President Obama Selects a Black Man to Run NASA

My GOD we are living in interesting times.

 

Not the full fledged racist

but mild ones,yes.

Thousands of people,who hold racist views of blacks,went to the polls last november out of desperation.Im sure many of them had internal battles with their decision.Either vote for a black man,or another Bush.
Lets be honest here.If bush hadnt of fucked up the reputation of republicans during his administration,Obama wouldnt have stood a chance.Not to mention,the fact that he's biracila and light skinned,most likely mitigated the situation in alot of the minds of racist.Post racial america my ass.

 

Well,to tel you the truth,many Black immigrants(whether from the carribean or Africa) come to this country with a feeling of superiority over African Americans because they believe in all of the negative stereotypes(thugs,criminals,high school drop outs,drug dealers,etc) of African Americans,so they attempt to disassociate themselves as much as possible.Some even collaborate with whites here in demeaning African Americans.Although these black immigrants are ignorant to the fact that the same whites they converse with,dont like them either,they still join in and turn up their noses to African Americans.

 

Go ahead

Btw,arabs are considered "white people"

 

How will the Black community gain anything with "allies"? LOL

Every single ethnic group despises Black people.

As soon as blacks realize this and realize that we are on our own,we will be on the right track.

 

Again, there's a difference between going to the polls and going door to door encouraging other people to go to the polls.

That's debatable, but it's not like Obama was born the Democrat nominee. He was chosen against White Men & White Women, and none of them were Bush.

 

I don't see what your post has to do with mine. I asked for evidence of a majority, and instead you gave me an more unsubstantiated comments about an entirely different group.

 

In that case, in your opinion, are Arabs more racist than other White People?

 

How?

 

I second that how. I know Im new here, but Im not afraid to jump into something when it strikes me as just wrong. I am so tired of hearing from black people how much white people hate on them. I used to work in the public schools and it was a common thing to get out of having a class with a teacher the student didnt like to call him or her racist. And you know, sometimes I believe the kid really thought the teacher was. Most of the time in reality, the teacher wasn't. But 99% of the time teachers know they would lose their jobs if that sort of thing was true, so even if they were, they would mitigate that in the classroom.

I am still young (even though Im getting older everyday), and I say that my generation and the kids younger than me and my friends were instrumental in getting Obama elected. We didnt campaign for him (some of us in other states!) because he is half-black. I didnt campaign for him because his mother's family is form Kansas like mine is. My white friends, Arab friends (who I always thought were Asian...), gay friends, black friends and mixed friends all supported him because we thought he was the best, most qualified person for the job.

During the campaign I heard a lot of "white folks wont ever vote for a black guy" and that kind of thing. Do black people not realize that, yes it is an extension of white priviledge to not have to, but the majority of whites never even think about race unless it comes up? At least that's how I feel within my generation. I know there are lots of a-holes out there that are racist, but they are not the majority and I get so tired of hearing minorities trippin on white people as a whole for being racist toward them. I am sorry that more whites arent doing things to help minorities, but as someone who has tried to reach out to different colors and cultures, the constant mistrust and hostility get old.

 

I can see that instead of looking at actual progress, some folk choose to feel sorry for themselves and their race while looking at every other nationality as the enemy. They fail to realize that when you point the finger at someone else, there are already three fingers pointing back at you. So as black people, we should really just be all on our own huh?

Yeah, that was Dr. King's dream all right.:smt009

 

Yeah Id love to come over and sing We Shall Overcome with you, TS, but apparently then we'd just be two big race traitors... wouldnt be the first time Ive been called that though...

 

Are you serious? You need to go back and study black history. One of the major reasons why the Civil Rights Movement was successful is because there were a lot of white allies. In the entertainment industry, blacks had a lot of allies from the 1930s through the 1960s which allowed them to slowly advance in entertainment (and sports) during that period. White allies helped to build the Niagara Movement in the 1900s decade. White allies helped to establish Freeman schools during the Reconstruction effort. White allies helped to build an abolitionist movement and to free the slaves in the North during and after the revolutionary war. So they have gained a lot from their white allies. Yeah there were a lot of racist whites, but all throughout American history, there were white people who were willing to fight and even die for black freedom.

And there are Asians and Hispanics that believe in black freedom. Who shot Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X)? A black man. In whose arms did he die in? The arms of a Japanese woman who remembers the internment of the Japanese during WWII and who allied herself and her community with Malcolm to fight for racial justice. And how did the white ethnics become white? Not by fighting for themselves, but by fighting for other white ethnics.

This is a gross exaggeration. Many do. But there is a significant portion of people in every ethnic group that does not despise black people, and believe in MLK's dream.

History says otherwise. No group ever advanced in America by only looking out for its own interests.

 

And BTW, how about that Charles Bolden?

 

Rep added.:smt023

 

And who gave black men the right to vote? Oh that's right, all those white men up in the Capitol...

 

Well, it is not as if one day those politicians woke up and felt particularly altruistic one day, and decided to pass the civil rights act. There was much blood, sweat, and tears, shed agitating to gain those rights.

 

yep

 

"You have given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later."

 

And Im not saying there wasn't. But Im not talking to a bunch of people who know their history and understand the idea of solidarity, and what it takes to get to that place. Im talking to a couple of haters who dont understand that for progress to be made, we have to put our predjudices aside.