Just as we are able to reason together my hope is that our country can achieve the same thing. Unfortunately ignorance and racism resides on both sides of the issue as we can tell by some of the other responses on the blog. I think your ideas are good and are at least a starting point in addressing the many issues that face us. Post slavery, post Civil-War, post Civil Rights movement, WE still live in a country where racism is still very much alive and the Josh Howard disposition only stirs up the mess and the funk of our problem reminds us that the issues still remain hundreds of years later. It is sad but it is reality. I just believe that two people at a time like us can make a difference starting with ourselves and imparting that same philosophy in our homes. WE are all human beings created in God’s image and that is enough for me.

It looks like you & I are closer in our opinions than I had originally thought. We both agree that black people have been wronged by white people — beyond slavery, that is (as if that weren’t enough). I don’t know any white people with the brains God gave a turnip who would argue that. If you look at the last 50 years, there have been huge steps in racial equality. Long overdue steps & steps that never should have needed to have been taken, but steps nonetheless. I guess one way we’ll know we’re all equal in America is when artificial assistance (EOE, scholarships based on race, etc.) are no longer necessary. What do you think?

mathematically you may be correct in saying that obama is just as white as he is black but historically that hasnt been the case

throughout US history, theres always been mixed-race kids, but for the longest time if you had one little drip drop of black blood in your heritage, you was Black. your great great grandmother could be the only black person in you family tree and you still black.

but yeah, obama’s mama is as white as i am, and i am real white.

as far as j-ho, if he hadda just kept it short and said i dont really celebrate that shit cause i’m black, i could almost get down with it like he was trying to be funny on some chappelle type unPC vibe, but then he went there with the “all that ‘Obama’ and all that shit”. Ignant ass motherfucker.

This guy doesn’t speak for all black people. Only the ignorant wouldn’t understand that the anthem, like the flag, is meant to represent all that is truly great about this country.

But a brief memo to all you OF ANY RACE that hate America but enjoy all the freedoms and benefits it provides: We don’t want you here, get the f**k out!!!