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Title: Obama Victory Buoys Black America
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URL Source: http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=5001096&page=1
Published: Jun 5, 2008
Author: STEVE OSUNSAMI
Post Date: 2008-06-05 12:09:45 by PoliticallyIncorrect
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Across the country on black radio, they were calling it the happiest day in America. At his studios in Dallas, Tom Joyner, a nationally syndicated black radio host, was jubilant over Sen. Barack Obama's ride to clinching the Democratic nomination for president. Taking a call, he said, "Isn't this a great morning?" "It's a historic morning," the caller said, jokingly correcting him. Joyner's enthusiasm was endless and echoed in black households across the country. "If you have a bad day at the office," he said, "no matter -- it's a Barack Obama day. If you go to the gas pump and you have to pump $80 worth of gas, so what -- it's Barack Obama day." Obama defied a long-held belief among African Americans -- that America would never be ready for the moment when an African American would be able to truly announce, "I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States." Obama's nomination is a watershed moment, said Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author of "How the GOP Can Keep the White House, How the Democrats Can Take it Back." "None of the stereotypical negatives apply in this case," he said. "That's why you see so many African Americans rushing to him. That's why you see so many African Americans cheering -- because, for the first time in a long time, we see a guy who's come along that represents the best and the brightest in terms of achievement attainment." Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a veteran of the civil rights struggle, said that Obama's victory speech Tuesday night in Minneapolis brought tears to his eyes. He said Obama's achievement makes the beatings he suffered and the deaths of so many civil rights leaders seem worthwhile. "Just a few short years ago, in a state like the state of Alabama, in the city of Montgomery, blacks and whites couldn't ride in a taxi cab together, couldn't stay in the same hotel, couldn't eat in the same restaurant, people could not register to vote," Lewis said. "And now, these same people, their offspring, their children," Lewis added, "are registered [to vote], and they voted for Barack Obama in the primary and will vote for him again in November." Lewis and many others said that young black Americans now have a powerful new role model who is neither a musician nor a professional athlete. At an Atlanta-area summer camp, 9-year-old Jeremiah Darden proudly announced, "If Barack Obama can do it, I can do it." Eleven-year-olds Bresha Baker, Jalisa Conklin and Colbi Nelson have been following Obama's bid for the White House and seemed far wiser than their years. "It makes me feel that I can do anything I wanna do, and succeed in it, and maybe even run for president one day," Baker said. It was surprising," Conklin piped in, "and it was just amazing to, you know, see an African American be a nominee." "If I was old enough to vote," Nelson said, "I'd vote for Barack Obama." At Morehouse College, a historically black university for men, students said they were moved beyond words by Obama's nomination. "Our alumnus, Dr. Martin Luther King, talked about having a dream," said Morehouse student Brandon Douglas, 20. "But the bad part about a dream is you wake up, and when you wake up, that dream might not be a reality. But this morning, I woke up and the dream was actually a reality." In a historical coincidence, Obama will officially accept his party's nomination in late August, on the 45th anniversary of the events that inspired Martin Luther King's famous speech.
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#1. To: PoliticallyIncorrect (#0)
So this means we can disband the EEOC, right?
The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice.
No, our version of the Nelson/Winnie Mandela, ANC-nightmare is just beginning.
In defense of Obama at least unlike Mandela he did not kill anyone to get into power
A gay choir director at Trinity United Church of Christ might beg to differ if he were still alive to do so.
God is always good!
Mandelas rap sheet Source: The State v. Nelson Mandela et al, Supreme Court of South Africa, Transvaal Provincial Division, 1963-1964, Indictment. * The full list of munitions and charges read as follows: • One count under the South African Suppression of Communism Act No. 44 of 1950, charging that the accused committed acts calculated to further the achievement of the objective of communism; • One count of contravening the South African Criminal Law Act (1953), which prohibits any person from soliciting or receiving any money or articles for the purpose of achieving organized defiance of laws and country; and • Two counts of sabotage, committing or aiding or procuring the commission of the following acts: 1) The further recruitment of persons for instruction and training, both within and outside the Republic of South Africa, in: (a) the preparation, manufacture and use of explosives—for the purpose of committing acts of violence and destruction in the aforesaid Republic, (the preparation and manufacture of explosives, according to evidence submitted, included 210,000 hand grenades, 48,000 anti-personnel mines, 1,500 time devices, 144 tons of ammonium nitrate, 21.6 tons of aluminum powder and a ton of black powder); (b) the art of warfare, including guerrilla warfare, and military training generally for the purpose in the aforesaid Republic; (ii) Further acts of violence and destruction, (this includes 193 counts of terrorism committed between 1961 and 1963); (iii) Acts of guerrilla warfare in the aforesaid Republic; (iv) Acts of assistance to military units of foreign countries when involving the aforesaid Republic; (v) Acts of participation in a violent revolution in the aforesaid Republic, whereby the accused, injured, damaged, destroyed, rendered useless or unserviceable, put out of action, obstructed, with or endangered: (a) the health or safety of the public; (b) the maintenance of law and order; (c) the supply and distribution of light, power or fuel; (d) postal, telephone or telegraph installations; (e) the free movement of traffic on land; and (f) the property, movable or immovable, of other persons or of the state.
Only because the United States is not majority black; this reduces the intensity of both white opposition and black factional conflict.
The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice.
Title: Barak Obama - 50 Lies and Counting
"Our alumnus, Dr. Martin Luther King, talked about having a dream," said Morehouse student Brandon Douglas, 20. "But the bad part about a dream is you wake up, and when you wake up, that dream might not be a reality. But this morning, I woke up and the dream was actually a reality."
#2. To: Tauzero (#1)
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#3. To: X-15 (#2)
#4. To: robnoel (#3)
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In defense of Obama at least unlike Mandela he did not kill anyone to get into power
#5. To: RickyJ (#4)
#6. To: robnoel (#3)
In defense of Obama at least unlike Mandela he did not kill anyone to get into power
#7. To: robnoel (#3)
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