Do me this favor guys...if Erica posts on another topic and doesn't answer my question, I urge that she be kicked off the forum.
No need to be impatient, Dr. Dan. I have a life outside of this forum and wasn't home when you posted this thread. I can't be kicked out of the forum for visiting my child's school while someone was posting a question to me I didn't know existed until 5 minutes ago.
At any rate, like I said in another thread, if a white candidate was friends with David Duke I wouldn't be angry with him. And I wouldn't automatically assume that a white candidate who would be friends with David Duke has any ties with the KKK. Barack Obama has said that there are people around him that he doesn't agree with on every single thing. The same with my friends. I would worry though if said candidate adopted the same opinions and views of hatred toward blacks or whites.
I have a few friends who are pro-black and I don't agree with their every opinion but that's what makes our friendship great. We can disagree without hating each other at the end of the day. That's just MY way of thinking.
*Any candidate who would start to hate a race because their friend feels the same isnt' a leader, in my opinion...they're followers.*
Ever heard of the saying, "Thou shall not stand idley by as your neighbor's blood is spilled"?
With that being said I think your opinion is the wrong way to think.
Let's just take Hitler (and i'm not saying that Obama is Hitler)..but let's just say for example you had Hitler...and friends of Hitler said that they didnt' agree wtih what he was saying or doing, but was of their own opinion of doing something...
Think about it....
This person who is friends with Hitler turns the other cheek and doesn't rebuke evil...racism of any color is evil you agree with you on that!
but what does Obama want to do instead?
talk with Hamas. Hamas encourages men, women and children to be suicide bombers. Hamas men hide amongst civilians in a time of war.
Obama wants to talk to Ahamadinejad. Ahmadinejad thinks the Shoah (Holocaust of the 6 million Jews) never happened.
If you want to uproot true evil, you can't stand idley by, Erica. This is what you do...you close both eyes and clothes both ears and think that everything will be ok. And then your chidren will grow up and inherit a crappier world with evil people running out and about.
Think about it.
I see your opinion... I disagree with it...When one is silent and doesn't rebuke what their friend says when it is evil and really really evil...Not just disagreeing with it, but simply rebuking that it is not in the spirit of peace, it also makes that person standing