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10-10-2008, 05:47 PM
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During the revolt/revolution/liberation heady days of the sixties, for some, it was like joining a club ... --Only this club went against all most people's parents were for, and many traditions ... It was new, exciting, full of questions, and MUCH beneficial came out of it, some of which we enjoy today ... Though I shared a belief for change and improvement, and also LIKED where I lived, I did not join those clubs, though many people I knew did ... I never bought into a violent revolution, but some did---as in the Chicago 7 ... My boyfriend at the time, was a musician, film student and successful conscientious objecter .... Somewhat later he became a Jehovah's Witness, and now he is a conservative Republican, lover of George Bush ... My association with him reflects none of the above ... And my current association with him is based on who he is today---a nice, bald, fat conservative Republican ... I would suspect many of the Club revolutionaries and hippies I knew would be singularly embarrassed by their previous karmas ... The ex is not---he is somewhat the same guy, but with different values ... I am confounded by Ayers' contemporary comments, but I feel that if he were a current threat to society, he would have been called out ... Obama's associations with him were in today's educational arena working under the Annenberg umbrella under which there are Republican connections as well... 
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10-10-2008, 05:57 PM
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looking at other posts here, it's working.
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10-10-2008, 06:04 PM
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10-10-2008, 06:07 PM
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10-10-2008, 07:08 PM
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and we wonder why our pols can't work together. all these stereotypes being flung about....but we expect our govt, which is made up of our fellow citizens, to rise above all of this?
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10-10-2008, 07:16 PM
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http://www.factcheck.org/askfactchec..._economic.html
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10-10-2008, 07:23 PM
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"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites." "There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white." "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names." "I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela." These are real quotes from his book. I guess it's a matter of opinion as to what he really meant while writing it, but I was insulted when I read it myself. Sorry, but I don't like racism on ANY front.
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10-10-2008, 07:53 PM
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Wait---hot off the presses-------faster faster pussycat kill kill----splat ... Palin abuses power---it is official !!!! As if some did not know ...See AP release ... I am gone too----for a celebratory bottle and a knish ...
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10-10-2008, 08:52 PM
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Oh. I didn't ask about the other thing. I think that's what missive means. I hate poi;I hope you do,too.
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10-10-2008, 08:57 PM
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First of all, did you honestly read the whole book or were these snippets? Again, you have to read everything in their full context. Having said that, I didnt find what he was saying offensive or racist at all. Is it offensive if I say that my role models were white women because identify more with them? My husband has ethnicity on his mother's side, is it bad if he chooses role models from that ethnicity? It is only natural, especially in this country, to embrace that which makes us diffferent. I think it is easier for a white person to sit and judge a man for being racist when that person has never been judged themselves for the same thing.
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