Should the United States have a race debate? We never have had one

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officially before, maybe it's time.? We would be the first in the world to do this yes?
Maybe we should just bite the bullet and grab the bull by the horns. All races, black and white are culpable.
Aug 8 1965?
Any reference I can look at.
I guess the answer is we haven't. Just like I suspected. Sad
Yes MLKJr did stuff and so did others but when did we have a debate. We haven't have we.
 
And what would this accomplish? Nothing but even more problems. How would you judge it?
 
White people wouldn't be allowed to participate. We might point out that a black person is black and offend them.

Seriously, the race debate has already happened.
 
yes but its taboo...it may offend everyone but it would help in the long run to get walls down, break stereotypes
 
This seems a lot like playing with matches on top of a powder keg. There are just to many haters in the world and most of them would be interested in this "debate".
 
Have you ever heard of Martin Luther King, Jr? the civil rights movement? if there ever was an official debate, that was it ... history is not to be ignored.
 
Did you ever wonder what was happening back in the 50s and sixties? And it has been happening all over the world for centuries.

EDIT: Maybe you better define specifically what you mean by a "debate" because it really has been debated for centuries, in one form or another (usually each side of an issue presenting its opinions and the other side presenting its side or attacking the first side). Get your head out of your ...
 
I didn't see Obama's speech but I read the transcript online. I think that Obama very aptly addressed the deep-seeded racial tension from both the black and the white perspective. I think he is right on in his analysis of the lingering discomfort most black and white Americans feel regarding the opposite race (even when those feelings and opinions are not spoken of).

I hope that this issue with Pastor Wright will be a catalyst for people to begin examining their own beliefs and prejudices. Maybe a debate isn't what is needed, but perhaps people in churches across the country could start the dialogue within their own churches - honestly looking at and being willing to air their own outdated beliefs and feelings.

If we begin to become willing to question our own answers, maybe the real answers will come.
 
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