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Considering all the horrid racist and anti-gay commentary coming from the Republican right, the idea of picking on her statement is laughable. Much ado about nothing to whip up an anti-Obama frenzy.
uhhh… you DO know the obamas hate the gays too, dont you?
don’t be naive.
“that’s just it, most people are proud of their rise to greatness, they don’t see it as an entitlement at the expense of the nation that placed them there.
it’s ingratitude. plain and simple.”
I’m gonna call that statement what it is- bull sh*t. That is your interpretation of someone’s mindset and it shows not only a lack of empathy, but of American history as well. Sorry legion- I really like you, I respect the right to your opinion but you need to read snappy’s post. Really read it. And if you need to define what people who feel entitled look lik, look at your own party- there’s plenty right there.
Apples & oranges, Legion. I’m proud of what I’ve done too. But I also realize I had advantages. My family were the integrating factor in a black neighborhood in DC. Even so, I got preferential treatment in elementary school. It was a given that I’d go on to higher ed whereas many of my classmates were shuttled into trade schools. I was a bit of an activist in college simply because I remembered being allowed to drink out of water fountains that my friends couldn’t. Etc. I’d be less than proud of my family if they had supported segregation just as I’ve been less than proud of our country for many of its failings. None of those things is an entitlement, they’re human rights.
snappy,
I hear what you’re saying, but we are not debating a well known historical legacy of division. what we are debating is a statement by a woman who had already risen to the top of society in this nation and still felt the need to make a statement rife with all that historical legacy which we have obviously worked hard to overcome.
too many people gave up their lives over the centuries, black and white and brown and yellow and red and all the other colors in between, for her to stand there on a platform of privilege and deny that.
rob- maybe you should comment on things you know about- like….like….
quote:
Considering all the horrid racist and anti-gay commentary coming from the Republican right, the idea of picking on her statement is laughable. Much ado about nothing to whip up an anti-Obama frenzy.
uhhh… you DO know the obamas hate the gays too, dont you?
don’t be naive.
*rob*
In my fruitless attempt to switch the topic from politics to something even less productive:
How would the law punish Siamese twins if one of the twins committed murder without the other being involved?
Hmmm …interesting
http://www.slate.com/id/2240595/
or the egyptian surgeon
second to bin laden.
how underpriviliged they were.
of course they had to blow up America.
lol
Legion
the nigerian is completely an anamoly, we all know that
Posted by: gemini10 at January 7, 2010 3:07 PM
gemini10,
yeah and so was the son of the billionaire Bin Laden.
“that’s just it, most people are proud of their rise to greatness, they don’t see it as an entitlement at the expense of the nation that placed them there.
it’s ingratitude. plain and simple.”
I’m gonna call that statement what it is- bull sh*t. That is your interpretation of someone’s mindset and it shows not only a lack of empathy, but of American history as well. Sorry legion- I really like you, I respect the right to your opinion but you need to read snappy’s post. Really read it. And if you need to define what people who feel entitled look lik, look at your own party- there’s plenty right there.
Apples & oranges, Legion. I’m proud of what I’ve done too. But I also realize I had advantages. My family were the integrating factor in a black neighborhood in DC. Even so, I got preferential treatment in elementary school. It was a given that I’d go on to higher ed whereas many of my classmates were shuttled into trade schools. I was a bit of an activist in college simply because I remembered being allowed to drink out of water fountains that my friends couldn’t. Etc. I’d be less than proud of my family if they had supported segregation just as I’ve been less than proud of our country for many of its failings. None of those things is an entitlement, they’re human rights.
ROB:
than what else is the reason??
snappy,
I hear what you’re saying, but we are not debating a well known historical legacy of division. what we are debating is a statement by a woman who had already risen to the top of society in this nation and still felt the need to make a statement rife with all that historical legacy which we have obviously worked hard to overcome.
too many people gave up their lives over the centuries, black and white and brown and yellow and red and all the other colors in between, for her to stand there on a platform of privilege and deny that.