handirifle wrote:big bear
If anyone has used racist comments here, they deserve your wrath, an I too congratulate you on YOUR personal hard work and success.
+1 Absolutely! This country provides opportunities for everyone, and I have a great deal of respect for those that through hard work and perseverance, take advantage of it.
handirifle wrote:With all that said, the ONLY man (or person) I'd like to see in the oval office for he next 8 years (not just 4) is Colin Powell. HE is a man this entire nation can look up to.
As I said before Powell is a man of honesty, and integrity, one man I would trust to lead my nation.
+1 here too. This isn't an election about race, though the media and Blacks would make it so. This is about the best
person for the job ... black, white, male, female, etc.
Unfortunately. discussions of race will not go away until those of race (or Hispanic, Muslim, etc.) stop making an issue of it! The world has changed. It is time to move on, and most people have put matters of race behind them. However, issues continue because minorities make it a point of separating themselves from everyone else. Why is it we have African-Americans, but no Polish-Americans, or Irish-Americans, or Italian-Americans, etc.? We should all just be Americans...no other designation is required (unless one feels more connection with another country than their homeland; if so, go be a citizen there). And no one dare talk about the most oppressed people here in the U.S -- the white man. The ACLU is right there to jump on every perceived slight against a minority, but blantantly ignore far greater attrocities committed on whites.
Why is it that 15% of the population is Black, yet a far greater percentage than that is represented on TV, with a great number of shows having virtually an all-black cast? Why do we have BET and Black History month, yet nothing for the white American? Why do we have Affirmative Action in this day and age, while more deserving candidates can't get into good schools? Why are all the major sports teams dominated by blacks, and fairly represented at the leadership and management positions, yet we still have to listen to discrimination accusations? And why are we even having the discussion of Black Reparation 150 years after the fact, when every major people in the world (including Anglo-Saxons) has been subjected to slavery at one time or another in history? Enough already!!
People should stop perpetuating racism by holding themselves apart and separate from those they accuse of the very same thing that they practice. An earlier thread with this theme seems relevant here:
"A Brief for Whitey by Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted 03/21/2008 ET
Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America .
Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.
This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.
Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.
Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants.
Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to supp ort soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?
Barack talks about new "ladders of opportunity" for blacks.
Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown , and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for "deserving" white kids.
Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America ? Is it really white America 's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent ?
Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?
Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?
We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena . And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago."
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Hope you guys will still talk to me about lever guns , hunting, and life. Take care, peace to all....and oh yeah...YES WE CAN!!!!
