Obama - A new twist to an intriguing family history

What makes you think that all blacks are for reparations and all other races "aren't"?? Do you speak for everyone who isn't black? I think not.
By the way, I have several black friends who think the idea of reparations are silly - however they do prefer that the playing field is leveled so black people arent so disproportionately undereducated and living on the lower edge of society - this I agree with 100%.

On the other side of the coin, I have many white friends that believe reparations are a fair way to compensate for the use of slave labor to build wealth in families that exist to this very day here.

I honestly dont know where I stand on the position of reparations as there are many aspects to the debate to consider. something must be done however to heal the wounds that are still around from before the civil rights movement.

Fair enough, I will not treat it as such. I still fail to realize how this is going to affect him a whole lot more than the media and some people make it out to be. I will admit it is a unique situation, however Obama is a unique man and I for one would love to see him become the first "black" president - even if he is half white.

Sorry, I gotta go. For the answer to your question, you'll just have to read or re-read this thread.

Oh, and there might be another new thread that Gore will need your help on. Seems he must have listened after all to all the complaints about him contributing to global warming himself with all those private jet flights. So he decided to go commercial. But unfortunately, he still couldn't shake his elitist lifestyle, and got caught trying to bypass the airport security we all have to deal with. Al, Al, Al. Whatever are we going to do with you?

anything but al gore.....al sharpton, ralph nader....hell ill even vote for "bill"ary before gore

Because his resume is empty. He's not qualified. He meets 'requirements' as stated in the Constitution .. but his empty resume says that he's not qualified. that's how somoene could not vote for him.

Funny thing, I have read and read this thread and I still dont have an answer. Care to enlighten us?

Are you trying to derail your own thread? Why bring Gore into this, what does he have to do with Obama?!?

Of course not. I just know how much Gore means to you, and thought you would want to know.

Gore and Obama, well with all the misteps, Obama's campaign sure is starting to resemble Gore's 2000 campaign more than anyone else's.

And my ancestors were also... a fact I didn't know until a few years ago. One of Colin Powell's trusted aides (a general that I know personally) was the descendant of the largest slave-owning family in the South. There's no evidence that this aide is prejudiced (he and Powell were quite close and I know he visited Powell's house for dinner a number of times.)


I don't think I'd advise them to try that tacitc. It'll make them look petty if that's the only problem they can find with Obama. They'd do better to focus on his issues.

Undereducated? Any black person can get a college education for practically free in the US today. If they are undereducated, it is by choice.



Well, if there are instances where wealth exists today from a cotton farm 160 years ago, then it's due more to good money management than anything else. Cotton fields are not in the same class as oil fields.