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DeepModem Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 03:51 PM Original message |
Father's Day: Obama tells black fathers to engage their children |
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Carnea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
1. Well better than the fundies who get engaged to their children...nt |
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Athens30603 (312 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 04:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Like Woody Allen? ;) n/t |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
2. A fine message, one that lots of black folks have been saying for decades.... |
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BOHICA06 (886 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. It starts with a lifetime commitment to another .... a wife .... prior to |
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Frustratedlady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
4. I'm glad to see this. This cycle must be broken for all families... |
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Towlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
5. Bad idea! I don't like this! |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 04:12 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I agree. Say it to all the fathers, don't play into that right wing |
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tyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 04:23 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I disagree. |
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Towlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 04:42 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. But maybe it wasn't really like the Associated Press said. |
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DeepModem Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 04:51 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Thanks, Towlie, for posting this link. I posted the OP, and I'm really wondering... |
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gblady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 05:14 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. All fathers.... |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 05:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. yahoo is as bad as fox |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 04:26 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Yah - because GOLLY - if it weren't for this, they wouldn't say *anything*!!! |
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bunkerbuster1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 04:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. You had a head-scratching moment about Obama. Some advice... |
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auburnblu (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 05:17 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. No Bill Cosby has not got away with it |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 05:59 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Cosby's been fried for saying that. nt |
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roseBudd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 07:48 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. The Cosby thing is more of a "he's talking out of school" |
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Carnea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 11:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. Many of Black leaders are speaking out against this |
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bigbrother05 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
14. I wrote to the AP for their Title |
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hollowdweller (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 05:26 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Subtle Racisim |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 06:13 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Context in resolving the referent for "our" suffices. (that is all) |
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DeepModem Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 10:37 PM Response to Reply #14 |
25. Thank you, bigbrother! Please let us know if you hear from them. |
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DuaneBidoux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
17. I have no problem here. Period. |
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sallyseven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
20. I think that Obams can do a lot of good |
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Zuiderelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
22. So misleading, to claim that he said this to black fathers, when he clearly said it OF all fathers. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
23. Years ago, Daniel Patrick Monihan got labeled a racist for suggesting that |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-15-08 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
26. Barack Obama has been saying this for some time......and telling this message |
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