White House Advice

Wow. Where to start? Everyone seems to have a point although with a few, that point is trivial at best. Psycholiogists say that each person is a product of his enviornment, his upbringing and his ancestory. Whatever. If the man looked or acted like a rapper an nfl thug or any of the other stereotypes I don't think he would have been elected. There are over 300 milliion people in this country and less that 40 million Africian Americans. I'm sure Obama could not have been elected without a huge number of white voters. I think he is a product of the times. A rare combination (of any race) of intellect, ability, vision and just plain luck.
However, that being said. What chance does he really have if he is the lone honest voice that we think he is? Considering the 535 members of the United States Congress, 36 have been accused of spousal abuse. 7 have been arrested for fraud. 19 have been accused of writing bad checks. 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses. 3 have done time for assault 71, repeat 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit. 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges. 8 have been arrested for shoplifting. 21 currently are defendants in lawsuits, and 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year. When you have BAD people you have bad government and one lone voice cannot change that. Why do we keep electing these people. Stupidity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. A felony should disqualify anyone from public office at that level.

..and yes, leroyleroy is an idiot. So why respond to his drivel.? he's powerless, harmless and pathetic.

Actually, Obama's Black father abandoned the family (he was already married to a Kenyan woman when he married Obama's mother) and he ended up being raised by his white grandparents. Thank God for that or he might have ended up like his half brother: a radical muslim living in a Kenyan slum on $1.00 a month. Or maybe he would have been raised the Black community in America. Then he most likely would have ended up a homeboy with holding up his pants with one hand and liquor stores with the other. Luckily for him the White side of the family ended up raising him and instilling a decent set of values and mores.

"Sorry, i didnt want to get on a rant here, but...."

Hey Everyone :
Did you know that Barak Obama is the first black president of the USA? Geez, i would have never known that if our friends at ABC,NBC,CBS, MSNBC, FOX, and CNN hadnt told me daily since nov 4th....and about every 15 seconds during the conronatio...err,....Inauguration.

Did u know that Martin Luther King, Jr was apparently black also.....i think he was a speaker of some reknown, but it was so long ago that almost no one who isnt black apparently remembers him or anything he tried to do.....

...and did you know black people were once slaves here in America? (Unlike the millions of slaves held by the Romans, the Assyrians, the Mongols, the Turks, the Babylonians, the Zulus, the Carthaginians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Egyptians, the Russians, the French, the Arabs, the Hindus, and countless other cultures throughout history.....) and that more people were bigoted and racist many yearts ago than today?

...and when did it become mandatory for any Christian preacher to call themselves Dr?
Isnt that reserved for people who actually earn degrees studying something? Dr of Divinity is an affront to people who actually get PhD's the old fashioned way....they earn them.

Thats.... ONE TO GROW ON !

If blacks would stop preaching anti-white rhetoric then people like leroyleroy wouldn't be so pronounced. Even on the day a black president is inaugerated I hear several anti-white comments from his speakers. I guess there is one status quo with no hope of change.

Leroy you still can't do basic math or look up facts very well so I guess we have to do it for you.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,974473,00.html

The numbers go like this: 61% of the population receiving welfare, listed as "means-tested cash assistance" by the Census Bureau, is identified as white, while only 33% is identified as black. These numbers notwithstanding, the Republican version of "political correctness" has given us "welfare cheat" as a new term for African American since the early days of Ronald Reagan.

Freedom of speech??? Or Freedom of hate??? I am NOT a color, I am a MOM, Grandma,GREAT_GRANDMA, AUNT, sister, friend.

Is it just me, or is leroyleroy funny? (and racst and deluded and just baiting people to respond...?)
Unfortuneately, when it says "Congress shall make no law .....abridging the freedom of speech..." it applies to hateful and ignorant speech.....despite what the supreme court says.....

Everyone needs to calm down. This is all nonsense. Like it or not, obama is not a KING....he's an elected official in ONE branch of the government. He cannot make decrees by fiat. Even if you didnt vote for him (which i didnt) you must give him the respect for the office he holds and a chance to govern with the rest of the government.
You must also hold him accountable. It was his campaign that set the bar so high...and the cleanup is not all on his shoulders.

BTW: remember how excited everyone eas when clinton came into office, and 8 years later we were all waiting for the day he left because we were tired of hearing about Monica L ? Barak's turn will come too....
The 'American Idol' mentality of anyone who was at that mall yesterday thinking a 'new day' had come will assure that.

...and i agree..Alice Walker is a terrible writer. This just reinforces it. (Speilberg and Goldberg made that crappy story intelligible. )

YES ITS TRUE: "black" people can be bad writers, filmakers, lawyers, cops, judges, laborers, mayors, doctors, etc just like everyone else....and it doesnt mean everyone else is racist.... Its time humans held everyone accountable for their own choices and stopped blaming other people. The "noble-savage" myth must finally be put to rest.

How did a beautifully written discourse on keeping one's soul and family intact degenerate on this blog to a discussion about race?

We would all do well to take Obama's advice to heart: 'now is the time to put away childish things.'

The name calling and fingerpointing, like a group of children on the playground, is not how we will get our nation back on track, folks. Time for Americans to grow up.

An obvious but (purposefully) ignored reality. Race is not a means for a minority to exclude itself from the majority but rather for a majority to exclude the minority. For all this talk about the "racism" of minorities it's (conveniently) forgotten that it's not they who set the terms of the groups they belong to. For example, in majority Black countries, mixed races are not called Black or White, they're called Mixed, with no implicit statement on their culture. People who grew up in predominantly Black countries don't think of themselves as Blacks, just people. For minorities to be colorblind, the majority has to first be colorblind because we are what we are but we are what what everybody says we are.

All this constant, unbearable, unrelenting, autistic focus on skin color is a big part of what perpetuates racism in the first place. If you want racism to end, get it through your skull that skin color is no more important than eye color, or height, or innie and outie belly buttons.

Also, you really don't know a damn thing about the Dalai Lama, or Tibet, or China. Please stop spouting CIA-backed propaganda just because it's endorsed by a friendly-talking wizard in an orange robe (who just happens to have been the personal owner of several thousand slaves before China "invaded" what was already a province of China). This isn't Lord of the Rings, it's reality, and reality isn't a place of pure good and pure evil, it's a billion shades of grey.

All this constant, unbearable, unrelenting, autistic focus on skin color is a big part of what perpetuates racism in the first place. If you want racism to end, get it through your skull that skin color is no more important than eye color, or height, or innie and outie belly buttons.

Also, you really don't know a damn thing about the Dalai Lama, or Tibet, or China. Please stop spouting CIA-backed propaganda just because it's endorsed by a friendly-talking wizard in an orange robe (who just happens to have been the personal owner of several thousand slaves before China "invaded" what was already a province of China). This isn't Lord of the Rings, it's reality, and reality isn't a place of pure good and pure evil, it's a billion shades of grey.

listen everyone. i am what people describe as white. i dont think of myself as that because putting anyone into a group creates problems. just as soon as we allow groups to establish, we are all finding new ways to be distinct from our american brothers and sisters....last semester i had a class called "Race and Identity in a philosophical context" at the university. i am 33 years old so i have seen my share. anyway, the seond day of class the intructor asked everyone to think of ways in which they defined race. when my turn came i asked the class" if we were all blind, would there be any races?"

and so at the end of the semester the conclusion to the class was that race is a voluntary organization. that is, IT is something that we decide to be part of. its called our identity. sure others can decide that you are a certain "race" but, its up to us to decide to be that "race". if that sounds complex, it is. dubois and appiah dedicated their entire lives to the study of race and only appiah came to the modern idea that i quoted above.

so whats all this mean? it means that we need to stop "grouping" ourselves into races. we all experience similar concepts in our lives, we are not so different in our struggles for justice and other concepts. you see, grouping destroys fellowship with other groups and causes differentiation between groups, ultimately causing problems. stuff like; he looks different, its because he is mexican.....all white people this and that......blacks all do.........and so on and so forth.

i have read alice walker in that particular class and i find her to be an angry spitefull racist. you see a racist is anyone who thinks that a group of people should remain a particular group of people instead of becoming more than just a group of people. i was not raised to believe in races...everyone was the same.....my parents never even mentioned that people were differentiated by physical traits or that races even existed. it can be the same with other peoples too if they would only stop grouping themselves and become part of something bigger.

leroy is obviously angry and struggling with the feeling of what he feels is injustice. is that any different that the struggles for justice other people experience. i dont like groups maintaning the regalia of grouping that exists like the BET either. it keeps others thinking that they dont want to identify with the common supergroup identity.

********************************LETS ALL KEEP LEROYLEROY IN PRAYER***********************************************************

LEROYLEROY YOU ARE A PERSON THAT I WILL KEEP IN PRAYER
AMERICA IS CHANGING AND APPARENTLY YOU ARE NOT UP FOR
THE CHALLENGE.. MY SUGGESTION FOR YOU WOULD BE TO GO
BACK TO THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES THAT YOUR ANCESTORS
MIGRATED TO AMERICA FROM.
GOD BLESS YOU THOUGH AND I HOPE YOU LEARN TO BE A BIT
MORE OPTIMISTIC AND REMEMBER HATE KILLS
stop the negativity spread the love and maybe one day you will
find inner peace... because right now you sound like alot of hate
and ugly.

Leroy, I feel so sorry for you! What an a$$ to be so riddled with hate and misinformed. It's ignorant people like yourself that make this world seem like such a bad place. Nothing you or any other hate monger could say to take the joy from this historical moment. You can accept it or not, we really don't care. Cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it!