09-03-2008, 12:43 PM
G.Irish Wrote:If being black was such a big advantage why hasn't Al Sharpton won the presidency (he ran in 2004)? Why is there only 1 black Senator and 8 black representatives when blacks make up 12% of the population? It's a conspiracy! Those black people are only there because of whitey guilt and affirmation action!ahem. There are 40 blacks in congress +2 non-voting (and Im going to pretend you didnt bring up Al Sharpton, but if youd really like to go down that road Id be happy to) but if that still bothers you, maybe you should look at the number of blacks running for office. It aint 12% of seats. Gotta enter the game if you want to play.
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but lets talk about how *outrageous* "white guilt" is.
our own Tom Davis flatly said that whites could rid themselves of 400 years of guilt by voting for Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama
Black pundit Shelby Steele said the same thing in his book on Obama
Ralph Nader said it, so did Ben Stein.
but I guess these guys are clueless about politics....
Why the media orgy over Obama? The same media that gives racists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson a platform to speak from has always been biased towards minorities.
If being black isnt a big advantage, then why is the media repeatedly Obama black, when he isnt actually? If being black were'nt an advantage, they would call him mixed race, half-white, or wouldnt pound race into our heads at all. (which is how it should be)
Why the rhetoric comparing him to MLK, why is it so "historic" when an american gets nominated for president?
Why has Obama used the race card so much to remind whities that they are racist if its not to guilt them?
Why has the media written articles flat out saying that if you dont vote for obama you are a racist, like here
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and in last week's Newsweek "If Obama loses, our children will grow up thinking of equal opportunity as a myth ... To the rest of the world, a rejection of the promise he represents ... would be taken for what it would be: sign and symptom of a nation's historical decline"
Even liberal and famous republican hater Bill Maher recognized
ÔÇ£there is a problem...with the media gushing over him too much...The coverage after, that I was watching, from MSNBC, I mean these guys were ready to have sex with him.ÔÇØ
so how absurd is all this, Gerald?
maybe you dont like the term "white guilt", but regardless, Obama being black is a big advantage. A big net advantage.