If Obama gets elected, what changes will happen in Black America?

[nat_at772]

Originally Posted by ATLater

See the problem with the kind of parenting you're suggesting is that you will actually have to have a relationship with your kids...you actually have to talk to them and make sure they are mature enough to understand and handle the freedoms that you are giving them...all kid develop at different speeds...some 12 years olds are more socially aware then 16 year olds...but in order for you to know how much freedom your child can handle you have to have a relationship with them...parents today don't want to talk to their kids, answer questions, teach them things....they just want to believe if they keep their kids away from rap music, internet porn and violent video games then they've done their job as parents.

Yeah I guess you're right - me and my mom had a very good relationship so I guess that's why it worked. I remember in the 8th grade one of my friends mom came over furious because I had lent her a VC Andrews book. She said she didn't allow her daughter to read such filth. I thought that was funny considering her daughter was the first among our clique to lose her virginity - didn't tell her mom that though.

I'm not saying I'm going to place pornos in my DVD case or start blasting rap music but I think it's about a balance. You can't protect your kids from the outside world; so IMO it's best to educate them in your own home and let them form opinions on their own rather than adopt those of their friends because they don't know any better.

[texdav]

I think evry little will change other than one more charge of racism in politcs will have died. In fact I think that his candidacy has opened up racism in all races more than it has ever been discussed before.He like every president will come under the gun and that will mean that whites can call racism just as blacks can.I mean ;there was probably more racist calling in the democratic primary than in the general elction at this time.Tyhe clintons went from heroes on race to the villians very quickly.

[rebajay]

Originally Posted by delusianne

Exactly right.

Classism is terrible and one of the things our FOUNDING FATHERS(anyone remember them?) came here to flee. However, think about it....what better way to promote classism than by discouraging capitalism by promoting socialism? Redistribution of wealth is socialism and UNAMERICAN. Just ask the immigrant business owners you know, most of them still believe this is the greatest country in the world because everyone, believe it or not, can be successful. Just ask the presidential candidate who happens to be bi-racial.

[miu]

Obama is an atypical black American. He has no black angst. His ancestors weren't brought over to America as slaves. He's more the hard working recent black immigrants like the ones from Haiti and Barbadoes. And none of thoese groups like to be grouped with the blacks with ancestors that came to America as slaves. In addition, Obama had the benefits of a private high school, Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He always spent his early years in Indonesia. So he's not a true role model for the average black American... except for having an absentee black father.