Daring to Touch the Third Rail

People think when Michelle talking about race, it means she is racist. This is more than silly. It is naturally for her to speak to her own people-African Americans--with natural ways. Inclusion doesn't mean we don't acknowledge that there are differences among us. Equality is acknowlege there are differences among people, but based on that understanding we respect each other. We want a system is based on equal opportunity, but that doesn't mean we don't acknowledge the differences among us. Actually we should appreciate our differences.

"OBAMA PORTRAIT MUSIC VIDEO" on Youtube - Don't Miss It!

For those of you who still have not heard:

There is a WONDERFUL and INSPIRING music video on Youtube.com entitled "Obama Portrait Music Video by Bjarne O."
You can use the free downloaded high-quality stereo version from the composer's website in DVD form to show at house parties and fundraisers. Even people who knew nothing at all about Obama have been moved: either a thrilling introduction, or further inspiration for those of us who already know and fight for Obama.
The music soundtrack, which incorporates excerpts from the famous 2004 speech, can also be downloaded separately in high-quality.

So please, SPREAD THE WORD!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mCPwbozpIzM

YES WE CAN

Anne

sean2002..okay. Let's say that John McCain's wife only tries to appeal to white voters and makes references to promote and edify Caucasian Americans..would that be okay? She would be treated worse than Imus was for making the comment that he made about the black women's basketball team. Let's face it, there are 2 different sets of rules. And that is what ticks people off and turns me off to vote for somebody like Obama.

THIS DOESN'T SOUND RACIST? WHO ARE YOU KIDDING! IT IS CLEAR THAT MICHELLE AND BARACK ARE TRYING TO PANDER TO THEIR GROUPS OF "INTEREST" TO SEAL THE DEAL. REREAD MICHELLE'S STATEMENTS AND INSERT THE WORD "WHITE" WHEREVER YOU SEE THE WORD "AFRICAN AMERICAN" OR "BLACK", NOW DO YOU SEE THE UNDERLYING RACIST TONE? RACISM CAN AND DOES GO BOTH WAYS! YUCK!!!

Since you seem to know it all, and Barak is so right on this race card issue. How would you like it if the Clintons were to say all the White people have to vote for Hillary? Everyone needs to get over the race thing and get on with progress. Michelle Obama must remember, Barak came in as a supposed mender, bring everyone together. But he has now proven himself to be the single most divisive force in recent democrat history. Now, with that understood, how can the Democrat party beat the Republican enemy when Barak is intentionally breaking us up? And he has the audacity to run as the agent of bringing everyone together? The truth is he is weakening the party and the Republicans are loving every minute of it. He needs to grow up and quit the whining and using the race card issue. Hillary has worked successfully with dems, repubs and Independents, Blacks, Hispanics, rich, poor, corporations, small business, and everyone else. Knowing how he has broken up the bond of our Democratic party, we can only expect him to fail in working with any others. How will he unite any others when he has spent all of his energies dividing us? How many times has Michelle told the Black American that he is no good, oppressed, and not good enough? She is the very one trying to teach hate. She is trying to put some beliefs in the black American that can only harm. The truth is, Black people have come a long way. Many of them are very successful, just look around you. Why are you allowing her to bring your spirits down with a false since of OPPRESSION? The truth is I am Black man myself, and very comfortable in my skin. Very proud of my history and am very offended when my own people try to plant false fears in my mind. The truth is, Michelle is using race as a fear tool, but I am not afraid, I am proud of my Black heritage. I am proud when I see all of these Black reporters, lawyers, commercial actors etc., etc., etc., Please stop spreading fear in the Black Americans' lives. Lift us up. Stop trying to make us feel inadequate. Those of us that are proud of our people don't want to hear anyone saying we are less. Especially one of our own. I have never heard the Clintons tear us down like that; they have only tried to lift us up and empower our minds. Not try to make us think we are any less than any other man, or woman for that matter.

I think it is so sad that instead of having real issues to talk about the press has started nit-picking Senator Obama and his wife. I really don't see what the big deal is. Hillary speaks to Blacks and changes her accent and flecks her speeches with references to MLK,Soujourner Truth and other prominant black figures. She and her husband even go as far as pimping themselves to black churches and being sure to have whatever ethnic group that is popular at the moment behind them when speaking. So Michelle spoke the truth about what she feels and knows big deal. People are just mad that Obama has not given into this whole race things and he has the ability to inspire young, old, black, white, asian,and hispanic. People are just scared that there is a real chance the Sen. from Illinois is actually capable of uniting this country.And what on earth would we do with an America that is really for all people not just in theory but reality?

The media is making this campaign about race. I don't see how folks cant see that. Barak is doing a great job trying to keep the topic on change. This Country is at such a divide. How can Huckabee even think we in the East want to hear him saying the Confederate Flag should still fly anywhere? wtf IS UP WITH THAT? We need to address the real problems of the Nation and move on from them so our people can stop wanting to kill each other all the time. The economy is so bad it almost seems like the easier thing to do is sell drugs and get fast money. Sub-Prime is a sickning thing to even think about but still banks are loaning money to people who they have to know cant afford it. We need to read about our selves more to understand who we are and maybe we can start to instill real values in our children and give them a sense of self worth.

It is disturbing to see someone who has attended such ivy league schools as Princeton and Harvard talk about inequality of opportunity ... how did someone from a working class family come to attend these expensive schools? My guess would be through scholarships and grants ... and an admissions system that was operating under legislated quota systems ... those very quota systems designed to equalize opportunities for all minorities. It feels false to me to hear someone who has clearly benefitted from the efforts of others [including many, many white people] to make things better for all minorities without once at least acknowledging this fact. If the Obamas truly want to unify Americans, starting by acknowledging what is right and what has already been done by the many of us who have voted and worked diligently for the betterment of us all, might be a good start.

this is a good artical, but there is something I would like to know. The church that he is supose to belong to is is raciest. They don't let anyone into the church that isn't black, and have Africa as their Mother country, I read this on their web site. Does he really belong to this church and if so he is a raciest. Thats not good. I don't care what color the president is but I do care if he is a raciest.

Michelle's comments are very unfortunate. The Obama's are making this campaign about race, and while that may play very well in the Democratic primaries, it's a sure loss in the general election. In pitting blacks against whites in the nomination process; the Obama's are going to face a major backlash in the general election. While a black voter will more likely support black candidates simply because of skin color, in a general election this type of racism does not play well. While Obama and his wife are using every race card possible to win the nomination, they are at the same time insuring that we will have another four years of religious fundamentalist rule in our country. The best thing for the Democrats, and the country, is for the Obama's to lose fast and early. Obama is no MLK, Jessie Jackson, or Al Sharpton; and if he makes it to the general election his drug use, non-existent experience, and his racist wife and church are going to be the end of the Democratic party.