Record black turnout for Obama also helped push a morally conservative agenda in state referenda.
Distracted by the historic victory of Barack Obama which may usher in a new era of American politics, election watchers have mostly missed the devastating defeats which went hand in hand with that triumph. As Obama is ushered into office on a groundswell of support for change, there is a grim reminder that not all change is for the better.…
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76 - Ruvy
You are so damned bitter....
NO, not bitter. I don't have to deal with the racial divides of your nation, now. To me they are meaningless.
But I have never forgotten what happened in the late 1960's and through the 1970's. I have never forgotten the betrayal, and never will.
I still haven't forgiven the Dodgers for leaving Brooklyn in 1958. Why should I forgive the attitudes that blacks took towards Jews in the 1970's in New York? Because the old Jews that they victimized and whom I defended in the Bronx are now dead? That's a good reason, isn't it?
Golda Meir's cousin, a woman I knew, who was raped once and mugged twice? She's dead now. I should be forgiving? Have those who raped this woman or mugged her ever sought forgiveness?
To my knowledge, I do not know. When I learn they have, I can afford to be forgiving. Till then, they do not deserve it from me.
77 - Dave Nalle
Ruvy, the people who raped her are likely also dead. You cannot hold an entire race accountable for the actions of individual members of it, whether they are American blacks or Palestinians.
Dave
78 - Ms. Know
I'm glad that people have moral values still, despite the liberal illuminati thinking that has gone over all of America.
79 - bliffle
Well, Ms. Don't Know, accusing someone of belonging to an illuminati is not exactly a condemnation. Some people might take it as admirable.