There's nothing wrong with celebrating
one's own ethnic heritage ( or someone else's)
However, a community is not necessarily defined
by the ethnic heritage of its population. A community
is defined by what it will stands together for to act
as one for the common good. In the Polish revolution
for democracy it was called Solidarity. In the French
Revolution it was calle fraternity/brotherhood.
Even family, language and culture may not be enough
to hold a community together - things like
economics, human rights, and religion can
a community/region apart. Often it takes an outside
invader or a major disaster, to motivate a community
to solidarity, e.g. Ben Franklin commented to
his fellow representatives when signing the USA
Declaration of Independence that "We need
to hang together, or we shall surely hang separately."
A community can be defined simply as a
group of neighbors fighting to keep a
nearby park from being sold off to a developer
to make a shopping mall.
> Addressing suggestions that recent criticism of his health care reform
> efforts has been grounded in racism, President Obama this afternoon
> quipped,
> "I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the
> election."http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/21/politics/politicalhotsheet/en...
> This coming from a guy who grew up in a white culture
.
I believe that Obama was referring to how the mass mainstream
media often like to identify Obama is the first black president
(via the one drop rule) rather than say he's mulatto or bi-racial
or mixed. Obama is 1/2 white european and 1/2 african/kenyan
with respect to heritage. Persons of multi-racial heritage of
which includes some african heritage often have to deal with
being labeled as black, e.g. Tiger Woods the pro golfer.
Persons with multi-racial heritage which does not include african
heritiage (e.g. mixture of native american and european
or asian and european) often identifies as white and not with
with their respective minority ethnic hertiage ( e.g. actor
Keanu Reeves is identified as a white actor but he
is actually 1/2 english 1/4 chinese 1/4 hawaiian).
ISTM the USA will not probably have a public healthcare
option until the USA has a major public health disaster/epidemic
where a significant portion of the population dies from lack
of adequate healthcare. Until then it is going to be
every person for him or her self.
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I think Obama believes we're there now.
After generations of black/white children having children out of wedlock and
on welfare, bred in my opinion to grow up without fathers to guide them into
manhood, the DimocRAT Party has set up a Eugenics program which cranks out
ignorant young people designed to join SEUI and ACORN which can then be
mobilized to swing elections, and it has.
Obama said he expects the 'single payer'/government (monopoly) run
healthcare too take 10 years to become reality.
It took generations to breed the perfect voter, what's 10 more years?
--
CB
Liberalism took the shame outz of habbing chillins out of wedlock and the
result be generational welfare.
Abortion/Eugenics/Planned Parenthood - The darling of the DemocRAT Party for
generations- Started under Hitler to breed the perfect Aryan zombie/race
soldier. Obama's looking to breed a community army loyal to him. His speech
televised to skoo chillins was supposed to do it until FoxNews blew the
whistle on Oboobuh's Brown Shirt recruitment attempt.
Libs have systematically created their base voter by removing individual
responsibility for ones own success or failure and shifted it onto society
and duh mayhn but yet use the mayhn as a scapegoat to keep a good man down.
A collective mind set puts trust in gubment rather than self to provide what
most people consider their own bidniz.
ACORN is to criminality as Obama is to Chicago politics.
Happy Kwanzaa. Happy Hanuka.