But I am glad for Obama

”Anyone seen ‘The Imitation of Life’?”
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This is one of the saddest films I ever saw! My Mum even bought the video a few years ago because she loved it so much.

Every kid should be watching this at school - once a year from when they start prep.!

Once again I hope you know that ‘you’ does not mean you. It’s late, I’m tired..though that’s the only thing I retract.

Wish I knew about those smilies…

But if he had said he was white, then… what would have been the outcome?

I was struck by Petermac’s post the other might; that if you were half Jewish, then you’d be into the camps. Presumably by that argument, the non white bit is that to hide or be ashamed of. I think not. Why shouldn’t the non white part take precedence?

That Obama should call himself black, why should you take any more offence than if he should call himself white? Except, of course, he looks black

Anyone seen ‘The Imitation of Life’?

or were you for McCain (worthy candidate too)

The columnist Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times wrote this on 5th November:

‘ In 1958, a little white girl in North Carolina innocently kissed a 9-year-old black friend named Hanover on the cheek. The police arrested the boy, along with his 7-year-old companion, and a court sentenced him to 12 years imprisonment for attempted rape. (After publicity, the boy was eventually released.)’

People seem to see what they want to see.

And I must go; goodnight…

We are on our own there. I’m still being offered store cards.

There is some hope, I believe. A hard act- oh yes

Can one man make a difference?

I don’t know, but I find it difficult to stomach people blogging that the man isn’t black, with agendas that I care not to know.

One of the drawbacks of being inspirational is that people will expect more from him than the bog standard politician; one of the advantages of rarely showing emotion is that people are drawn in a crisis to someone who does not run around like a chicken with its head chopped off.

And the economy there and for much of the world is comprehensively f*cked; I remain bemused by the number of economists bursting with advice on how to tackle the disaster that none of them saw coming, notwithstanding the fact that it was blindingly obvious.

I propose to apply this simple test to people giving economic advice in future; if they didn’t notice us getting into the shit in the first place, they are unlikely to provide much help in getting us out of the shit now and in the future…

Inspirational : surely good? Whether that translates into competence, we shall all await the/our judgement.

If you go for the Creationist view, the location of garden of Eden, although much speculated, is not known, but there is no reason to assume that Adam and Eve, (if they existed) were white.

If you go for Darwinism, then the likelihood is that you and me - is black.

There again, you could just say you are from ‘England’s green and pleasant lands’

I really was just joking (in case it came across badly in type….)

It is embarrassing the way they’re banging on about race - but they’ve got hours and hours of coverage to fill (since we’re all buzzing about it) - and nothing real to fill it with.

You may as well put the KKK and Martin Luther King in the same sentence - if inaccurate memories are what we rely on King could be the Grand High Wizard and the KKK a branch of the FBI in another 20 years time…

(Unless perhaps you want some more votes from people who cannot see beyond the colour of a persons skin …)