Reply #174: We think alike. ;)

[Mimosa]

The very accusation of racism makes many people recoil. Not because they are guilty but because real progress was actually made by our parents and grandparents.

1StrongBlackman, we now live in an era in which being called racist is a very bad insult. That wasn't so in our grandparents early lives. ;) Do you ever watch old movies in which there's a phrase "That's very white of you"? I don't know exactly what that means but I sense it wasn't good for people of color!

I trusted Obama early on. I think I can trust him to correct course when it is called for. I do not believe he is or was a hypocrite. I do sense there are powers he has to deal with which might scare the bejesus out of you and me. Somebody a couple of days ago posted about that Ned beatty/Peter Finch 'come to Jesus' TRUTH moment in Paddy Chayefsky's "Network". I sense that is what the president must deal with. But he also needs to be true to US, no matter the risks. He signed on for the job. :)