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Originally posted by AliWV
This thread started out as "DAVID DUKE URGES WHITES TO VOTE AND "PUSH FOR POWER"," got no response, then switched to Robert Byrd instead of David Duke.
Robert Byrd has been dead for several months, so lets just leave him out of it.
Obama was addressing a black caucus, but his comments could have applied to all of us.
This conversation seems like a silly waste of time.
Originally posted by Hefficide
Originally posted by saltheart foamfollower
reply to post by Hefficide
Nice attempt to take out the Black Caucus component.
There is nothing to take out. There is nothing wrong with a President rallying members of his party to fire up constituents.
Originally posted by saltheart foamfollower
Yes, the story itself could be considered the problem, maybe on purpose?
On purpose? As in giving the Tea Party yet another angle of attack?
Originally posted by saltheart foamfollower
But no one else could get away with it and you KNOW it.
Get away with what exactly?
Telling congressmen to get voters motivated to get to the polls?
Dealing with members of the black caucus?
Using the word "church"?
Using the word "barber shop"?
Being President?
My point is, I don't even see the issue here, much less the reason to complain about it. As corrupt as politicians are there has to be better material to kvetch about than this.
edit on 9/19/10 by Hefficide because: (no reason given)
I am part-black and grew up in a predominately white rural area in South-central Pennsylvania. I can take you to quite a few old 'company towns' in that area to show you where the white slaves lived. They were Slavic, Scots, Irish and Italian. They had jobs and were paid for their work, but the only place they had to spend their money was the 'company store'. They ended up spending more on food alone than their paycheck was worth.
Originally posted by witness63
No, there never were any white slaves in the U.S.. There were white indentured servants in the 17th and 18th Centuries who were treated like slaves, but that was usually for 4-5 years. Their conditions were very bad, but they were not kept as slaves from birth like blacks born in this country, and they did have certain citizenship rights after their contracts were over that free blacks almost never had before the Civil War.