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Everton2
skipthesong - My support for Senator Obama has nothing to do with race. I am simply convinced that he is the best person for the job. In addition, I don't know what America you are referring to, but the one I know at the moment can not be defined in any other context other than race. Maybe the future may hold a new perspective for all of us, but until that day arrives I am convinced that the issue of race would have no less prominence if Colin Powell had been the candidate.
The idea that Colin Powell would be better is now the "in thing" to say among Republicans and some Democrats. Here is a black man we would vote for so we are not racist knowing very well that this assertion will remain purely the stuff of intentions never to be fully tested.
You can pretend all you like about the race issue and bolster it with wishful, speculative and patently naive claims about Colin Powell, and how i am blaming some white guy for inner city poverty. But skiptheson - You can buy into that crap all you like but minorities are more sophisticated than you give them credit for, and if there was a choice between Jessy or any other current black leader the choice would still easily be Obama.
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Everton2
There is a sense in these postings that somehow the Senator from Illinois is not qualified to be President because of his race and name. This is totally consistent with the same kind of Jurassic reasoning that has brought America's international image into disrepute. The notion that only white people has the experience and knowledge to run the world. The idea that it is some kind of birth right that they alone possess. That American democracy will only be credibility if they elect a white person.
They continue to push this impotent position in the face of the many who have long traded on just being white, having been given unfettered access to the best of everything and still turned out to be spectacular failures.
That the poor, black and socially marginalized in America are only fit be used as canon fader in its many declared and undeclared wars. It really piss them off to know that minorities in America has suffered brutality of slavery, the disease that is segregation, and the indirect disenfranchisement that comes with inner city poverty now have a chance to see the ascendancy of one of their own. It is Obama's "manifest destiny" to be President and there is not a dam thing anyone here can do about it.
Posted in: Obama nears win amid signs Clinton may admit loss
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Everton2
I know it is a difficult proposition, a hard cake to eat, a slanted reality in your world, a philosophy that your father continually preached to you all his life now poised to be duly exposed for its uselessness. Listen up! Obama will be President and he will change the world for the better.
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Everton2
These men are just simply cowards by the way they subjugate their women, its a dam same!
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Everton2
Indeed we have all suffered under the Bush Administration, where we have endured the rise of Islamic terrorism, America's inept approach to the problem resulting in a new disdain for its geopolitical positioning. The notion that "if you are not with us you are against us" will go down as one of the most moronic and arrogant statements ever to come from a President.
I am sure American foreign policy can be extrapolated to the kind of arrogance and self centered behavior that comes from its individual citizens across the globe. You can spot them anywhere, always the loudest in the restaurant, verbally dishing out how the world should be according to them.
This is the kind of image that Obama will fundamentally transform. He will herald in a new brand of tolerance, a willingness to listen to the other guys position without threats and intimidation. He will dispense with the ridiculous idea that if you don't think like us we will simply refuse to talk with you.
Posted in: Florida, Michigan delegates will get half-votes
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Everton2
Just keep white people away! We know what happens when they come in contact with others on this planet. Ask the Aborigines of Australia, The Inuit people of Canada, The Arawak Indians of both the Caribbean and the Americas, and the list goes on!
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Everton2
McCain and Bush, from the Jurassic, destined for extinction
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Everton2
Synth- Most of the AID that went to the destroyed countries after the WW2 came in the form of grants that had no strings attached. The IMF was not in operation then to impose the harsh austerity measures that we have witness with the African economies. In fact, the aid that was made available to England, Germany and even Japan was so massive it would have been virtually impossible to repay.
The enormous borrowing by these former war affected economies occurred in the sixties, when they were already well set on a path of reconstruction, already made possible by the massive aid that they had already received with no strings attached.
Africa for the most part have been treated differently in every sense. By the time independence started to break out in Africa most of these European economies were already on their way to development. Moreover, at a time when Africa should have been benefiting from it resources Europeans simply sent all the profits back home, neglected local infrastructure investment, and in their exit installed leaders that they felt would be beholding to their continued interest. European exploitation of Africa did not end with their exit, in fact it intensified.
This in every way forestalled Africa's development and has essentially given us some of the problems that we see there today.
Posted in: U2's Bono urges Japan to take lead on African development
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Everton2
Akuma1985- Your observation about African leaders and their lack of conern for the welfare of their own people is spot on. However, you clearly lack knowledge in respect to aid and help. Germany, Japan and many other European countries received massive aid from the US after the war. They also received special treatment in terms of trade and technology transfer. It became a priority for the US to see these war ravaged countries developed as it would help to boost its own economic growth even further.
In addition, the effects of colonialism on Africa's underdevelopment is well documented and any argument to the contrary could not be sustained.
The unfair exploitation of Africa's resources, lack of technology transfer and a failure on the part of Africans to develop democratic principles are just some of the prevailing problems that continues to undermine Africa's illusive quest for self reliance.
Africa is simply requiring a different approach from the past, and the Chinese in some respect are providing the opportunity to make this a reality. Trade and the exploitation of African resources is now being linked to local infrastructure development. It is essentially a new model that is going to require some patience and more understanding on the part of concerned people like you and others.
Posted in: U2's Bono urges Japan to take lead on African development
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Everton2
Why talk to the enemy? I thought part of the Republican platform was not to talk to the enemy.
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Everton2
I am in love with the one on the far right, my next ex wife.
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Everton2
What are you people complaining about? Many of you arrived in Japan with jobs already waiting for you. Your beds are perhaps being warmed by Japanese women every night, and you enjoy the novelty status in Japan that sometimes comes with being Gaijin.
You people simply want to have it both ways, and in the process perhaps out of share boredom pick a fight about something that is not even a real issue. Listen up! They can call you Gaijin if they choose and if you want to interpret that as racist then you should all be deported in kimonos for being pedantic sissies.
I sense from some of these postings that not many of you would have a clue about what racism is. Try being an Aborigine in Australia, where the word has been shortened to "abbo" to degrade the status of being indigenous, and force to live on the fringes of white society in poverty and disease. Please give me a break!
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Everton2
I am never ever checking in my bags to Japan again!!
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Everton2
skipthesong - American foreign policy should not be held to ransom by a few disaffected Cubans from the Diaspora. Moreover, how different is China and why the double standard in respect to trade and the right to travel etc? China has a terrible record on human rights and routinely imprison people for their political views, why is it difference? A policy of engagement with Cuba would be far more productive. If people are allowed to travel and talk with their relatives in Cuba about the kind of life they have in America, then there would be a better chance of a local broad based call for change. The old approach of not talking with your neighbors is an anachronism in both its application and practical outcome. Its a bit like not talking to your neighbors and yet still hope to have wholesale influence on their attitude and perspective.
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Everton2
Why on earth would she want to marry a white guy any way unless she is in love with him. Remember she is expose to all, she is not some mindless Japanese girl fooled by all the white hype. She has obviously been there and have concluded it is well under par.
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Everton2
It is the US policy towards Cuba that gets me. It is childish and vindictive in every sense, has been applied for the last 50 years without success and yet MaCain wants to continue on the same part.
Posted in: Obama criticizes McCain on veterans benefits
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Everton2
skipthesong - I don't have to give a running lecture on white America's political and social phobias. They already know what they are, and I hope with the weight of conscience and natural tendency more of those deep seeded hypocritical positions will surface as we have witness recently. Moreover, since you have declared exhaustive knowledge about what is wrong with white America I urge you to share it with us.
Moderator: Stay on topic please.
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Everton2
Behind that manufactured frontage of most whites in America sit that uncertainty about race. They posit that it is not relevant but those of us who are keen observers of American politics and society know better, and as such are cognisant of the inherent deception in that position. They are never mindful of race until a daughter or son brings a minority person home to dinner. The recent comments by both Hillery and "hill billie" Huckabee underscores my point, that they are in words now actively urging an assassin's bullet to find a target in the Senator from Illinois. These are essentially the kind of people who have been making decisions in America for the last half a century, and they continue to ask why are we so misunderstood by the rest of the world.
Posted in: Clinton apologizes for Robert Kennedy assassination remarks
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Everton2
Don't you have to retire in America at 65 under Federal law? Why is McCain still looking for a job?
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Everton2
Alphaape- man don't believe everything you read. To say that Obama is now the main instigator of division within the Democratic Part is patently absurd. It looks to me that it is more like Hillery that fits that role. And i don't accept the notion that whites will not vote for Obama in sufficient numbers to win the election, that is just will full thinking on the part of closet bigots. Alphaape- if you don't vote for someone because of race it is racism and nothing else regardless of how you want to package it.
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