Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Little Joe who wrote (36260)	10/3/2008 12:10:16 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 149317

Little Joe, I grew up on the South Side of Chicago and watched my neighbors (mostly blue collar Democrats) throw bricks at Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966. Dr. King was on record as stating that he found Chicago more segregated than the South. His Open Housing marches were ultimately a failure in Chicago. On the other hand, I still have contact with some of my old neighbors and for the most part their racial hatreds have dissipated. That is not to say that racism has disappeared from the scene. It still exists in both the white and black communities, but to a far lesser extent than it did 20 or 30 years ago. koan seriously underestimates the progress that the U.S. has made in this area. In my opinion, if Obama loses this election, an event that looks to be increasingly unlikely, it is not going to be because of his skin color. Regards, Glenn

To: Little Joe who wrote (36260)	10/3/2008 12:23:27 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

Ths is nonsense. I lived in California. We were not segregated by law. That you refuse to admit what was going on in the south says it all. What in the hell do you think Martin Luther King was doing and where do you think he was doing it? Ask any Aftican American if there was a difference between how they felt in the north and in the south. Half my high school was black. We played football together and anyone could go anywhere. We had no segregated schools, restaruants, bathrooms or drinkng fountains. None. Not one!! And your defense of gay bashing by engaging something about not understanding the courts is pure nonsense. The courts across the country vote 5/4 constantly. slavery and segregaton used to be legal. Where was the constitution? That proves the constitution and the law are existential in nature, so neither you or I can say for sure what is rght or wrong exceept based on our own morality! And formal segregation, by law, and not allowing gays to marry, by law, is primitive barabaric thinking.