Comments on: Race, Class and Obama http://jazzgunsapplepie.com/2010/09/02/race-class-and-obama/ Sex and Race Through Politics and Pop Culture Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Bea http://jazzgunsapplepie.com/2010/09/02/race-class-and-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-739 Bea Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:22:46 +0000 http://jazzgunsapplepie.com/?p=925#comment-739 Rich, I agree. Why should there be an attempt to solve anything when the results may put you out of a job? However, if citizens who have a stake in the direction of this country don't vote this November; we will return to a political atmosphere consumed by maintaining the status-quo and forever closed to anyone who thinks or looks differently. Rich, I agree. Why should there be an attempt to solve anything when the results may put you out of a job? However, if citizens who have a stake in the direction of this country don’t vote this November; we will return to a political atmosphere consumed by maintaining the status-quo and forever closed to anyone who thinks or looks differently.

]]> By: Rich http://jazzgunsapplepie.com/2010/09/02/race-class-and-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-592 Rich Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:31:16 +0000 http://jazzgunsapplepie.com/?p=925#comment-592 I think the first line of the quote you use from Obama demonstrates the problem: "I chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together" If anything has been demonstrated in the past two years, it's that there is a contingent of this country that has no interest in solving "the challenges of our time." Looking at the "Ground Zero Mosque," the law passed in Arizona, and the character assassinations that have been carried out (Van Jones, Acorn, Shirley Sherrod) , some people see the challenges we face as political ammunition to vanquish the other side, rather than something to be overcome together. I think the first line of the quote you use from Obama demonstrates the problem:

“I chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together”

If anything has been demonstrated in the past two years, it’s that there is a contingent of this country that has no interest in solving “the challenges of our time.” Looking at the “Ground Zero Mosque,” the law passed in Arizona, and the character assassinations that have been carried out (Van Jones, Acorn, Shirley Sherrod) , some people see the challenges we face as political ammunition to vanquish the other side, rather than something to be overcome together.

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