Every time I hear what huge Obama supporters people are (Reply #22)

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Mon Apr 27, 2015, 05:49 PM

Egnever (21,506 posts)

22. Every time I hear what huge Obama supporters people are

All I can think of is how I had to drag my black friends to vote for him in the primaries. I realize that this was before he was the nominee but it has always struck me as odd that I had to beg them to support Obama over Clinton.

This of course is coming from a white liberal so feel free to discard my efforts.

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41 replies	Author	Time	Post
If YOU have issues with Cornel West-well, what are they? [View all]	Ken Burch	Apr 2015	OP
Only one comment - Eric Dyson is not attacking from the right	OKNancy	Apr 2015	#1
He's attacking from Dr. West's right, seems to me.	Ken Burch	Apr 2015	#2
didn't seem that way to me... I mean West called Obama the "global George Zimmerman"	OKNancy	Apr 2015	#4
It would have been better if he'd published his piece in The Progressive, or The Nation	Ken Burch	Apr 2015	#6
I read an interview. He explained that	OKNancy	Apr 2015	#7
He cites the former editor's slams on Race Matters twice	JonLP24	Apr 2015	#16
Thank you. That inaccurate portrayal in the OP just renders the rest of it kinda moot imo.	Number23	Apr 2015	#10
Yeah - because Dyson is on the right smdh	JustAnotherGen	Apr 2015	#13
"Do these people ever get out of the white liberal bubble and get out in the world?"	Number23	Apr 2015	#21
Every time I hear what huge Obama supporters people are	Egnever	Apr 2015	#22
Many black folks I know felt the same. That white people are still so inherently racist they would	Number23	Apr 2015	#23
Nope they weren't wrong about that	Egnever	Apr 2015	#24
I know.. I'm not engaging anyone who accuses Michael Eric Dyson for calling out the disingenous,	Cha	Apr 2015	#33
My main issue with him is that he uses long words when short words will do.	Cheese Sandwich	Apr 2015	#3
West isn't making intellectual arguments, he made	onecaliberal	Apr 2015	#5
What is that based on	JonLP24	Apr 2015	#17
I stand by my statement. When you attack	onecaliberal	Apr 2015	#20
I dislike his jacket.	Katashi_itto	Apr 2015	#8
Inaguration Tickets.nt	bravenak	Apr 2015	#9
I know, huh? Key	Cha	Apr 2015	#34
I knew somebody would feel me.	bravenak	Apr 2015	#35
Psychic, you!	Cha	Apr 2015	#37
His habit of using name calling in an attempt to shame others for one	mythology	Apr 2015	#11
Damn. There's the answer.	randome	Apr 2015	#19
Damn well said	Egnever	Apr 2015	#25
Wow.. I join the other posters in saying.. Well Done, mythology!	Cha	Apr 2015	#38
Some reasons here	JustAnotherGen	Apr 2015	#12
"Something irrational is going on,” Dyson said.." Precisely, Gen!	Cha	Apr 2015	#36
His very nasty treatment of President Obama, among others.	pnwmom	Apr 2015	#14
The best thing to do, honestly	JonLP24	Apr 2015	#18
His willingness to associates with anti-Semites like Kevin Barrett and Medea Benjamin...nt	SidDithers	Apr 2015	#15
Medea Benjamin is not an antisemite.	Ken Burch	Apr 2015	#28
She attended a conference full of anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers.	tammywammy	Apr 2015	#30
Did you actually read what she said about attending that conference?	Ken Burch	Apr 2015	#31
"Attacked from the right"??? ...	1StrongBlackMan	Apr 2015	#26
Needs a spin off n/t	JustAnotherGen	Apr 2015	#27
What I said..	Cha	Apr 2015	#39
I respect Dr. West and his right to speak his mind,	6000eliot	Apr 2015	#29
Dyson is a self important, establishment taintlicking hack trying to get good inside track	TheKentuckian	Apr 2015	#32
He's a narcissistic blowhard ,regardless of his politics.	sufrommich	Apr 2015	#40
My primary issue with Dr. West (that I am willing to discuss in this forum) ...	1StrongBlackMan	Apr 2015	#41

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