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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-18-08 03:46 PM
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18. It was brilliant for Obama to link Wright to this kind of experience
Almost every white American of voting age has a similar experience. Nobody walks out of Thanksgiving dinner. You might fight and disagree and clench your fists and slam the silverware, but nobody hates their Dad because he says racist things. And, as you get older, you grind your teeth through it and hope he doesn't go off in company, etc. But you still love your father, and maybe you even understand.

And you work for something better.

Why didn't he leave the Church? Why don't YOU walk out on Thanksgiving dinner?
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  -Because he was a part of me cali  Mar-18-08 03:28 PM   #0 
  - It spoke of love and integrity. Thanks for sharing. nt  babylonsister   Mar-18-08 03:31 PM   #1 
  - Good post, Cali. Thanks!  Oregonian   Mar-18-08 03:31 PM   #2 
  - Its unconditional love - something Obama knows intimately. Thanks, Cali.  K Gardner   Mar-18-08 03:32 PM   #3 
  - my father was ALWAYS a racist Cali  SoFlaJet   Mar-18-08 03:35 PM   #4 
  - "They grew up in different times that's all" is practically a paraphrase  hedgehog   Mar-18-08 04:18 PM   #42 
     - and something I've been saying since  SoFlaJet   Mar-18-08 04:44 PM   #50 
  - the thing is, most who are racist  Blue_Roses   Mar-18-08 03:37 PM   #5 
  - Cali  sorrybushisfromtexas   Mar-18-08 03:45 PM   #16 
  - Precisely the point Obama was making and most fair-minded people get that.  InAbLuEsTaTe   Mar-18-08 03:37 PM   #6 
  - You know, cali, the same thing happened with both my parents in their eightys.  enough   Mar-18-08 03:37 PM   #7 
  - My mother is 87 and supporting Obama  cali   Mar-18-08 03:42 PM   #13 
     - First off....thanks for the great post! K&R  snappyturtle   Mar-18-08 04:15 PM   #39 
  - My Dad was an Ayn-Rand-loving Objectivist and an alcoholic  rox63   Mar-18-08 03:38 PM   #8 
  - K&R for you and your dad, cali.  No Surrender   Mar-18-08 03:39 PM   # 
  - Thanks for your post :) N/T  DerekJ   Mar-18-08 03:39 PM   #9 
  - Thanks, Cali!  ClayZ   Mar-18-08 03:39 PM   #10 
  - "We don't stop loving people because they're flawed."  VolcanoJen   Mar-18-08 03:40 PM   #11 
  - Then why are you consistently one of the nastiest people on DU??  undeterred   Mar-18-08 03:41 PM   #12 
  - ...  indimuse   Mar-18-08 04:05 PM   #33 
  - I hope the irony of your nasty, out-of-place post isn't lost on you. n/t  krkaufman   Mar-19-08 05:22 PM   #57 
  - It was a marvelous speech, but what I loved most about it  chieftain   Mar-18-08 03:42 PM   #14 
  - K&R Cali, Thanks!  Adams Wulff   Mar-18-08 03:43 PM   #15 
  - Thank you for your post but I am most certain that it was related to the  grantcart   Mar-18-08 03:46 PM   #17 
  - Perhaps. But why that manifestation?  cali   Mar-18-08 03:50 PM   #23 
     - I think it's the Pool of our Collective Unconsiousness. That Reptilian brain stem we share with all  cryingshame   Mar-18-08 03:57 PM   #26 
     - No that is the point that is why you can rest assured that it was dementia  grantcart   Mar-18-08 04:04 PM   #32 
        - I think you both have a point  foo_bar   Mar-19-08 07:36 PM   #62 
  - It was brilliant for Obama to link Wright to this kind of experience  alcibiades_mystery   Mar-18-08 03:46 PM   #18 
  - My grandmother grew up living in a shack with a dirt floor. Her father was a sharecropper.  SemiCharmedQuark   Mar-18-08 03:46 PM   #19 
  - Re: your side note... Isn't that the "genius" of racism and pitting sub-groups against each other?  krkaufman   Mar-19-08 05:24 PM   #58 
  - Eloquently put, cali.  11 Bravo   Mar-18-08 03:46 PM   #20 
  - Excellent, moving OP. K & R.  apocalypsehow   Mar-18-08 03:48 PM   #21 
  - "These people are all a part of me...."  Skidmore   Mar-18-08 03:49 PM   #22 
  - Beautiful post. Thank you for your honesty.  Catherina   Mar-18-08 03:52 PM   #24 
  - That's a pretty low bar you set for Obama.  Auntie Bush   Mar-18-08 03:54 PM   #25 
  - huh? The post is about MY father not Obama's  cali   Mar-18-08 03:57 PM   #27 
  - Then this thread should be moved...  Juniperx   Mar-18-08 03:59 PM   #28 
  - Yes, it's about a candidate. It's about Obama  cali   Mar-18-08 04:03 PM   #31 
     - You should have explained that to the poster  Juniperx   Mar-18-08 04:05 PM   #34 
        - Whatever. The OP was pretty self-explanatory  cali   Mar-18-08 04:07 PM   #35 
        - We can all be more kind.  Teaser   Mar-18-08 04:07 PM   #36 
        - You're just looking for an excuse to be rude and divisive.  Elrond Hubbard   Mar-18-08 04:10 PM   #37 
  - Sorry, it wouldn't have been politically expedient.  Auntie Bush   Mar-18-08 06:38 PM   #51 
  - ... Or his minister...  Juniperx   Mar-18-08 04:01 PM   #30 
     - ot: Your sig pic is hilarious  Lilith Velkor   Mar-19-08 06:03 PM   #61 
  - K&R  dmsRoar   Mar-18-08 04:00 PM   #29 
  - My father is a straight up bigot cali. He did have an influence on me at a young age, but I battled...  IsItJustMe   Mar-18-08 04:10 PM   #38 
  - The same thing happened to my father.  janeaustin   Mar-18-08 04:17 PM   #40 
  - The argument is this, you dont choose your father, you choose a church/minister because of worldview  Texas Hill Country   Mar-18-08 04:18 PM   #41 
  - No. It's about loving people despite their flaws  cali   Mar-18-08 04:20 PM   #43 
  - The first thing that I did when Obama's speech was over was call my father.  JTFrog   Mar-18-08 04:21 PM   #44 
  - Thanks for that.  cali   Mar-18-08 04:22 PM   #45 
  - Cali - I'd have to say that the first sign of your father's dementia  hedgehog   Mar-18-08 04:25 PM   #46 
  - Well, maybe  cali   Mar-18-08 04:28 PM   #48 
     - Dementia is very complicated, but most families can look back and  hedgehog   Mar-18-08 04:36 PM   #49 
  - Your father  goodgd_yall   Mar-18-08 04:26 PM   #47 
  - God bless you Cali  mdmc   Mar-18-08 06:39 PM   #52 
  - I am sure  MassDemm   Mar-18-08 06:45 PM   #53 
  - We can all relate, and this issue is actually showing the power to unite us. n/t  Tatiana   Mar-19-08 12:24 AM   #54 
  - Your post makes me wonder if there wasn't a biological cause for your father's change  krkaufman   Mar-19-08 05:13 PM   #55 
  - Cali, this is yet another of your most precious posts  Mike03   Mar-19-08 05:20 PM   #56 
  - your Dad sounds like a great man  npincus   Mar-19-08 05:27 PM   #59 
  - Just kicking a lovely post that had moved off of page one.  Mike03   Mar-19-08 05:49 PM   #60 
 

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