Pardon me for just a moment will you? I need to "air" something out for a minute here....
Let me get this straight...barack obama can refer to african-Americans as "mongrel people", implying that they, and really all of us, are made up (or have an ancestry of) mixed backgrounds and ethnicity's. It's ok for him to do that? REALLY NOW????
Ok so...If someone who
isn't black would've said the same thing...In the highly racially-motivated climate we live in these days...Would
THAT have been ok too???? See where I'm going with this? If everyone who
isn't black is going to be held to a different standard, then it's HIGH time those who are using that tactic get it thrown back in their face. So, I'm going to go right ahead and assume that the president made a racist comment, because, THAT is what would happen if someone other than him would've made this comment.
See folks....This racial BS needs to stop, and in order for that to happen, we have to have
EVERYONE INVOLVED playing nice with each other, respecting the differences instead of using them against one another. We cannot have one standard for one section of society, and another standard for another, and so on and so on. That's how this is supposed to go. That's what my mom taught me,...That's what I was taught in school. Living in "harmony"...All that stuff, 'ya know?
Link:
President Obama calls African-Americans a ‘mongrel people’(snips)
President Obama calls African-Americans a ‘mongrel people’
By Sam Youngman - 07/29/10 11:00 AM ET
NEW YORK — President Obama waded into the national race debate in an unlikely setting and with an unusual choice of words: telling daytime talk show hosts that African-Americans are “sort of a mongrel people.”
The president appeared on ABC’s morning talk show “The View” Thursday, where he talked about the forced resignation of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, his experience with race and his roots.
When asked about his background, which includes a black father and white mother, Obama said of African-Americans: "We are sort of a mongrel people."
"I mean we're all kinds of mixed up," Obama said. "That's actually true of white people as well, but we just know more about it."
The president did not appear to be making an inflammatory remark with his statement. The definition of mongrel as an adjective is defined as "of mixed breed, nature, or origin," according to dictionary.com.
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