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I’ve no doubt that you have a superlative son.

I don’t think anyone here could doubt that.

We have only to look at and to read from his mother.

You clearly do NOT see both sides of the coin, so please stop trying to be the spokesperson for both races.

It’s offensive that you would refer to anyone by their race, be it a beautiful black son, or a well-spoken black man.

You’re going to act as if you wouldn’t be offended by Time magazine having their “Times 2010 White Person of the Year”?

Be proud of your son for being a wonderful man. Give credit to a well-spoken man. Leave the race out of it.

You are not special for being black.

You are not special for being white.

Nobody is special until they work very hard in their lives to prove otherwise.

This is the ugly face of racism. If race matters, then prejudices are validated.

I am no longer interested in continuing this debate with you. I believe your heart is in the right place but your brain is no where to be found.

Yes, black people need to transcend.
Yes, white people need to transcend.
Every race needs to stop being a color in order to solve our problems.

Don’t confuse transcend with transmute.

When you transcend race, you rise above the meaning of race, you don’t become anything different. Blair L.M. Kelly should have put some thoughts into her comments.

In fact, if your son was white, he (and you) would be considered racist white supremacists for making any statement denoting white pride.

And yes, true beauty will always transcend every physical characteristic we may possess.

I fully understand the quotes, and again I say remove that chip from your shoulder. Should I say “Obama seemed very black in his speech”? And if you said “Joe Cooper sounds very white”, you think I wouldn’t be offended?

What color do you “think” I am?

My point is it doesn’t matter. It’s a good thing to forget race and listen to someone as a person.

”When you say we’re going to transcend race, are white people called on to transcend their whiteness?”
”When (black people) transcend it, what do we become? Do we become white?” she asked. ”Why would we have to stop being our race in order to solve a problem?”

See how things make more sense when you leave them in their original context?

And to Cecelia,

My son cannot stop being Black. Blackness is as much a part of him, and his experience in the world as anything is. I think it is time for us to see the positive value and beauty in all parts of our humanity, including race. To be valuable and beautiful one does not need to be white, or to transend their color.

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No, it’s logical to look past race because “goodness” is not found there. Goodness is found in the content of our character.

No one should be ashamed to be any race that they happen to be, yet I’m white and were I to start typing out an ode to white pride, you can image the response I’d receive. Anyone else, doing the same thing, would get the same response from me, as well.

I may admire Chinese art and culture, but never to the extent that I assign some component to it that is linked to skin color or eye shape and for that reason is something “other” from me or from your son.

As fellow earth dwellers…he and I share in the accomplishments of Confucius, the Greeks, the pharaohs.

Unfortunately, we have historic examples of what can happen when we assign an importance to race that is more rightly assigned to internals. These internals may have been shaped by racial experience, but they are as individual as the person who harbors them.

(Sophia Nelson, a black attorney, former lobbyist and founder of PoliticalIntersection.com, which focuses on politics, race and gender, said she has been offended by people calling her articulate and intelligent: “That’s saying that people who look like me normally aren’t those things.” )

I would really like to give this person a slap in the back of the head. People who look like you usually aren’t those thing… DUH!! I personally feel she needs to be real. Stop taking up for a race of people that talks stupid half of the time. I don’t care if it is your own race. Grow a pair! Call it dialect or whatever, it’s nothing but a facade. It’s something to make them look cool, and it does nothing but degrade them. My best friends in high school were black. I have nothing against the race of a person what-so-ever. I am not politically correct. I’m a pot calling the kettle black. Sophia, I am not directing this personally to you, but you need to realize something. If people are saying that, it’s because people are thinking that. It’s a connotation that black people have, and it creates a complex in black people, that make the insecure ones take immediate offense. I say, Get over yourself. Although I do not stand for Obama’s politics, I will give him this: He never let his race be an obstacle to get him where he wanted to go. And now he’s at the top.

If you don’t want this perception, then do something about it. Don’t defend it! You might as well spit in the wind!! Help it!

Sorry you feel that way. Since you do, that would fall under “Pot meet Kettle” for you.

To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly

Any point I made about bad internet behavior was in reference to ONE non-gentleman.

Frankly, yes, when start with the supposition that “many of your here are what we term as haters”, you’re lambasting.

Indeed, you’re lambasting…

Lambasting? Did my post make you defensive or cause a negative reaction with you? I’m speaking about debate all you want, just no need to cross the line. So your position is that when I stated no need for pople to “hate” on each other but debate each other with civility, that’s lambasting? Interesting use of word.

What you disagree? Just today you posted/complained to others:

“In fact you acted so hideously there, that the site had to go to registration software.”
“Why do you behave that way”
“but then egalitarian liberals would inundate me with insults about my ancestry”
“Save your personal insults and accusations of ignorance for him:”

Not lambasting? If you want LESS empathy and more “vile contempt”, then no need for you to apply these type of statements on your posts any longer.

Well you discuss parenting skills and I will adress adult civility. And I will advocate more or at least as much debate by the electorate toward those who govern, and less uncivil debate between the electorate. Especially when there is relatively small movement in standard of living for the poor and struggling. My thinkng is there more “focus” and “achievement” for the electorate if we did it that way.

seems you didn’t get my more important point.

Paris Hilton.

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Trust me, she does. No one wants that more so than young women.

So would a lot of child labor (in their own homes) and a healthy respect and awe for adults.

(and while I’m waxing old on the younger generation, let’s have a few more adults who deserved it.)