Obama Addresses Racial "Anger"

[HeavenlyOne]

Originally Posted by 1399

It's hard to move on, forgive, etc if you are never apologized to. Some Americans minimize the affects of slavery on the black race in America and they completely forget all of the hate, barriers, etc blacks experienced for more than 100 years after the Emancipation. Entire "black" towns destroyed, men, women and children burned alive, pregnant ladies gutted in front of their husbands, black men serving in war returned home only to be lynched-- all happening in the 1900's-- years after we were "freed".


To not expect residual "anger" is just simply not realistic. It has to be dealt with, by every American. This is Obama's point.

This is why he should be our next President: he has enough courage and wisdom to realize that not everything is black and white, cut and dry. I am glad he did not disown Wright and I find what Wright said from the pulpit inexcusable, more than wrong.

My friend, white people were slaves centuries before and for a longer time than black people ever were. But I hold no resentment for that. I wasn't there.

For most of those born after 1960, they really don't have a clue. They weren't there or were too young to remember. I know there are areas where 'white power' still reigns supreme, even today, but *most* just don't have a clue, yet want to hold on to times past that they can only read about or listen to granny speak about.

My grandparents went through the depression, but I don't remain poor because they were. There are ancestors of mine who were brutally murdered and raped and maimed in the 1800's by white men taking their land, but I hold no ill will toward the white people today.

Oh, there are Indians who live that way. They live near me. I see them often. But you know what? Those people are so busy living with the hatred in their hearts for what they really know nothing about that they have nothing themselves. They think white man and America owe them everything, so they refuse to work. It's not good enough that they get free services and don't have to pay taxes just for being Indian, but they want it to go further and get back what belonged NOT to them, but to their ancestors who have long been gone.

It's time for all of us, regardless of race, to move on as one race...the human race.