Meet Generation O

SoBJsassy, do you actually think you are defending the patriotic heritage of the racist south along with ToTheRight that results in calling a Black man never accused of, never having particvipated in any racist action aracist. Oh, I get it. I I say the South's history of racist actions such as lynchings and Church bombings, that means I am a racist? I wonder how many Americans think that? Notwithstanding, the real racists. The ones that fought to maintain racist Jim crow laws and lost. Ergo, no more Jim Crow. But those that denounce racism are the racists. If you and ToThe Right say so.

ToTheRight, come on now. Have some decency. I have just posted a collection of historical racist facts Souther White racists afflicted on Blacks and you still dare call anybody racist? What an astounding illustration of willful ignorance. You can say or think what you want but I tell you no federal agency ever came to my hometown or state and demanded my family or any family is the state stop practicing illegal and unconstitutional racism. Do you really think that denying the heritage of racism in the south means it never happened, or was not recorded as the dark days of the United SDtates. Defend that behavior all you want. Pretend those racist actions are not examples of the most virile hate filled actions ever commited by mankind in all humanity, but only racists would support you. Certainly not most Americans. Go ahead,It is actually outrageous ofr any southerner to ever have the nerve to call anybody a racist, with their history and legacy of viloent racism. phooey

BJsassy, are you actually the horrible inhumae history of Jim Crow laws, the lives they destroyd and events that led to the end of Jim Crow as "vague generalizations ?"sheesh Unfortunate for you most Americans do not and have never seen the Jim Crow era as a vague generalization. I recall Southern Blacks helpless ond defenseless and powerless to exact fair and constitutional support from any city, town or state in the South. Blacks were murdered, lynched, Chuches bombed, little Black cjildren killed. When Blacks protested against such treatment, marched peacefully to protest. Therewer mass arrests of Blacks. But the zealousness of the racists made a profound mistake. They murdered two young White college students, along with a Black one. Shortly after that main streets across the South were filled up with Whies, Jews, Methodists, marching arm in arm with Blacks. Southerners were prepared to continue to kill Blacks, but smart enough to realize when Whites from the North came South, all the racists turned to water. They knew better than to attempt to exercise such evil on Northen Whites. they didn't and shortly after Southern Racists no longer even practiced legalized racism against Blacks. So much for the tough guy attitudes that occassionally come out of the south. Anyway, none of that, what I just said is a vague characterization. It is factual American History, whether you like it or not. As far as you suggesting my commentary is vague. Did not every single citizen of the south change the way they lived? Call that vague huh? righttttttttt.

Lee Holmes, I have no idea what you are talking about. All I know is that you and others are constantly referring to the Republican Party and their connection to the Party of Lincoln. Regardless of whatever your point is. The Southern States regardless of how they labeled themselves fought against President Lincoln, the Commander-in-Chief of the Union Army and now they refer to themselves as the Party of Lincoln. There is not and never has been a Southern State that supported President Lincoln and his political party that ended slavery. If you suggest otherwise, you sir are distorting factual US History.

Now it is apparent that Southern citizens, at least the ones that post commentary want Americans to believe there was a time when Southerners supported Civil Rights for Blacks but that conflicts with the 100 year history of unconstitutional racist Jim crow laws implemented all across the South. So I challenge you to point out one southern state and its citizenry that has ever supported Civil rights, or supported President Lincoln . Unless you now state that after the ending of Jim Crow Laws in the 1960???s Southern states and their citizens became supporters of the Party of Lincoln in spite of the fact he has been dead for over one hundred years and when he was alive the south was at war with him.

Southern Republicans that suggest they are supporters of Lincolns Republican Party that defeated the Slave states and all people that supported slavery can in no way lend the history of slavery and Jim Crow racism to President Lincoln and any other actual opposition to racism; unless you make it up. Any suggestion the South ever opposed racism is simply a lie. Care to offer the dates of US History when any southern state opposed racism? Surely it wasn???t before or during the Civil War. Incomprehensible to suggest the south opposed racism when every southern state implemented racist Jim crow laws. Now if Southerners, Republicans or otherwise hope to convince any American they now support Civil rights for Blacks and now oppose racism that is a good thing. But let them start that by telling the truth about their historical embrace of racism and stop telling lies. Those lies are any rhetoric that Denys that southern states did not support racism from the founding of this nation until they were forced to abandon Jim crow laws. What good does it do Lee Holmes to frame the Civil War as being a war between Democrats nad Republicans when there has not been one year in US History when the South, the entire South did not support hate, manifested by Slavery and Jim Crow laws in the entire history of the United States until Jim Crow laws were outlawed, judged unconstitutional and abolished??

Lee Holmes seems to think their was a war fought between Democrats and Republicans? Where is that recorded in US History?

bosmith: Now which Southern states, almost every Southern state now votes Republican.

Garbage. The United States Congress in the 111th finds that every single last former slave holding state including ''Confederacy'' and ''Border'' is Democrat -dominated with only two states, Alabama and Louisiana, reaching parity between the two parties representatives. Texas had to wait until 2002 to get a GOP-led state legislature. Georgia, until 2003 to elect its first post-Reconstruction GOP governor. Your grasp of basic mathematics escapes you. How can the Democrats hold both houses of Congress with huge majorities in the House, if these meddlesome Southerners ''vote Republican'' all the time? Try peddling your nonsense to former slave-holding Virginia,North Carolina, or Arkansas where these have Democrat governors. or House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who represents the former slave holding Maryland, or President Pro Tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd, who represents the former slave-holding West Va. or the Democrat chairmen and women of the nations most powerful committees who all hail from former slave-holding Texas [Reyes], Lee [Texas] Thompson [Mississippi], Nelson [Florida],Lewis [Georgia], Warner [Virginia] and until he was forced out due to his impeachment as a judge, Hastings [Mississippi].

These are tired excuses that no longer hold any water.

As an oild liberal, i welcome this new generation. Being a liberal is not easy as self interests and fear, can over time, weaken one's resolve to help out his fellow man. But then there is always Peter Seeger, who at 90, shows that age does not have to be the enemy of doing good.

Posted By: RS NC @ 05/12/2009 2:49:31 PMThe Democrats aren't the ones singing songs about "Magic Negros"...

Nope. They are browbeating Miss American finalists by calling them ''***'' and desiring that political opponants die of kidney failure instead, with even the POTUS finding this quite funny.

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Since when is Obama's economic plan "practical"? Borrowing Trillions we dont have and expanding government(which is great at wasting tax dollars) is far from my defenition of practical.

There is hope for the new generation after all. Yes, I saw them work for Obama in the last election and most of them are now flocking to Obama's expanded volunteer service programs for community and foreign assignments. Obama truly inspires the young generations with his brilliance, intelligence and visions.

Vigilance, I thought I would mention that I purchased a math software program I saw advertised on ???The Math Help Forum.??? at http://www.mathhelpforum.com/math-help/calculus/. The name of the software is ???Calculus Solved.??? It is located at www.bagatrix.com The software is excellent. You can type in any derivative or integral. Trigonometric or otherwise and it will not only solve the problem, it will offer a step-by-step solution to the function. It only costs $39.99 to download or the same with taxes if you have the CD mailed to you.

I know that you do not need the software as I do. In fact I only posted this comment in an effort to assist anybody participating on this forum if they know of someone studying Calculus. A lot of us on this forum seem to be so stubborn, so hard-headed, they seem to think they know everything, are way beyond the human reality of being able to learn something from anybody else, especially if they are of a different ethnicity or political leanings; if they are more interested in learning than pronouncing and portraying they no more than everybody else. Maybe I can add something of substance to this forum by telling you. Who knows, maybe one of these know it all will either purchase the software for someone they think it may be a help to?

Ok where do I start. There has been so much political party bashing going on here that I think many of you have lost the whole point of this article. So for the sake of trying to get back on track. The article clearly states that many younger voters are not identifying themselves as either Democratic or Republican first but they are identifying themselves as American first. I for one can completely agree with that, as a 25 year old voter I do not vote purely on the grounds of party. Instead I take a good look at the candidates as individuals. I did not vote this year because I felt like I was choosing the lesser of 2 evils. I did not agree with either side on many of the issues that were relevant in this campaign. So for those of you out there who now think my opinion is not worth a thing because I did not vote then please tell me why you voted.
The article also states that these people are getting together to blog about life across mainstream America. the only problem that I see with this is that the bloggers are Obama supporters. I think to get a clear view of mainstream America they need to take a broader view from Obama supporters and non supporters alike. If they want this to be a histrorical record they need to treat it as such, taking all views into consideration.
With that said, for those out there who just can't seem to agree...guess what, not everyone thinks like you. so instead of fighting like children with name calling how about we act like the adults I hope we are and have an actual debate based on the topic. Stop trying to promote your own agenda.

After reading many of these post, I would like to propose that the voting age be raised to 25.

Liberalism my indeed be, like acne, an issue that strikes earlier in life...
But I believe that makes conservatism... the Depends years of incontinence and MEMORY failure..

The concept of conservatism is great, so is the concept of liberalism.... (if you've actually read about socialism and communism they sound pretty good on paper too).. but putting any political theory into action EFFECTIVELY seems nearly impossible.

These days "conservatve political values" means transfering wealth from everyone on the ground in America to the top 3% of the populace with all due speed, and undue haste.

It's been so long since anyone even tried liberalism (even the GOP regarded Clinton as a moderate) that who knows what it means? But I'm certainly willing to find out. If it starts less than 2 wars... and doesn't collapse the economy... it'll be better than conservatism.