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

To: zeta1961 who wrote (100683)	9/3/2011 4:07:20 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

In DC, where there's a substantial highly educated and financially successful black population, many they keep to themselves....Don't mingle with any white or poor black folk... For me this is a fascinating phenomenon to discuss and I thank you and John for initiating it..... When I lived in LA, I lived mostly in the barrios and ghettos. I got broken into once plus I had a bike stolen from my front yard when I left it out overnite. Those are the only times I felt any danger or violation. What did finally get to me.......is the lower quality of services provided by the city....the lack of shopping choices........and the poor quality of shops and products that they provided. I also noted how differently the cops act in poor areas vs more affluent areas of the city. Of course, this was LA where prejudices ran high esp after the 1992 riots. What I also noticed was that white people in the barrios/ghettos tended to hang together.....esp the ones raising families. And that was true of me too. I never felt any fear from Latinos/blacks but then I made very few friends among them. I think that was more a class thing. In addition, some of my friends would not come over to see me because of where I lived.....same with dates. Having lived where I lived, I think has given me a different perspective on things. I know I have a lot more friends of mixed race than my other friends who are white......but frankly, I don't work at it actively.......I become friends with whom I like and not for any other motivation. I don't think I feel the kind of fear that some whites seem to have for people of color. What I am saying is that I don't know if, in fact, whites have a fear of blacks and Latinos. I know I don't but I don't know if its true of others. I think I may bring it up when I get together next time with some of my male friends. One guy is of mixed race and another is going out with an Asian woman........so we will see what they say. The whole tenor of things right now is confusing to me. I voted for Obama because he was the best person for the job..........I thought he would be less divisive than Clinton. Clearly, I was wrong on that.......maybe she would have been less divisive. But I did think that Obama was better qualified to be president.......even as I thought Clinton was a good candidate. I don't have the expectations of Obama that others seem to have. I think being the POTUS at the present time is a very, very difficult job. We are as divided as we were pre civil war........and trying to keep things together has got to be an overwhelming task.........if not an impossible one. And I now realize its more difficult for Obama simply because he is half black. I almost wish he wouldn't run for a second term..........that its not worth the cost to his health. I really don't know if we will get through this one.