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View Poll Results: A black president in the future?
Yes 46 67.65%
No 22 32.35%
Voters: 68. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-16-2015, 02:21 PM
 
Location: Kansas
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Yes, we will have another black President in the future.
Surely you are not considering "Uncle Tom"(Uncle Tom | Definition of Uncle Tom by Merriam-Webster) to be "black".

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I want to know why it is important to have a president of any particular skin color. A lot of blacks were real excited when Obama was elected. I guess it was a sort of pride thing. I get that, but also think that focusing on race rather than qualifications is a bad approach.
The black people I know weren't and aren't proud of the "black"-not President. I think it is just something difference than a rich white man which has been the standard.

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Certainly. The black community just needs to put a strong person up there, just like anyone else. Sure, some racists will oppose any black candidate, but as Obama's election demonstrates, the rantings of a minority don't trump the good sense of the majority.

I bet Oprah could win the presidency in 2016 if she announced tomorrow.
I would love to have sense Colin Powell run for President but he is too smart to do that.

Oprah? Then Gail would be the first lady? There is no way I would vote for her. Good grief!
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Old 05-16-2015, 02:22 PM
 
Location: Aztlan
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Don't worry about our approach. Worry about yours.
I have to worry about your approach if it means an unqualified person being elected president. What we do nationally effects all Americans.
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Old 05-16-2015, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Aztlan
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The black people I know weren't and aren't proud of the "black"-not President. I think it is just something difference than a rich white man which has been the standard.
It was preferable to have a rich black man instead?
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Old 05-16-2015, 02:27 PM
 
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I have to worry about your approach if it means an unqualified person being elected president. What we do nationally effects all Americans.
Worry then. For nothing.

You don't get any say so about the black vote, and we ain't taking suggestions.
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Old 05-16-2015, 02:29 PM
 
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This dude is not "black" he is a half breed.
Did your parents teach you to talk like that?

Half breed is a term for animals, not humans.
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Old 05-16-2015, 02:29 PM
 
Location: Aztlan
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Worry then. For nothing.

You don't get any say so about the black vote, and we ain't taking suggestions.
"The black vote"? So much for integration. Y'all just want to self-segregate. I guess nothing was really accomplished during the Civil Rights era. It was all one big phony show.

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Old 05-16-2015, 02:30 PM
 
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Another ignorant Tea Party thread. One minute the Teabaggers are calling him "The Kenyan" really meaning the other word for black people and the next minute he's not even black. The racial purity fixation among conservatives is so disturbing and creepy. If there were a Nazi Germany now, we'd predictably have the conservatives sympathizing with them.
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Old 05-16-2015, 02:42 PM
 
Location: Aztlan
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If there were a Nazi Germany now, we'd predictably have the conservatives sympathizing with them.
National Socialism was/is a left wing movement.

https://archive.org/stream/NationalS.../NSLM_djvu.txt

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Old 05-16-2015, 02:56 PM
 
Location: Aztlan
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Another ignorant Tea Party thread.
I don't see what this has to do with the Tea Party and if you are a Dem it is odd that you seem to have so much vitriol for them. It is the establishment GOP who really hates the TP, because the TP holds the GOP to the light of hypocrisy and show them for the fiscal liberals that they are. The GOP is not conservative and has not been for some time. As a left-winger, you should support the Tea Party because it represents real change. If you oppose that change you are no better than an establishment GOPer because you are satisfied with the status quo. This is why democracy exists to inhibit change and the two parties are just two sides of the same coin.
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Old 05-16-2015, 03:12 PM
 
Location: Central Maine
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Usually if the word "ethnic" is used it means "non-white". Whites aren't allowed to have culture or ethnicity.
Ethnic: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a sizable group of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage.
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