Current State of Race Relations in America

And your motive for just asking is?

 

I think you have valid questions, but on the other hand I do not fault the black portion of our nation voting for Obomba. That in my mind is quite understandable - overlooking the knot heads that didn't even know what his positions were :laugh:

On the other hand I personally find it just as amazing, if not more so that America voted into office a man called Barack Husain Obama (Sorry if that is mispelled - in light of all the terrorism of the world. We are indeed open minded as a whole :thumbs:

AND NO I am not insinuating anything :saint:

 

Why do you need to know his motive (as if implying he some ulterior motive for asking)? Is intellectual curiosity (just asking) not a clear "motive"?

 

Agreed. I think you should be proud that America is growing up out if its immature and racist past to be able to elect a man who has a name and skin colour of Obama. I think the rest of the world is amazed at that fact and I see it as a sign of American world leadership to cause the rest of the world to pause and look hard at their own dark areas and prejudices.

 

I think that while Blacks are proudly proclaiming how far they've come, many are showing how far they have yet to go. Winning a vote, getting a job, being successful is truely an acheivement when it is based on abilities and readiness and opportunities are offered and accepted without regard to race. But whenever race is of influence..... then no matter who you are or what color of skin, you've thrown something into the mix with which others of different race cannot compete........... and it is just as racial and bigoted as ever, no matter who does this!

 

Hypothetical question with no meaning. Why? Because it has never happened and never will happen.

I believe asking the purpose of the question is valid. I have been ask my purpose of a topic or question in threads I started. If it is fair for one person to be ask, it is fair for another person to be ask.

What was your real purpose in asking?

 

I believe the cause of rcial equality was doing well until affirmative action set it back by a couple of decades.

If a President Obama practices race based politics, as I believe he will, the cause will be set back another generation.

 

I agree.

Well before this election I did not accept the notion that America is anywhere as near racist as liberals and minorities in this country claimed.

And I am tired of hearing opinons concerning the state of race relations in the U.S. from peoples of other countries where a minority of any stripe has yet to be elected to national office.

 

Well, like I said earlier, I have been challenged on much lesser issues. One that comes to mind was when I started a thread on whether Jesus was an Extrovert or an Introvert.

 

Good, logical, rational answer. Thanks, I appreciate that.

 

I wonder why President Obama can be called an African American alone. What about his white mother? I guess she doesn't matter. Or at least that's the way it seems. The numbers just don't seem to add up here.

 

I have pointed out to people here that Obama is half white. But those who opposed him never pointed out that fact, and many probably would not accept it ... though for the life of me I can't understand way.

His mother was quite a woman and very intelligent. It does not matter if we like her lifestyle or not. She was an intelligent woman. She should not be forgotten.

Yes, Obama is part African American and part white. Not sure which European countries his ancestors came from.

 

It's kind of funny... my mom and I both have naturally 'tanned' skin due to the European side of our family. I lived in Indiana, Florida, and Tennessee and I was always a 'white' person.

10 years ago we moved to Mexico as missionaries and now we are in South Texas in the ministry and all of the sudden I am 'Hispanic'. :laugh:

Great thoughts, Andy T!