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Anyone else find it a bit ironic that just before he went to give the eulogy in a church,Obama celebrated homosexual marriage becoming legal nationwide?
Good Lord....did he really say "call Johnny back for a job, but not Jamaal" - fan those flames brother...
Acknowledging reality is not fanning the flames. From Forbes:
"Applicants with white-sounding names were 50% more likely to get called for an initial interview than applicants with black-sounding names. Applicants with white names need to send about 10 resumes to get one callback. Applicants with black names need to send about 15 resumes to achieve the same result." http://www.forbes.com/sites/ruchikat...-to-get-a-job/
His singing, something that no previous President has ever been able to do in that venue, is a CELEBRATION.
He is celebrating the AUDACITY OF HOPE and CHANGE.
He has brought both in spades to this nation, and he represents the beginning of the END of the GOP and all its bigoted, racist, ineffective, obstructive nonsense. He's celebrating the Supreme Court siding with him THREE times this week, in slapping the living hell out of Conservatives everywhere. He's celebrating our society's renewed outrage of the existence of the Confederate flag, along with the hate and ignorance its supporters represent in this country. He's celebrating the triumph of OBAMACARE over hapless right-wing opposition, as it continues to be a resounding success. He's celebrating 7 years of total dominance of Republicans, showing that a black man is more than capable of leading the entire free world, with grace, unmatched dignity, supreme intelligence and poise, versatility, depth, and a level of effectiveness that eclipses that of any Republican.
Yes, the Eulogy was both a sad occasion and a celebration. The GOP's free fall continues.
Acknowledging reality is not fanning the flames. From Forbes:
"Applicants with white-sounding names were 50% more likely to get called for an initial interview than applicants with black-sounding names. Applicants with white names need to send about 10 resumes to get one callback. Applicants with black names need to send about 15 resumes to achieve the same result."
“We’re not claiming that employers engage in discriminatory behavior consciously, or that this is necessarily an issue of racism,” wrote Marianne Bertrand, a researcher on the study. “It is important to teach people in charge of hiring about the subconscious biases they may have, and figure out a way to change these patterns.”
“We’re not claiming that employers engage in discriminatory behavior consciously, or that this is necessarily an issue of racism,” wrote Marianne Bertrand, a researcher on the study. “It is important to teach people in charge of hiring about the subconscious biases they may have, and figure out a way to change these patterns.”
That's the whole point!!! Racial bias isn't always out-and-out racism. It isn't even always conscious. Hence why you saying that Obama was fanning the flames with his comment is ridiculous. His statement was a simple statement of reality.
What on earth does any of this even mean? I guess conservatism is now it's very own language for some people, kinda like speaking in tongues.
I did hear it, and it was beautiful. Too bad your boy Bush couldn't dare pull off something similar (or really any Republican out there)
Say, where is the black Republican Senator from South Carolina during all these tributes? He is more quiet than Bush has been since leaving office. Kinda strange.
You know, I left the office early today to do some work that it's actually easier to do from home. I caught the last ten minutes or so of this in its original broadcast, and I wondered, "how soon will someone start a thread piling on Obama for this eulogy, and what reasons will the poster use?" Never imagined that the first stated reason would be his invocation of perhaps the most well-known and -loved hymn or spiritual in American history among people of all creeds and ethnicities. What would y'all have said if he had begun singing "Go Down, Moses" or "Roll, Jordan, Roll?"
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A sad occasion, but a celebration as well
