Obama to tear apart the country

[BanginJimmy]

Those of you who said "this country needs to get over the race issue" need to rethink that. Race is still an issue... predominantly African American schools in the inner city are far behind white schools, and out of the number of professional jobs in the US, African Americans are under represented, even with afirmative action. The hard data shows that we are not "equal" in any sense of the word.

this is technically true, but then again, white people from those same schools arent doing any better. Maybe ALL of them should worry more about learning to read and write than they worry about American Idol or whatever it is. Also when you look at blacks that graduate from college, they percentages are FAR closer.

Its not just racism toward African Americans, its racism toward other minorities as well. So many of you are quick to point out "Obama's Muslim roots", and point fingers to terrorism. What about the American terrorists? Timothy McVeigh, Eric Robert Rudolph, The Unibomber, Lee Harvey Oswald, etc etc. We are all in an outrage over terrorists sporting beards and turbans but quick to forget that we have been attacked by our own terrorists more often.

I have never heard of McVeigh being called anything but a terrorist. Same goes for the Unibomber. Oswald was not a terrorist though. He was just someone that assassinated a President. That doesnt make you a terrorist.
As far as Obama's "muslim roots" that simple BS and everyone with half a brain already knows it.

Its going to take more to fix the issues of race than to say "OK kids, everybody play nice" lol

This is true. We need to keep crackpot racists like Wright, Sharpton, Jackson, the ACLU, and the NAACP away from a tv camera. They do nothing more than make a race issue when there isnt one. Duke Lacross team? Jena 6?

[The12lber]

I have never heard of McVeigh being called anything but a terrorist. Same goes for the Unibomber. Oswald was not a terrorist though. He was just someone that assassinated a President. That doesnt make you a terrorist.

I think he was pointing out that Arabs/Muslims are stereotyped strongly as being terrorists where as terrorist style acts by white christians are actually more common here in the 'States.

While there's no hard and fast definition of what is terrorism and what isn't, I'm pretty sure shooting the **** out of a sitting president is something you could definitely categorize as terrorism.

Also, saw your sig - sales taxes are inherently regressive. Its interesting how people love lining up to get shafted by the super wealthy in this country (8 years of Bush and plenty of retards who love McCain).