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  Anonymous

  1 year ago

  well, let them and that 'friend' have their issues with race, they can then sit back and whine, moan and complain when mccain/bush is in office next year. i for one tire of these trifling bigots who won't even give obama a chance. i just love it when i hear some of my best friends are black..... especially at duke, yeah right.
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  Lolo

  1 year ago

  Hahaha, I've always been puzzled and uncomfortable with the whole "friend" definition between myself and many white people. It's one that I really hold the line on with my children too. If you haven't been invited into our home and fed a sit down meal at our table, then it's highly unlikely you're one of our "friends". Lots of acquaintences, sure, lots of friendly acquaintences but friends is a whole diff thing.
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  TruthSeeker

  1 year ago

  Good post. I hope ethnic voting data will be kept confidential in the future. It can be used for some good, but more and more, the media uses it to speculate on racial divides which inflame racial tensions.
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  Ronnie B

  1 year ago

  Yes, there's a consistent percentage of white (and other) people who won't vote for a Black person. Let them be. No need to try and change them, confront them, or reason with them.
  
  
  Our job, in my opinion, is to "celebrate" those white (and other) people who ARE voting for, or considering voting for Barack. And all of us should be touting just how informed, forward-thinking, and problem-solving we all are.
  
  
  
  In my opinion, we speak nothing (publically) of the bigot and racist types. Let them have only each other. Let them see that real and decent people have no time or care for them or their petty prejudices.
  
  
  
  Ostracize them without saying a word.
  
  
  
  But perhaps the worst thing we can do with bigots and racists, would be to publically challenge their bigotry and racism.
  
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  Craig Hickman

  1 year ago

  ronnie b, you have made a believer out of me.
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  The Christian Progressive Libe

  1 year ago

  Those Black students at Duke know what time it is.
  
  
  And on the heels of that rape case, while the whites are eager to make friends, those young brothas and sistas are playing "Wait and See" before they hand out the "friendship" label.
  
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  50 foot QE

  1 year ago

  Ronnie B, I think, is more in line with what is working with this campaign- staying positive.
  
  
  As one of your most loyal readers (and caucasian to boot) I want to respond to assumptions about knuckle heads that are talking through their "friends". It may have to do with race (or the culture of privilege),but it also has to do with being unaware of oneself and buying into the system without thinking.
  
  
  
  Obama wants to wake us up. He isn't offering easy answers because no easy solutions will do to heal the damage that has been done by Washington to our country since corruption became the norm.
  
  
  
  Every day that goes by with the media playing up HC and the bs they dish makes me respect Senator Obama more and feel sadness for the people that can't see the game that is being played.
  
  
  
  I for one am glad to find so many more people who like John Kerry are ready to move on and get to the issues at hand.
  
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  Francis L. Holland Blog

  1 year ago

  Well, we know that although they only have two links to Black blogs our of a hundred over at MyDD, still they insist that they are color-blind. Yeah, they're color-blind: they only see white! But, in this presidential election, White Bloggers' Ignorance Isn't Hillary's Bliss!
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  Anna

  1 year ago

  There's a marvellous post on how the Clintons have used the race card and how much this needs to be resisted - over at TPM. Do read it - and know how many white people are onside in deploring this.
  http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/05/hillary-clinton-has-a-palmore.php
  
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  Ronnie B

  1 year ago

  anna
  
  
  That was an outstanding post on the Clintons and their pursuit of the white bigot vote. Thanks for the link.
  
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  TruthSeeker

  1 year ago

  Well, Obama's pushed the mighty Clinton's into a corner. Now they must go mining in Republican bigot territory just to stay viable. Ha!
  
  
  Of course, most bigots are also sexist. If they have a choice between a white woman or white man, they'll probably choose the man. Ah, the tangled web the Clinton's weave!
  
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  Anonymous

  1 year ago

  ... eat with 'em? My word!
  
  
  You know, I'm not sure if I ever sat down and ate with my one close black friend at college. I can sure say that if I saw him in the Cafeteria I'd be sitting by him! (but I don't think I ever really did. humph).
  
  
  
  Then again, I played RPGs with him every single week (pencil and paper). And if that's not close enough to call someone a friend, I don't wanna hafta kiss 'em! ;-)
  
  
  
  Of course, he was one of my 'not-black' black friends (that is to say, someone who I wouldn't have said blackness was an essential part of him).
  
  
  
  I think it was until after college that I actually made culturally black friends.
  
  
  
  Ya live and learn, folks. And college is a place where people DO separate out, find the people they LIKE.
  
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  Anonymous

  1 year ago

  You all know a grandmother, don't you? Maybe a grandmother would have Wright's harsh words matter to her...
  (just like I've heard a son say he wasn't sure how his parents would react if the girlfriend he brought home was black)
  
  
  
  It troubles me to hear that people say it would matter to most of the people they know, though.
  
  
  
  How racist is this blasted country?
  
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