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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Using Obama as an example is ridiculous. The man grew up in an educated middle class white family and went to private school.  While he had to face some of the prejudice that other young black men face (despite the fact that he's half white, he looks black and people respond to him as black), he had enormous advantages by comparison, in particular growing up in a family where people expected to be well-served by educational institutions.

Give me an example of someone who grew up in public housing with black parents who had drug habits who didn't finish high school.  There are folks like that out there.  Tell me how they achieved their success. That would be a good example.

But using Obama to prove your point is rather odd and suggests  a lack of knowledge about this community in general. [/quote]

Oh, I suppose it was a white man who held a gun to heads and told people they had to stay in public housing in neighborhoods where there  is a high cost of living and no jobs.  It was he who held the gun to their heads and forced them to do drugs and get addicted.  It was he who stood armed guard at the door of their high school  and kept them from entering, for no good reason, to keep them from getting an education.

No, that problem is entirely within that community itself, it is its own enemy.   [/quote]Oh fer cryin' out loud! Please address the point I made - that the example is not reflective of the community you're talking about, regardless of the point you want to make.  Your failure to address the specific point doesn't reflect well on you.  I hope you're not reflective of your community.[/quote]

Address your point?  Seriously?   You make it out as though Obama lived a blessed life and was the one in a triillion where all the stars aligned and everything was perfect.  It wasn't.  His father wasn't around, and what of him was around is demonized as a foreign Marxist and Atheist.  His stepdad?  Demonized as a foreign Muslim.  His mom wasn't around for a lot of his life either  Shuttled around from place to place, unable to put down roots. Raised for a while by some old-school midwestern white grandparents, and that magically solves all the ills of a broken home?  Put himself through law school and only finished finally paying off school debts just a few years ago?

And "half white" is totally non relevant.  To hear you tell it, maybe we are supposed to think Obama had the membership card, secret handshake and decoder ring for the secret White Society club, and so everyone just rolled out the red carpet and said "Yes sir, Mr. Obama sir - right this way to sit with the whites and all your needs will be attended to".  Now THAT is ridiculous.

What a crock.[/quote]

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