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Mixed America... Threat or Solution?
Mar 21, 2008 | 8:59 AM
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You know... when I was a mixed kid in the USA in the 60's and 70's like Barak was... some folks asked you too pick a side.  Are you white or are you black.

And if you didn't pick a side these same folks accused us of having an identity crisis.
I was asked many times by folks "What do you consider yourself to be, White or Black?"  Lately this and other common phrases I heard as a kid growing up in the mid west have been coming to the surface like repressed memories as I read all the opposition to Barak Obama's presidential campaingn.

"It's the children of a mixed marriage who suffer the most", is another one of many cliche' statements heard by someone like me who grows up in the mid western US.

Barak chose law and politics... I chose soldiering...  we suffered many of the same things but if you ask me he turned out a heck of alot better than I did and I trust him.  I trust him and I want folks to know that if anyone is prepared to judge him I am.  I have a point of reference that goes with the shared experience of being a mixed American. 

You might say I'm putting to much on this whole mixed thing... but I'm speaking of the spiritual side of the sufferings we all face in this country due to our shared history.  Mixed Americans are a way to solutions and evolutions away from the mixed inheritance of religious and ethnic prejudices.  I believe it is the next step in this country towards a greater understanding of what freedom means to each and every human individual.

Will electing a man like Barack Hussein Obama as President mean great stride in racial understanding and an expansion in the understanding of human freedom?  That is for every voter to decide?  Surely the plain idea of it is a threat to some... a solution to others.

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DfDeportation read my blog view my photos
Mar 21, 2008 | 12:52 PM

Only the ETHNIC HUSTLERS worry about this stuff. Fortunately, they only make up about 20% of the voting population. The other 80% of us Americans have already moved ahead since 1964. You're either an American or you're not! You either love this country or you don't, or are somewhere in between. We know where Barak Obama and Jeremiah Wright stand now that we're peeling away the outer skin of this fruit...
LATINAWOMAN read my blog view my photos
Mar 21, 2008 | 1:36 PM

Good Friday morning . I'll be in complete shock if Hillary or Obama win the presidency . Unfortunately ,(I believe ) this is still a White Man's world .
statueman read my blog view my photos
Mar 21, 2008 | 6:26 PM

Hello Df and Latinawoman

Df- I was born in 1964 so I think you may be somewhat off base on timing given my childhood experiences but I think your main idea is right on.

LW - I remember once hearing a person I was working with generalize and say that 'white boys always gotta try to be in charge'. While this may be generally true I've found that bossy people come in many colors. One would think folks who put so much stock in being white would want to elect a black man into office so someone else would have a chance to screw everything up.
TexasTruBlu read my blog view my photos
Mar 21, 2008 | 7:46 PM

We have a problem in this country that all white people are seen as rich and evil while all people of color are seen as victims. I know people of color who are much richer and more successful than I am. I know white people who are drug abusers and bad people. I know people of all colors who have done bad things, so why is it fashionable to blame anglos for everything bad in this world? How come it's alright to say racist things regarding situations which happened when my ancestors were in Ireland starving and hiding from press gangs and think it's okay to make me and mine pay? If it's wrong for me to generalize based on ethnicity, religion or race, then it's wrong for other people to do that as well. Where's the outcry? Why can Senator Obama vilify his grandmother and nobody cares, while his pastor uses vicious speculation to raise race based outrage? If Sen. Obama is elected president and fails to adhere to the desires of his Afrocentric supporters, will they blame his "unfortunate white ancestry"?
statueman read my blog view my photos
Mar 21, 2008 | 8:15 PM

Texas - you start with...
We have a problem in this country that all white people are seen as rich and evil while all people of color are seen as victims.
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Recent polls show that you are right on with that one... Yup, believe it or not a majority of Americans think just like you!

Then you end with -
If Sen. Obama is elected president and fails to adhere to the desires of his Afrocentric supporters, will they blame his "unfortunate white ancestry"?
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Oh no ... trust me on that. The only thing Euro genes do is throw his rythm off.
craftyguy read my blog
Mar 22, 2008 | 12:54 AM

so electing someone because of his race is the way we move this country forward?Obama is bad for America this guy shouldn't even be in the running except for a bunch of idiots who think we owe this to the black man ..hey they got away with O.J. OK not to mention Michael Jackson and for the record Rodney King got what he deserved..how much longer do we have to feel guilty over slavery?it was wrong OK ..stop whining and get a job
statueman read my blog view my photos
Mar 22, 2008 | 7:45 AM

so electing someone because of his race is the way we move this country forward?
-craftyguy

Hasn't the last 230 years already proved that?


how much longer do we have to feel guilty over slavery?it was wrong OK ..stop whining and get a job
-craftyguy

Thankyou so much, I will! Can I put you down as a reference?
This_Aint_Your_Land read my blog view my photos
Mar 24, 2008 | 12:12 PM

You know... when I was a mixed kid in the USA in the 60's and 70's like Barak was... some folks asked you too pick a side. Are you white or are you black.

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What's your mix. You look like a cross between caucasian and Snow White.
FESKJS read my blog view my photos
Mar 25, 2008 | 12:32 AM

I don't care what color the man is, he does not have the experience and his agenda is questionable!

The fact that he made the statement that his Grandmother was a "Typical White Woman" shows that he is nothing but a racist!
statueman read my blog view my photos
Mar 25, 2008 | 4:38 AM

FESKJS

That's right... we all know that anyone who uses the word typical is a racist. Especially when they are talking about their own grand mama. For shame...
FESKJS read my blog view my photos
Mar 25, 2008 | 5:39 AM

Well let me clarify because it seems to have went over your head.

If I were to make a statement, and in that statement I were to include "He is a typical Black man" I would catch hell.

I would have the NAACP, ACLU, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton and who knows what other mountains falling on me.

They would have me branded as a charter member of the KKK!!

Or possibly it did not go over your head. Maybe this is the way your "other half" sees it.

A Black man can say something racial and we look the other way. If a White man says the same thing then he's a scourge!

Neither one is right for saying anything like this and racism will never end until people stop referring to one and other by color.
statueman read my blog view my photos
Mar 25, 2008 | 7:18 AM

"Neither one is right for saying anything like this and racism will never end until people stop referring to one and other by color."

I believe that too... unfortunately those are the cards we have been dealt. Richard Pryor went to Africa and stopped using the N word in his comedy. Bill Cosby made criticisms of black America and now every closet racist envolks his name to legitimize their own feeling of superiority.

Now the big ploy is to do what you're doing strait from the movie Rapper on the Roof.

IIIIIfffff I were a Black Man
A yada dada dida yada dida dada dada doooooo
FESKJS read my blog view my photos
Mar 26, 2008 | 8:35 PM

Actually there for just a moment, and I mean just a moment, I thought you might have been able to carry out an intelligent correspondence.

Now looking back over your other entries it becomes clear. It is you that are a racist with the poor me attitude.

So I say to you, wallow in it. You will never be anything more than what you are. That is truly a shame.
statueman read my blog view my photos
Mar 26, 2008 | 8:51 PM

Bob Hope said the best gift folks would have is the ability to laugh at themselves. You are repeating the redundant arguements of the double reverse racist crowd who don't know that you cannot call a minority a racist by definition only those in the majority or a part of the more powerful racial group can be a racist.

If it makes you feel better I will admit to being a racist. However since I have no power to enact the process of racism I shall leave that to those... like yourself who can only assume how unlucky and pitiful I must feel to be who I am.
FESKJS read my blog view my photos
Mar 26, 2008 | 9:24 PM

Well it's plain to see that you did not use the student loans offered to you through the GI Bill. If you were indeed in the military, on that I have my doubts.

This one last time I will enlighten you, although I don't know why I bother.

Racism is a social action based upon assumed differences.

And you don't have to answer, I come to this site to post opinions and have spirited correspondence with others who wish the same.

I am not here to educate idiots!!
statueman read my blog view my photos
Mar 26, 2008 | 9:37 PM

They carry on about what "could have happened". But fortunately nothing did.
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If I were to make a statement, and in that statement I were to include "He is a typical Black man" I would catch hell.
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A Black man can say something racial and we look the other way. If a White man says the same thing then he's a scourge!
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I am not here to educate idiots!!
FESKJS read my blog view my photos
Mar 26, 2008 | 10:07 PM

Well against my better judgment I'm going to respond to this idiocy.

Oh never mind, your doing a better job of making my point then I could.
spacealien read my blog view my photos
Mar 27, 2008 | 12:54 PM

am i racist? you bet!!! EVERYONE else in the GALAXY knows for a fact you earthlings ARE AN INFERIOR SPECIES!!!!!!!!! or does that make me a speciesist???
aznorthstar read my blog view my photos
Mar 27, 2008 | 4:30 PM

Statueman...are you saying that because you, playing the 1/2 card of a black man, can not enact the power (your words) of racism because your in the minority?

Meaning, blacks cannot be racist because they are considered a minority? If so, that is an interesting point of view, since the definition of racism has nothing, zero, nada, zilch to do with how many people admit to belonging to a race!
statueman read my blog view my photos
Mar 27, 2008 | 6:40 PM

aznorthstar

only by definition... we don't call anyone plain old prejudiced or biased anymore... no we all like to go for the gusto and call folks racist, you know, like spark up the ovens racist.

-admit to belonging to a race!-
What does that mean? And why would my comments evolk such seeming anger in some who have posted here? Why does Obama have to be a racist? Why do I have to be a racist? Why is anyone who disagrees with you folks who cry racist a racist?

spacealien

Thank God... somebody with a sense of humor!
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I'm a retired vet who loves to come up with donut shop solutions through soup kitchen prophecies. My goal is to encourage the growth of alternative sentencing through "habilitation" programs. These quiet unsung organizations need our quiet unsung support. (Edit May 24, 2008, Of course since then I've been getting into more interesting material.) _________________________
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Mc Cain by a landslide for President (See Archive January 2007 "A Muslim for President?") _________________________
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