Obama: If You Look African-american, You Are Treated Like One

[MSGT]

<tt><tt><tt> Obama's wife also addresses the race issue when asked by Kroft whether she fears for her husband's life as a black candidate. "I don't lose sleep over it because the realities are that... as a black man... Barack can get shot going to the gas station," says Michelle Obama. "You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."


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[MSGT]

I'm wondering just what the Hell she meant by this:question::question::question:

Are people out hunting black people? Are the police shooting black people on sight?
It's seems clear that there is the victim mentality going on here. Here's a clue the leading killer of black people is black people. I've got $100 that says Obama does not live in a majority black neighborhood.

[BuckeyeMike]

Prolly never did....prolly never will.
Sure is endearing himself to the white voters..ain't he?

[Riverboat]

If it's any consolation to her, Jesse Jackson treats black men like black men, too, by avoiding them on the street.

[Longhorn_Platinum]

:unsmile: Yeah, I recall the Reverend Jackson admitting that if he walked down the street at night, heard footsteps behind him, & turned around, he was relieved if he saw it was a white man.

[Wyatt_Junker]

Obama's wife also addresses the race issue when asked by Kroft whether she fears for her husband's life as a black candidate. "I don't lose sleep over it because the realities are that... as a black man...

The Obamas are such brave, fearless people. They have to suffer being black and its such an incredible hardship one must endure, and yet they trudge forward nonetheless, their heads up and shoulders back. Must take guts. Lots-n-lots uh guts. What steely nerves these two have! Remarkable really, if you think about it. Being black is like wearing your herpes on your sleeve. Black = leper. And yet these poor, brave ones carry on as if it were nothing. What resolve! What utter willpower! These two are amazing DYNAMOS!!!

[dPrasse]

Obama: If You Look African-american, You Are Treated Like One

Prasse:If you look African-American and say something intelligent , you get treated as an Uncle Tom

guess no chance of Obama being called a sell out Uncle Tom ...

[Lubbock]

Yep.

Victim mentality is the first thing that crossed my mind when I read it.

[Patrick Henry]

<TT><TT><TT> Obama's wife also addresses the race issue when asked by Kroft whether she fears for her husband's life as a black candidate. "I don't lose sleep over it because the realities are that... as a black man... Barack can get shot going to the gas station," says Michelle Obama. "You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."


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I wonder though if this could be construed as a reference to 'black on black' crime? The reporter should have caught that and asked for her to elaborate.

[dPrasse]

Black men are more likely to be killed by another black man in todays society ... "bad whitey" is more and more a thing of a race bating stereotype ...

[DesertFox]

If You Look African-american, You Are Treated Like One

Yeah, I've noticed that, looking white-american, I frequently get treated like one. My daughter is a girl-American and, confound it, she always gets treated like one. But worst of all, my dog looks like a Schnauzer-American and he unfailingly gets treated like one.

Yep, I know just what the Obamas are talking about. It's like them wimmen with 36-inch hooters who dress to show them honkers off. Then when they get the attention they dressed for, they whine about being treated like sex objects. Look like a sex object, get treated like one.

Yep. That's the Obamas, talkin' about race.

[Patrick Henry]

Black men are more likely to be killed by another black man in todays society ... "bad whitey" is more and more a thing of a race bating stereotype ...

Hence my question about the context of the statement.

[Wyatt_Junker]

If anything, being black is the new black. Or is it white? Aw shit, I don't know. All I know is that I use blackface whenever I want a job promotion or a reduction in college tuition. Oh yeah, I also ululate like an American indian and grow breasts.

My name is Lasandra Tyrone Tanto the Third and I'm very very very employable.

[DesertFox]

Yeah, butchoo differently-abled from most folks. And I bet you get treated like a differently-abled-American.

[Maggie_T]

Obama: If You Look African-american, You Are Treated Like One


And if you talk like an idiot, you'll also be treated like one, Hussy. And you talked like an idiot. And that's not because you're black. That's because you're a liberal.

How much longer are these black liberals going to continue brandishing the race card? Because as long as they do, they'll get NO respect from me. :flame:

[Tazeeyore]

Come on Mags, don't hold back so much, tell us what you really think.....OK? :evilgrin:

[Beowulf]

Obama misses the point. People of all races act like idiots and do their race a disservice. We have Hispanics acting retarded and then demanding respect as we do Orientals, Whites or whatever. If you act like a dipstick, I'm going to treat you like one. It's that simple. STOP making this a racial issue!!!!!!

[Lazarus]

Or you might get shot the next time you go to the gas station...

Apparently gas stations are prime hunting grounds for those really trophy-sized blacks...:rolleyes:

Mrs Obama, if Barak is likely to be targeted when he goes to the gas station, its not likely because he's a black man... Its more likely to be because someone mistook him for a small, skinny elephant - Its the ears, you see...

No charge for that...:D

[MrSanity]

Obamas, come on.

That is so 1960s...

[Patrick Henry]

Funny thing is, Obama is a 'Halfrican-American'. Why is he dissin' his 'whiteness'?

[Riverboat]

Now, there's a word worth introducing into the linguistic currency - Halfrican. Yeah, I LIKE that! Good show, P Henry!

[DesertFox]

According to the one-drop rule, you be black if but one drop of the four gallons of blood in yer bod cometh from a black person. That's what, about 0.001 percent? :question:

[Patrick Henry]

Now, there's a word worth introducing into the linguistic currency - Halfrican. Yeah, I LIKE that! Good show, P Henry!

I wish I could take credit for that, but I robbed it from another board some time ago. Can't remember where from, but I told him I was gonna use it from then on!

[MrSanity]

I wish I could take credit for that, but I robbed it from another board some time ago. Can't remember where from, but I told him I was gonna use it from then on!I remember some short time ago how Media Matters was outraged over Rush Limbaugh referring to Obama as a "Halfrican-American."

[Patrick Henry]

I remember some short time ago how Media Matters was outraged over Rush Limbaugh referring to Obama as a "Halfrican-American."

Interesting, I wish I could recall the timeline. But maybe that's where he got it from? Although, I believe he used it in reference to someone else. In either case it's not only true, but hillarious. :biggrin:

[BuckeyeMike]

Halfrican-American Balack Hussein Obama

[MSGT]

Michelle Obama proclaimed yesterday that for “the first time” in her adult life,” she was proud of America, as she spoke during a rally to support her husband’s presidential bid.


http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/politics/2008/view.bg?articleid=1074519&srvc=home&position=0

[MSGT]

This woman is a train wreck. I can't believe no one is capitalizing on this woman.

She seldom speaks but when she does........

[DesertFox]

Thread now be a year and a week old.

[Tazeeyore]

I know I am Irish-American and I am treated like one too! By the way, what the hell does an African-American look like? Ethiopian-American, Niarobi-American, Kenyan-American, or just black Americans? How do you tell the difference anyway? If they act African-American I would say they are probably treated as one.

[PrezLeefun]

Hell I didn't realize white people couldn't be shot on their way to the gas station. And if Black Barack were shot on his way anywhere chances are he'd be shot by another black guy..... so either it really is or definitly isnt a race thing.....


Boy this race stuff is confusing.

[Incident_command]

Boy this race stuff is confusing.

Boy? You racist!!!!

[PrezLeefun]

^^^LMAO :lol:

[DoctorDoom]

Yeah, I recall the Reverend Jackson admitting that if he walked down the street at night, heard footsteps behind him, & turned around, he was relieved if he saw it was a white man.
With media that focus relentlessly on the negative, the public largely ignores the emergence of a black middle class. For too many of us, black has become synonymous with family breakdown, poverty, drugs, crime and, worst of all, hopelessness. Even Jesse Jackson said a few years ago, "There is nothing more painful to me ... than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."Harvard's 'Talented Tenth' (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/960318/archive_010008.htm)

High rates of black violent crime are a national tragedy, but it is the law-abiding black majority that suffers from them most. "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life," Jesse Jackson said in 1993, "than to walk down the street and hear footsteps . . . then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved."Destruction in black America is self-inflicted (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/09/05/destruction_in_black_america_is_self_inflicted/)

[MSGT]

Thread now be a year and a week old.She gets the mike about once a year:biggrin:

[Uncle Ruckus]

In 1959 as a 4 year old, I witnessed a black man and his son no older than my age pushed from the back onto a wet floor of urine because a county sheriff thought they were going to use a white only men’s room. Please do not forget, and if you never knew black families the treatment was well known, and extremely pervasive countrywide. This is simply a stigma of what actual racism (not bigotry) can leave in the way of mental damage to an individual who cannot make sense of it. It would be presumptuous of me to assume that most members of this forum are white. It is also presumptuous for any of us to assume that racism is only a (or was) U.S. problem. This is/ has been a worldwide dilemma from the beginning of time, and the reactions run deep, and through generations of all people who experience it. My New York Irish and Florida African American friends all tell the same story in different terms. It is all the same. However, skin pigmentation is very hard to hide, and slaveries past economic difficulties take centuries to correct.

[DesertFox]

Unk, you can bet neither Obama nor his wife ever had anything like that happen to them. What's more, nothing like that has happened to anyone in America since the Sixties. I can understand someone holding a grudge if it happened to them, but I don't see how someone can hold a grudge for something that never happened to them and hasn't happened to anyone for 40 years. America is a very different place today from then.

Racism in the West is actually a fairly recent phenomenon. It arose after the Industrial Revolution had literally revolutionized the way Europeans lived. European explorers going into Africa found people living at the stone age level and sought an explanation for the extraordinary differences in achievement levels between European and African civilizations. This history can be found in Dinesh D'Souza's landmark The End of Racism.

I agree, though, racism as such isn't new. Of all the many peoples I've met, by far the most racist are Arabs. However, I've also seen Korean and Chinese and Japanese racism; all are convinced in their souls that their people is superior to all the rest, most especially the mongrel races of the West where intermixing has gone on for so long. Europeans pride themselves on being free of racism, and couldn't be more wrong. Or maybe it's just natural arrogance.

It's not at all presumptuous to presume that most of us here are white. America is still 70% white, so there's a good chance that in any given (and unknown and unseen) crowd in this country, you're dealing with white folks. That's no big deal. I think you've been here long enough to know that nobody here, white or black or other, engages anyone on the basis of pigmentation.

[Dowple]

Angry Black women

Michelle Obama:
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Aunt Ester
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[Tazeeyore]

Aunt Ester I like, the other one I don't. Any woman, white or black, that got a free ride to Princeton to study "Black Studies" and Sociology; then, even though her grades were less than what was normally acceptable she was allowed into Harvard Law School and graduated in 1988 should be proud of the fact that only in America could she scam the system because of what she is. She should be proud that only in America could a stupid black woman become a first lady if her socialist husband fools enough people. Other than that the victim crap needs to be stuffed up her fat lazy ass.

[Jack_Savage]

In 1959 as a 4 year old, I witnessed a black man and his son no older than my age pushed from the back onto a wet floor of urine because a county sheriff thought they were going to use a white only men’s room. Please do not forget, and if you never knew black families the treatment was well known, and extremely pervasive countrywide. This is simply a stigma of what actual racism (not bigotry) can leave in the way of mental damage to an individual who cannot make sense of it. It would be presumptuous of me to assume that most members of this forum are white. It is also presumptuous for any of us to assume that racism is only a (or was) U.S. problem. This is/ has been a worldwide dilemma from the beginning of time, and the reactions run deep, and through generations of all people who experience it. My New York Irish and Florida African American friends all tell the same story in different terms. It is all the same. However, skin pigmentation is very hard to hide, and slaveries past economic difficulties take centuries to correct.

I spent quite a bit of time in the Central African Republic, Congo and other countrys in Central Africa. Outside the larger cities, the people were the most human of souls I probably have ever met, but inside the cities the brutality twards each other was the most inhumane. General Bokassa the Dictator of the Central African Republic at the time, was later hunted down for horrific crimes like cannibleism. More people fled to South Africa, from that region than any other. He was one example of the kind of mentality that shipped the slaves for profit out of Africa.

Its worth remembering we are just finding our way in terms of relating to each other, all of us, just getting started in terms of the big picture, but it doesn't really work to operate on a platform of resentment. We face real tough times and Michelle Obamas comments about never being proud of America, panders to hate not opportunity. Barrack's Arsenio-ized slang tells me he intends to bring that hip-hop mentality into the White House. More resentment and con, instead of the deep responsibility our times require.

Listening to Barrack list all the freebies he intends to deliver to the cheering crowds was a disgusting example of pitting people against one another, hoping to capitalize on their pain. As if shooting the horse is going to make the cart full of needed supplies somehow get to the weak and under-nourished.

I hope the Presidency never gets diminished to the level of, a King or Queen for a day, and people respect the dignity of the office which has delivered more people from oppression than any other office in the history of the world.

The more I listen to Barrack, the less I think he and Michelle care about the words they speak. Its interesting to listen to how he see's America, that some how Americans will buy the con that even the lazy don't deserve to be poor. That just being an American requires the rest of the world to support a worry free lifestyle as he promised last night. That kind of talk only focuses more resentment to America. Thats not the kind of change that will solve any of the serious problems we face.

[Beowulf]

Dowple, you owe me a keyboard due to sprayed coffee.

[MSGT]

Every Texas pub needs to go out and vote for Hill. We have the most hated dem, the most hated pub and the most dangerous candidate all in the race. We know who the pub will be, don't let the dem be Obammy.

[BarkleUSA]

...without getting too caught up in race, it is but one of many devices the Democratic Party uses to divide Americans.

John Edwards used class to foment hatred and contempt among the "struggling masses". Hillary exploits inequities in education and health care.

It would be a huge mistake for Obama to use race as a wedge issue because with only 10% blacks in America it is doubtful he can generate enough white guilt to get the other 90% angry at themselves.

With class, one can always point to those making more and promise to take from the rich. With education, one can promise more money, smaller class sizes and with health care, one can promise free drugs and free treatment. But with race, the only promise is to pander to white guilt - something that has worn very thin over the past 30 years.

If he doesn't get his wife to stop this crap there will be a huge backlash - better Obama keep blithering vacuous platitudes of hope and change then touch the third rail.

[Uncle Ruckus]

Aunt Ester
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Aunt Ester with church hat telling Obama "You is a fish eyed fool"

[MSGT]

America 'guided by fear,' getting worse all the time,' she says in campaign speech

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