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

To: John Vosilla who wrote (100577)	9/2/2011 4:32:50 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Today it is mocked and the internet age and tea party has made it harder for anyone else to trust white American's like me even though I also part an Obama hybrid story myself tied to recent immigrants. Even in the hispanic community I see EIGHT different groups that have emerged, Mexican, Cuban, PR, other central and south American also divided by those who want to assimilate and those who want a spanish first society they hide in.. As a white man, what was the big wake up call for me was how whites reacted after the riots in LA. I had always seen LA as a liberal city. As it turned out, It wasn't all that true. Masks dropped all over the place and white people began to voice to other whites what they had previously said in the privacy of their own homes. It was a disgusting time. Since leaving LA, I have learned its one of the most naturally segregated cities in the country. Racial issues are still very much alive in this country..........and I believe have become intensified with the Obama presidency.

To: John Vosilla who wrote (100577)	9/2/2011 10:10:43 PM
From: zeta1961	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

If anything the black and brown poor have much more in common with the poor redneck but all are divided, isolated and distrustful in the end.. Sorry to insert myself in your and Ted's thread but your post strongly resonated with me...I concur with in its entirety, based on my traveling and living in different regions of the US over the years.... But your above statement resonated deeply because I've seen it with my very own eyes.....most clearly in the Boston ER where I moonlighted during the 80s/90s....I remember wondering, "how come these folk don't realize they have so much in common?"...... I've heard that in the 20th C. politicians in NYC purposely created divisions with the hispanic and black communities...God knows they've done it down south since there was a south... Reading this thread between you and Ted reaffirms my belief that every child after graduating college or high school, if they reject college, go traveling across our country.....even if it means doing odd or what they'd consider menial jobs for those whose parents can't afford to finance it... Not just the beautiful state parks.....but live amongst the people, go to the coffee shops and diners...learn about how needs and dreams and desires are all the same for every one of us, no matter one's station in life.