Comments on: Obama Addresses NAACP in Cincinnati http://fleeep.net/blog/2008/07/15/obama-addresses-naacp-in-cincinnati/ Politics, Technology in Education, Art, Music, Life Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:31:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jonathan http://fleeep.net/blog/2008/07/15/obama-addresses-naacp-in-cincinnati/comment-page-1/#comment-10660 Jonathan Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:46:56 +0000 http://fleeep.net/blog/?p=455#comment-10660 I actually found the New Yorker cover to be clever and entertaining. I mean, it's satire, right? And personally, if Obama really WERE militant or anti-American, then I'd like him a whole lot more, but I don't think the artist of the cover was suggesting they really were (that or political Islamists or Black Nationalists), but instead humorously depicting them as something that their opponents are implying (or outright saying) they are, but which they obviously are not. I actually found the New Yorker cover to be clever and entertaining. I mean, it’s satire, right?

And personally, if Obama really WERE militant or anti-American, then I’d like him a whole lot more, but I don’t think the artist of the cover was suggesting they really were (that or political Islamists or Black Nationalists), but instead humorously depicting them as something that their opponents are implying (or outright saying) they are, but which they obviously are not.

]]> By: Eric Easter http://fleeep.net/blog/2008/07/15/obama-addresses-naacp-in-cincinnati/comment-page-1/#comment-10450 Eric Easter Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:13:07 +0000 http://fleeep.net/blog/?p=455#comment-10450 I did not suggest that he duck the issue at all. What was asked by the moderator was whether he should address the "firestorm", a term which wildly overstates the issue. I took that to mean as the main topic of the speech. I simply stated that there was no reason to pander to issues that were seen as "exclusively" Black and that African American voters considered themselves to be concerned about the same issues as others. Wisely, he followed that route and made a broad speech of which that topic was only a small part. Listen again. Eric Easter, EbonyJet.com I did not suggest that he duck the issue at all. What was asked by the moderator was whether he should address the “firestorm”, a term which wildly overstates the issue. I took that to mean as the main topic of the speech.

I simply stated that there was no reason to pander to issues that were seen as “exclusively” Black and that African American voters considered themselves to be concerned about the same issues as others.

Wisely, he followed that route and made a broad speech of which that topic was only a small part.

Listen again.

Eric Easter, EbonyJet.com

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