How far have we really come?

African Americans could never be anywhere near as racist to whites as whites have been to them. They don’t have the power to do it. Not that they would if they did.

phrannie, please stop with the innuendo. What exactly has Obama done or said that has made you shudder?

And also. please point me to the reports where the press couldn’t find out about his “early” years, and where they tried and failed to find out how he paid for Harvard. I beleive the campaign has said he did it through hard work and loans. Loans he and Michelle just finished paying off last year.

And if you are referring to the ridiculous accusations going around about Khalid Al-Mansour somehow paying for Obama’s tuition. It is based on an interview given by former Manhattan Borough Presidnet Percy Sutton, who is 86 and in failing health. It has been denied by Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt : “Obama did not know and does not know Khalid al-Mansour,” and “Obama doesn’t have a relationship with Sutton and that ‘to our knowledge, no such letter was written.’ Obama was in Chicago, not New York, when he applied to Harvard.” And even Al-Mansour denied everthing Sutton said, but said “he is a dear friend, his health is not good.’ And even Sutton’s family released a statement retracting Percy Sutton’s story:

“The information Mr. Percy Sutton imparted on March 25 in a NY1 News interview regarding his connection to Barack Obama is inaccurate. As best as our family and the Chairman’s closest friends can tell, Mr. Sutton, now 86 years of age, misspoke in describing certain details and events in that television interview.

We regret this unfortunate incident and we ask good conscientious people to extend compassion and grace to Percy Sutton, a man who has served America in many capacities; an officer with the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II and as a public servant who was the first elected African-American Manhattan Borough President. “

So please do some research before you believe such scurrilous lies. Do you really think Obama is living some secret life for the past 20 years as some sleeper terrorist waiting to take over the country?

C’mon phrannie, I thought you were better than that. It is one thing to think he might raise taxes, but this is wing nut stuff.

I think everyone should be like me!

Both, black and white.

The world would be a much better place.

Haha. :] Justkidding.

I think when my generation grows older that we’ll be more diverse and accept more things from other race’s. I think there will be less racism, but there will still be ignorance. OF COURSE. We’ll just more acceptive of other people/races.

Phrannie, why was your post from yesterday changed? It doesn’t say the same thing as it did yesterday. The part where you question how the press couldn’t find anything about his “early years” and how “he paid for harvard” was removed, and the Jewish, White, and Hispanic racism part was added. Why?

So please do some research before you believe such scurrilous lies. Do you really think Obama is living some secret life for the past 20 years as some sleeper terrorist waiting to take over the country?

Please don’t quit your day job to be a mind reader…you’ll go broke…

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“Slow progress overall on all sides”

What sides are you talking about? Are Afrrican Americans one of the sides? Have they done something to contribute to the discrimination and racist treatment they have received, and still do in many places?

“sadly there are some who have made entire careers of ‘stirring the pot’”

Can you please be specific, and tell exactly what you are talking about? Are you talking about Jesse Helms, or Jesse Jackson? Who do you think stirred the pot of racism more?

“that’s how they make a living”

Who is making a living “stirring the pot”? Anyone who fights their entire lives against racism? Or those who stand up for it?

“hopefully we will indeed start looking ‘at the content of their character’ and not ‘the color of their skin’ soon.”

And MOST of us have started. That is why Barack Obama will be your next president.

It’s hard to compare the current generation with previous ones when it comes to something like racism. Institutionalized racism obviously still exists, but not nearly to the extent that it did in the early 20th century, for example. Racism on a personal level also still exists, but I don’t think people today are “more racist” than they were 20 or 50 or 100 years ago. You have to consider that people these days are not growing up amidst a climate of segregation, as they did before. People of different races interact far more than in the past, in daily life. This is true in schools, churches, social circles, and elsewhere. So I think there may be a perception that racial tension has increased, but in reality it hasn’t; there is simply more interracial interaction, which some accept and some do not.

Slow progress overall on all sides - sadly there are some who have made entire careers of ‘stirring the pot’ - that’s how they make a living - hopefully we will indeed start looking ‘at the content of their character’ and not ‘the color of their skin’ soon.