impressed with Obama's Black Caucus speech
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But Obama can? I don't get it.
Our Junior League is open to anyone who shows an interest in public service. I have learned a lot from being a member -- organizing charity events, working attic sales with high-end items for sale at great bargains, chairing art discovery events for kids who no longer get exposure to art due to budget cuts in the public schools.
Obama: We have a hard struggle ahead and we can't quit. It's time to march for the economy/jobs like we marched for civil rights. Noone is going to do this for you, so quit whining, take off your slippers and put on your marching shoes.
BR: Obama said "quit complaining and take off your slippers" so it is now okay for me to say all black people are lazy and shiftless and that is why they don't have jobs .............. even though lots of white folks are out of work too.
BR: Obama said "quit complaining and take off your slippers" so it is now okay for me to say all black people are lazy and shiftless and that is why they don't have jobs .............. even though lots of white folks are out of work too.
I never said that "all black people are lazy and shiftless." That being said, the unemployment rate is higher for blacks. Just Google. We need to help fix that.
I have survived the bullets that I expected, so I'm not going to keep on being defensive. Being controverial is part of what increases posts on message boards.
BTW I see where y'all are coming from.
Maxine Waters (D) Cali. and some other members of the CBC are pretty upset over Obama's speech. (news source) I guess she and the others who were upset by his comments didn't listen to his Inauguration Speech, in which he talked about people needing to get off their seat, stop complaining and doing something. Just another stump speech, though it may be the best part of his stump speech. Perhaps he should have addressed the entire country instead of the CBC. I imagine most people would be outraged, given unemployment rates and high taxation on the people who really create the jobs.
The content of the speech reminds me of Bill Cosby's challenge to the black communtiy some years back, as well as the eggshell approach caucasians need to take when weighing in on the message.
What strikes me is the annoying need Ivy League educated politicians have to adopt the dialect of the common man when speaking to them. Where were Obama's 'g's' at the ending of verbs? Amazing. Only Hilary Clinton's speech at Selma a few years back comes to mind as more insulting to blacks...Al Gore also had an incredible ebonic moment in the past too, but I can't recall the context.
What strikes me is the annoying need Ivy League educated politicians have to adopt the dialect of the common man when speaking to them. Where were Obama's 'g's' at the ending of verbs? Amazing. Only Hilary Clinton's speech at Selma a few years back comes to mind as more insulting to blacks...Al Gore also had an incredible ebonic moment in the past too, but I can't recall the context.
To add to the craziness, now, the AP is being accused of racism because their transcript was a literal translation and not cleaned up for grammar.
Obama said, "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do."
Because they did not "clean" it up and put the "g's" back on complainin', grumblin', and cryin' they are racist.
African-American author Karen Hunter complained the news service transcribed Obama's speech without cleaning it up as other outlets did--specifically including the "dropped g's."
Sorry...give me a friggin break. If they were doing a transcript of exactly what was being said, it is accurate. Do court reporters type correct grammar when recording testimony? Nope. They type what they hear.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline...iption-obama-cbc-speech-racist-173438340.html
Obama said, "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do."
Because they did not "clean" it up and put the "g's" back on complainin', grumblin', and cryin' they are racist.
African-American author Karen Hunter complained the news service transcribed Obama's speech without cleaning it up as other outlets did--specifically including the "dropped g's."
Sorry...give me a friggin break. If they were doing a transcript of exactly what was being said, it is accurate. Do court reporters type correct grammar when recording testimony? Nope. They type what they hear.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline...iption-obama-cbc-speech-racist-173438340.html
I think dropped g's are always a little more fiery, and sometimes more preachy. I've never associated it with race myself. I associate it with Sarah Palin. I do it sometimes myself. I think everyone is going to perceive this differently. When I first heard a snippet of it, I didn't know who he was speaking to. I thought he was just making a strong message of how he was determined turn around his dwindling approval rating and get back on track. I thought it was purely a campaign speech. This could be a pretty good message to anyone regardless of color, who is disillusioned at the choices we have for the 2012 election. Now that I can put his speech in context, I still see it as a campaign speech where he was really focused on his base. The bottom line for me is that it wasn't the best speech in the world, it was forced and overy dramatic, but he showed a more determined side of himself that people have been waiting for.
Interesting that he gets preachy and fired-up for a crowd that will support him no matter what. There is a fine line between appealing to a voter and pandering. I also remember John Kerry's disaster of ambling up to a rural sporting goods shop early in his presidential campaign, trying to shed the image of a Bay State liberal, and proclaiming "I need me a huntin' license". Yikes.