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Old July 2nd, 2008, 10:05 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sephari View Post
clearly you don't get it. everybody is mad, not at what he said (which i think every one here would acknowledge as being correct), but why he said it: to get on white people's good side. you have to remember that he knew that there were cameras there and that anything he would say the white folks would love to hear, and whatever he said would be broadcasted to all the white people he could want.
He said what needed to be said, Period. He was speaking in a black church when he made that comment. If you listen to the full speech, he did praise fathers that were doing the right things. Why would any black man who is holding it down for his kids get offended by what he said...he wasn't referring to you!!!
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