so what. But then, i'm not "incorporated" into "white culture" (whatever the hell that means) either. I'm solidly black, and will remain so for as long as i live. Being successful doesn't have a damn thing to do with how black i am.
I'm a black man that is not only mildly successful, but college educated (as were my parents and my only child), work with damn near all white folks at my job, and live in a majority white city AND neighborhood.
Can't say that i've been dismissed by anyone. I don't have any problem with my people for the most part. Do i like every single black person in America? No. But so what. But then, i'm not "incorporated" into "white culture" (whatever the hell that means) either. I'm solidly black, and will remain so for as long as i live. Being successful doesn't have a damn thing to do with how black i am.
Exactly.....theres a whole lotta white people I dont like, you know?
Are conservatives now to be excluded from invoking the dreams of MLK by your tribe too?
Of course not. Free country. Except that all this "MLK invoking" is quite suspicious, seeing as how conservatives weren't so enamored of him when he was alive. But now that he's dead, they can't get enough of him.
That's just me being magnanimous. In truth, it's not just suspicious, it's bullsh*t. That's why i dismiss it outright when i hear it.
............... So, why the disconnect between his actual life and the life people think he led? Is he purposefully misleading people? Or are his supporters on CD just promoting an untrue image for some reason?
The myth is easier to market than the real product. Yes, the misleading is intentional, be it by his handlers, himself, or both. Obama's supporters perpetuate the myth because the reality is extremely unappealing.
I don't have time to address all your questions at the moment, but I don't think the insurance statements are necessarily contradictory. .
Janny Scott, a NY Times reporter and author of a biography about Obama's mom disagrees:
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The book concludes that although Mr. Obama often suggested that Ms. Dunham “was denied health coverage because of a pre-existing condition, it appears from her correspondence that she was only denied disability coverage.” Ms. Dunham, an anthropologist who worked on development projects in Indonesia, died in 1995, less than a year after her diagnosis.
The book concluded she was not denied a single medical claim. She was denied a disability claim for living expenses because she was dishonest about having been diagnosed with cancer previous to changing jobs. They still paid her medical claims, but not her disability. Very reasonable.
Let's see what the experts think about Obama's story:
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Robert J. Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at Harvard, said that if an alternate narrative about Ms. Dunham’s dispute had been discovered during the 2008 campaign “people would have considered it a significant error.”
Or had it been a conservative, it would have just been called a lie.
Once again, you folks don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Thank you!
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You think that you get "street cred" by going to a black church? One of the stupidest things i've ever heard. Street cred? LMAO....some of you have active imaginations. I'm black and i don't even know what the hell that means in political terms as it relates to black people.
I'm black, and I don't even know what street cred is. I always thought it was a white thing.
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How would "street cred" help him with black people in Mound Bayou, Mississippi? Or Mount Airy, North Carolina? Most blacks don't live in Chicago and Detroit. You really believe that black folks in Seattle, Washington knew that he attended Rev. Wright's church? Really?
Knew or cared.........
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I mean, these posters using terms like "black enough" as if they have the faintest clue about what that even means. SMH...whatever.
These race based threads are getting more laughable by the day.
So.... whats the problem with President Obama's upbringing? Did I miss something? I'm pretty sure most people know who and how he was raised. I mean its all in wikipedia for crying out loud. Also its been dissected hundreds of times on this forum it gets kinda of boring.
LOL...expect the race baiters to be along shortly demanding you be sanctioned...
riiiiiight
Both of you(You and Detroit) need to stop it.
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