http://onefinemess.rhinopanda.net/2008/03/18/obamas-speech-this-morning-a-more-perfect-union/ The blog formerly known as Onefinemess. Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:02:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://onefinemess.rhinopanda.net/2008/03/18/obamas-speech-this-morning-a-more-perfect-union/#comment-435 Bethany Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:42:42 +0000 http://onefinemess.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/obamas-speech-this-morning-a-more-perfect-union/#comment-435 Query: is it possible not to take total responsibilities for the actions of your ancestors and yet to understand the victims' hurt enough to hug them when they're rightly bitter instead of demonizing them? You wouldn't even have to say they were right. You could just say you knew why they were mad. I was sick at what he said and no I'd never go to a church under a pastor with whom I entirely differed or who had said that. But he's more than a pastor, he's a Black American. I think it's funny that anyone would retort without considering that. Query: is it possible not to take total responsibilities for the actions of your ancestors and yet to understand the victims’ hurt enough to hug them when they’re rightly bitter instead of demonizing them? You wouldn’t even have to say they were right. You could just say you knew why they were mad. I was sick at what he said and no I’d never go to a church under a pastor with whom I entirely differed or who had said that. But he’s more than a pastor, he’s a Black American. I think it’s funny that anyone would retort without considering that.

]]> http://onefinemess.rhinopanda.net/2008/03/18/obamas-speech-this-morning-a-more-perfect-union/#comment-434 Andy Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:03:28 +0000 http://onefinemess.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/obamas-speech-this-morning-a-more-perfect-union/#comment-434 Andrew Sullivan's take is <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/03/the-testing-of.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Andrew Sullivan’s take is here.

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