There were black troops fighting for America(and the Jews) during WWII, M.

There really were.

There are even some fighting in Iraq now.

Time to mensch up and can the racist crap.

You're embarrassing us all.

alphie,

What is it about Eternally Grateful you do not understand?

Alphie do you try to be stupid or does it just come naturally?

And let me ask further are you a supporter of Black Liberation Theology? Is that something you can get behind?

You might also wish to read the comments here.

M. Simon -

The acheivements of the Red Ball Expressare legendary in the history of logistics - and most of the drivers were African-American. But I suspect you already knew that. All they were looking for was a chance to prove what they could do, like the Tuskeegee Airmen. They weren't demanding to be pushed to the head of the line - they simply wanted a chance.

This 'liberation theology' crap seems to insist they get to the front of the line, and be entitled to block all other access.

I fully agree - if you're looking for someone to 'keep the blacks in their place', you won't find anyone better at it than the race-baiting poverty pimps like Wright, who makes sure the people he preaches at are so fixated on being victims that they refuse to lift themselves up. It's SO much easier to wallow in an entitlement mentality and blame everyone else for your lack of success, and then be pissed when someone tries to actually get you out of it!

JLawson,

Thanks for that. d'accord.

And yes I am quite familiar with the Red Ball Express. Thanks for the link.

And the Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Group. I believe they had the best record of guarding the bombers of any WW2 fighter group.

In the beginning there was a lot of resistance from the initial bomber groups due to racial stereotypes. After the bomber groups had experience with the 332 they were asked for when there was a choice.

Here is the Wiki Tuskegee Airmen. Outstanding performance has always been the key to inclusion in America.

Here is the www site for Tuskegee Airmen.

The term "honest discussion of race" is rhetorical code language thrown around by people who do not want honest discussions of race because of political realities. If you consider that Obama launched his political career by passing as "culturally black" (when he was really "culturally white"), then it behooves him to obfuscate in this manner, because he is playing a game.

A necessary game for him, as he is being what he is: a politician and a chameleon. Honest discussions and political games for chameleons are two very different -- and probably incompatible -- issues.

Bearing in mind that his stance is inherently contrived and political, I still think he comes across as a nice guy. I wish more politicians had his good manners.

However, his pleasant demeanor does not incline me to vote for him, because he's hopelessly wedded to socialism, gun control, and the rest of it.

Amen.

Alphie, try to stay with the argument as written, not interesting facts tangentially related to the topic.

To hold white Americans eternally hostage to the memory of slavery when vanishingly few of us have ever met anyone who was even alive during that era, much less had any control over it, makes the Great Greenwald Instalink Dustup into a smoking gun by comparison.

We already apologized. We had a whole war over it. Deal, already.

M. Simon assumes he and his mom = "en mass," AVI.

Do you really want to stay on that topic?

A textbook case of confirmation bias.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over £all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Why is there no mention of man's skin color here?

The topic was Americans in general and Republicans in specific being accused of racism. But I now begin to understand, alphie. You just like word games, not any discussion with a hope of arriving at a truth. Now I know not to bother.

AVI,

alphie is our resident troll. We like feeding him from time to time so he keeps coming around. It is the amusement value. Not to be taken seriously.

BTW alphie. Jews normally vote 75% Democrat. If you look up on line the breakdown is now about 50/50 with movement continuing.

In '04 if a liberal Jew was going to defect s/he had to keep silent to maintain relations. That is not true this year. This year it just gets a nod at worst, sometimes even encouragement. It is a sea change.

Let me add that alphie claims to be Republican oriented but I see very little evidence of that. I'd put him in the class of left of center Democrat with a moderate understanding of economics. An anti-war Joe Lieberman.

BTW alphie wait till you see my next post. I'm hoping to make you really scream. I look forward to your "comments".