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• • 17 Dec 08
  • 3:54 pm

  I do not misunderstand, or mis speak. As previously written, one should get some education on topics they wish to hold a discourse on. Obama needs a Black agenda, just as whites in power had and still have a White agenda. The first White agenda was to make Blacks slaves, to kill and steal the Indians land, later, it was to create a subjugative status during the civil war where immigration was advertised and upon arrival immgrants were given resources, and status over, and beyond those given Blacks/Afrimericans. (This most recent incarnation began with Reagan giving amnesty to immigrants South of …

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• • 12 Dec 08
  • 7:48 pm

  After twenty years of study and observation of the changing face of American racisms, I can say with sincere honesty most of the commentators on this matter are full of you-know-what. The United States is built on, and feeds a race based agenda of division, and in many, most, if not nearly all acts of major importance to the nation as a whole, such a foundation began and ends with a focus of serving the needs of Whites above all first, others second, and Afrimerican needs last. That is a systemic truth that is evident by the many studies, and statistics …

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• • 13 Dec 08
  • 7:11 pm

  Malcom X, Dr. King, and a whole host of others before, and after the civil rights actions of the 60's were talking about Afrimerican parity. The I have a dream speech is not just about White kids and Black kids playing together, (Go Read It), but that has been the part the White Power structure has focused on to the point Afrimericans have been lullabied into only seeing that, or just saying that too, dismissing the part about about a "prommisary Note", and "Insufficient funds". To let some folks tell it, the ills of the Afrimerican/Black community/race in/of the United States …

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• • 16 Dec 08
  • 4:53 am

  I concur with the previous respondent. The writer taking note of those who ask for money made note of "they" being Black which was suggestive that Blacks are the only one that ask for money. I'm Afrimerican/Black and I experience Whites, Blacks, Mexicans, and Asians asking me for money all the time, they are on the beg for whatever reason and I treat them all the same with a no because I don't have it to give. The reason that Blacks target, or appear to target Whites for a beg is because Whites are considered to have greater access to having, …

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• • 16 Dec 08
  • 11:31 pm

  President Obama spoke on how his grandmother made negative comments reflective of racism about Black men, but still showed him an all encompassing love. Racism, as it pertains to the Black/White divide has a plethora of nuances that are subtle to Blatant, and for some, because the outright widespread acceptance of blatant expressions of the pre 70's racisms are no longer condoned, more subtle forms have come along. If one were to look at racism as a physical injury not visible on the surface one could go to a doctor and describe the symptoms, and point to the area, or areas …

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