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sadie44883
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Damn, Richard!
What did we do to you?? That was kinda juvenile, don't you think?
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5/9/2008, 7:58 am
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Enjoy the quotes, I hope you get the same warm, fuzzy feeling that I did. (Please note that Obama's book was published when he was but a babe in the woods at 34 years old and not yet in politics. He has since said: “Certain passages have proven to be inconvenient politically.” Indeed.
“There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”
He added: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.” (Referring to life at Occidental College in Los Angeles.)
"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when i began to suspect that by doing do i was ingratiating myself to whites."
“The minority assimilates into the dominant culture, not the other way around. Only white culture should be neutral and objective. Only white culture could be non-racial, willing to adopt the occasional exotic into its ranks. Only white culture had individuals."
"Reverend Wright shrugged. 'Some of my fellow clergy don't appreciate what we're about. They feel like we're too radical."
"In fact, whites are so heartless and devious that we can no longer expect anything from them."
"I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."
"That hate hadn't gone away, blaming white people - some cruel, some ignorant - sometimes a single face, sometimes a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."
"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, the son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself."
"And yet, even as I imagined myself following Malcolm's call, one line in the book stayed with me. He spoke of a wish he'd once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged."
"That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn't know they were being cruel in the first place. Or at least thought you were deserving of their scorn. White folks."
"Ray assured me that we would never talk about whites as whites in front of whites without knowing exactly what we were doing."
"Our rage at the white world needed no object, he seemed to be telling me, no independent confirmation; it could be switched on or off at our pleasure."
"Black politicians less gifted than Harold discovered what white politicians had known for a very long time: that race-baiting could make up for a whole host of limitations."
"A steady attack on the white race, the constant recitation of black people's brutal experience in the country...Yes the nationalist would say, the whites are responsible for your sorry state, not any inherent flaws in you."
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sadie44883
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Re: Damn, Richard!
You need a hobby. 
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5/9/2008, 8:14 am
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Re: Damn, Richard!
What a jerk. Some things never change.
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5/9/2008, 8:36 am
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I wonder if Richard can pull seemingly idiotic quotes from McCain - I can, they're all over the internet. But hell no - Richard won't do THAT, right?
Matt - agreed, Richard is a ****. I wonder if anyone has ever judged HIM by things HE'S said over the years?
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5/9/2008, 8:38 am
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Aren't most of these quotes from when he was younger, like high school/college? I supposed everybody here is EXACTLY the same person they were back then. Hell, I know a really nice guy that is a former skin head. I suppose everything he does should have the stench of who he was back then? He can't rise above, or change?
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5/9/2008, 9:55 am
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a lot of these quotes are pretty current, actually. he is known to have a pretty quick trigger, temper wise. i bet before the election is over we get to see it up close and personal. but, hey, a guy with some spirit and fire ain't all bad....if he can control it when it comes to being logical about how to deal with our allies and enemies...he can't take the affairs of state personally or he could be dangerous as hell.
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5/9/2008, 10:09 am
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Even the current pope thinks that the sins of youth should be set aside...
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well, if the Pope says so.....how well does he know mccain, anyway?
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5/9/2008, 10:33 am
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Dude, I was making a pope-was-a-nazi-joke without spelling it out and you had to go and spoil it...
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