NYC Mayor Upset Over Rangel's Obama Quips

BRAVO!BRAVO! ~ You are so right! They are slowly going away! I am of the same generation, a little younger yet I try to live in contemporary times.
Young people are so right for their generations! Old folks should butt-out and allow young people to decide a future which is theirs not ours.
Peace, Genie

Did you even read the artical ? How much have things really changed if your're getting shot just for being black . Black cop shot by cop . If he was white do you think he would have got shot ? For you to make such a comment I bet you're white . I tell you what get a good black friend and go out with them for a week . I promise you won't say the same ignorant comment . I have black friends that are very wealthy people .We'll go in the same store dressed the same way but they follow her around the store watching her as if she don't belong here . Is that fair . So how has times changed ? Yes we have a black president but we have a long way to go .

Why we don't lighten up a little bit, stop to be sooo extremely "politically correct" and accept a joke or a joke looking truth?
I have to be careful on every word I say in front of someone who is not of my gender, race or ethnic background! I am Italian and I laugh if someone refers to me as Wop, Mafioso or Spaghetti. What the Hell, I am
secure enough to know who I am regardless of what someone else think.
And, yes, Obama should not run on a sidewalk in Harlem, Watts or some other Baltimore or Chicago neighborhood.

How hilarious it is for the "next generation" to complain at how things have changed and that people need to move on. The only reason that things have changed is that this "other generation", fought and struggled to make things better. How forgetful children can be. They think everything was created today and that things are so good that nothing needs to be done to make it better today or tomorrow. How sad and short-sighted, not to mention ungrateful. The nature of man is that he will take advantage of, manipulate, enslave, coerce, etc. ad nauseum; his fellow man. That is why governments and authorities were created. To deal with man's unfairness to each other, lest they resort to long term fueds like the McCoys and Hatfields. What's that you say? Another example of how ignorant it is to not be familiar with your history. The same mistakes will be made over and over again, unless we stand up and speak. WE ARE NOT MONKEES. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. That is what the young generation desires. To be monkees with no reflection on what they or their country did right and wrong. If we want to do the right thing, then we must be vigilant, which includes pointing out patterns of behavior in society. That is all these "so called rabble rousers" are doing. So, you kiddies attack the messenger. Without the past and knowledge of a past (both right and wrong), a society can generate into a "Lord of the Flies" situaton in a generation or two. It has happened before with the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and it has happened in the USA. The indigenous populations (not all own casinos), suffer quietly, so the suffering continues. This country does not address and correct injustices unless it is forced to. All these gentlemen are doing is what Shakespeare did (albeit in a short form), satirizing past behavior that is still alive and going strong. The tongue in cheek remarks are meant to provoke thought. Unfortunately our children prefer to be monkees pretending everything is grand and that no further work or discussion on race relations, gender relations, nationalistic relations, etc., is necessary. Poor kiddies. It is ultimately my generation's fault. We kept your education narrow and provincial, so that you would gladly accept your fate as cogs in a society that uses your skills and returns you nothing in return. Good luck kids. You'll need it without the introspection you mock.

Dumbass !!! When we are gone,so goes the United State's.You are right,We are getting too old an few to protect the U S And for sure you worthless piece's of S__t will never be able to talk your way out of it

The most racist of all people are Black. It works for them and they use it to their advantage all the time.

The Old Generation is dying but Bigotry has a new life in your comment.

koool comment.

Unfortunately racial issues have always been around since the dawn of time, and they will continue to plague our's and future societies. There will always be the haves and have not's. People will always be placed into various roles, and prejudices will always exist. Remember that there are just as many racist 'minorities' as there are racist 'majorities'. In fact, in my community, if you are white, you don't get the jobs and you're looked down upon. In my eyes that is racism but only in reverse. As a whole we have come a long way, and hopefully we will continue to strive to be better. Let's just hope that the pendulum doesn't just swing to the reverse side of things.

The question is" Is he lying?" The answer is no. Change the mindset of white superiority and we will not have these problems.

While times are changing we are not their yet....I think what he said didn't need to be said but none the less is true...Honestly any star going any where without their security is faced with the same dangers we all are...

That comment had little to do with "old generation" and everything to do with black and white. That very unfortunate incident simply should not have happened, given proper training instead of officers with lose and fast triggers. NYPD and Bloomberg probably could have done without the statement but it does not change the facts. That police officer should not have died, plain clothes or not, off duty or not, if the shooting officer had excercised the correct approach.

i agree, forever scarred they are!

No, Rangel had it right. I've been in New York at least 50 times and found that the racism runs deep. Bloomberg can be upset. But, the fact remains that you can't trust a white cop in the city.

What he said was not racist it reality. And I'm not from the old generation.

I hate bama AND biden. Still has nothing to do with skin color.
Google Drunken biden and obama smoking pot (he's all pimped out).
Good laugh

It does have something to do with skin color. The only thing is that if you haven't been black in America, you wouldn't know.