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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:04 PM Original message |
“Obama Not First U.S. President of African Ancestry” by Alton H. Maddox Jr., founder of the Center |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. ... |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
2. Missed you Jody! |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:13 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I thought Maddox's statement "It is amazing that Lincoln and Obama have sought to cement the |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. No, that statement is preposterous. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Are you saying the cite in #3 is preposterous? Is that not just your opinion vs. Maddox? n/t |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:23 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Yes, I am. That is a preposterous, unfounded, indefensible statement. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:28 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. ROFLMAO! n/t |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
4. Now I know why he was disbarred |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. "A 2006 resolution passed by the Council of the City of New York supported Maddox's reinstatement, |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:22 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. so political council members make a political statement and people in the legal |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:30 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Maddox is certainly controversial but then I know many lawyers who fit that mold. n/t |
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JoFerret (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 09:44 PM Response to Reply #19 |
35. "Controversial"? |
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Egnever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
7. wow |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:20 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I'm intrigued, which of the many assertions Maddox makes do you find most offensive? n/t |
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sampsonblk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
10. He has some good points in there |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:27 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. Agree last paragraph is pure opinion but both Lincoln and Obama face a divided nation, bankrupt both |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
11. 100% of presidents have come out of Africa.... |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
12. Idiotic. Just one of his many inaccuracies: President-elect Obama is not the first man |
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John Q. Citizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
13. The human race traces it's orgins to Africa. So of course all presidents can also. |
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RevolutionToday (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
15. Stupid, pointless nonanalysis |
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suston96 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
20. Where we all came from.......? Out of Africa........ |
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JoFerret (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
21. Ah! the very lovely Alton Maddox |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
22. My gym friends which I talk to five days a week and several cousins including one lawyer and a |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
23. Okay I think I missed something: Lincoln, Harding, Cooledge, and |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 02:11 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I don't know but if one goes back ten generations, the possible genetic inputs at that level alone |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
25. Black votes lauched Obama into the White House? |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 03:39 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Agree but IMO Maddox was recognizing that 55% of Whites voted for McCain. |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 03:43 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Yeah I understand the sentiment. But that's like saying that blacks launched Prop 8 into law. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 04:11 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. At least Todd Calvin does in his LTTE in todays LA Times. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 03:48 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. So the fuck what? More white people voted for Obama than voted for |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 04:06 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. "dems always lose the white vote"! Not in all states. Isn't that implied in Maddox's opinion? n/t |
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FLAprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
31. But Obama was the first president elected as an African American.... |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 04:14 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Absolutely, a point that Maddox fails to emphasize. n/t |
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dascientist (385 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
34. who are the other 6? |
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