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Name:	Swimmer27 -	Reply
Subject:	Powerful words......
Date:	1/19/2009 8:58:33 AM

There is one group of voters and celebrants out there who's joy I can understand and appreciate; and I'm talking about black voters.

First ... let me make a point about "black" vs. "African American." I'm not one of those out there who slavishly fell in line when Jesse "The Sloganmaster" Jackson decided that from henceforth all blacks shall be referred to as "African-American." Political correctness run amok. Most blacks in this country have about as much in common with African natives as I have with Finnish yak herders. I just flat-out don't like hyphenated-Americanism. I'm not European-American, I'm an American ... and so is our next president. I'll just be damned if I'm going to call the President of the United States an "African-American" President.

Now .. having said that, let's address the overwhelming joy we see in black America over the events of this week. How could blacks NOT be joyous? Someone a few months back told me that Barack Obama was black America's greatest achievement. I disagreed. I said that black America's greatest achievement was our black men coming back from World War II to a country where they had separate waiting rooms and drinking fountains; where they had to sit in theatre balconies if they could get into the theatre at all; where they could surely spend their money at Woolworth's, but don't try to sit at the lunch counter; where a black soldier couldn't even find a decent motel in which to put his family to bed as he traveled across our country to a new duty station ----- to come home from World War II to experience this oppressive segregation and bias ---- and instead of burning this place to the ground going right back out there and fighting for America in the Korean War. There's black America's greatest achievement; its forbearance.
Neal Boortz
1-19-09

He sure said a mouthful with these words. but few will here them as the world prepares for the obamagasm. If BO had any class he would repeat these lines from the podium tomorrow!!!!! I'll hold my breath.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Powerful words......
Date:	1/19/2009 9:38:09 AM

I agree with you about the hyphenated terms. I have usually asked people if they prefered "black" or "African-American" and 9 time out of ten, they told me "black". Now my college advisor was an "African American" being from Nigeria and holding a dual citizenship.

It will be interesting to hear Obama's inaugural speech. Oration is such a powerful tool.

Name:	NCSue -	Reply
Subject:	Powerful words......
Date:	1/19/2009 10:28:29 AM

There also people who refer to themselves as Italian-American or Irish-American even though their families have been here for generations.

Name:	Swimmer27 -	Reply
Subject:	And your point is what?
Date:	1/19/2009 12:44:58 PM

I don't agree with them either. America has no room for hyphenated Americanisms.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	And your point is what?
Date:	1/19/2009 5:24:11 PM

The whole hyphenated thing is so overdone. Most of the people who consider themselves Irish-Americans or Italian-Americans now, had parents or grandparents who were happy just to be "Americans". I think you can still be an "American" (no hyphen) and still honor your heritage.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	And Bubba is
Date:	1/19/2009 8:23:13 PM

a Redneck-American!!!!

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	And Bubba is
Date:	1/20/2009 11:08:44 AM

I thought Bubba was our first African American President........

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