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Old 05-06-2008, 04:05 AM   #49 (permalink)
dalem
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Originally Posted by JAD_333 View Post
How the hell do I know if it was the first time.
'Cuz she said so?

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""What we have learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback. And let me tell you something -- for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country."
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I was speculating. She's a black person
Funny. I thought she was an American.

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, not exactly a bed of roses in our white dominated society with vestiges of discimination still around. I was a bit dismayed when she said what she said, but I am trying to understand her perspective. Improving race relations is a bumpy road. It doesn't help to throw your white perspective on it. Jeez, she feels pride in her country now. Maybe that's a big step for her. Look at it as progress, not as a friggin cancer.
That's not progress in my book, it's regress. This country has done more good for the planet than any other in the last few hundred years. How dare she not feel pride in that alone. How dare she.

-dale
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