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Post by Blaque on Oct 5, 2006 6:59:18 GMT -5
Who was your favorite American President and why?
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jazzlover
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Post by jazzlover on Oct 6, 2006 16:14:36 GMT -5
Johnson, he will never go down as agreat president because of Vietnam, but he handled the segragation problem with more urgency than Kennedy! And he was the President that made the biggest strides in Equality for us, even though he was a redneck he was a redneck with balls and heart!
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sudan
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Post by sudan on Oct 6, 2006 20:59:34 GMT -5
The dehumanizing denial that blacks have sovereignty over their lives became national policy in 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson said: "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line in a race and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others'." This, Steele writes, enunciated a new social morality: No black problem could be defined as largely a black responsibility. If you were black, you could not be expected to carry responsibilities equal to others'.
....Johnson was definitely a REDNECK, and I for 1....can't even go there. He reminds me of Abe Lincoln, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation just for Blacks to fight in the war. ....I don't have a favorite.....wait....Jimmy, Jimmy Carter!! ;D
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sweetpie
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Post by sweetpie on Oct 7, 2006 5:42:19 GMT -5
Yeah Jimmy was cool. I know Clinton had his issues but those aside from those I liked the fact that he communicated with black folx and he did more towards problems in THIS country. I can't say he got to everything but I felt more connected with the administration than I do now.
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