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For the longest time, besides family, black people would only put three pictures up on the wall: Jesus Christ, Nipsey Russell and John F. Kennedy. The Kennedys, in general, have always had a soft spot in the hearts of many black folks because they have always been, as old timers say, “good white folk.” The kind of white person you didn’t have to worry about giving you the soul handshake (WTF?), talking black jive to get along or dropping the “N” bomb by accident. They were the kind of white people who are at ease with everyone; white people you could have over to dinner. The Kennedys as Irishmen, knew how it felt to be marginalized and, despite their wealth, this marginalization seemed to inform the politics of the whole family. The passing of Edward “Ted” Kennedy last night doesn’t just leave a gap in the Democratic Party. Who will bring his empathy and compassion for the rest of America? Who will take up his causes?

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mscpa2u/ mscpa2u

    Wow the title is somewhat disrespectful this man was more than just a color. Come on BP have some respect for the dead! SMDH

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mscpa2u/ mscpa2u

    RIP SENATOR Ted Kennedy you can now rest at ease with your the rest of yur family!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kullmack/ kullmack

    THE KENNEDY FAMILY HAD MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. INVESTIGATED AFTER PUBLICLY BEFRIENDING HIM AND LATER TURNED ON KING AND HIS FAMILY. THE KENNEDY FAMILY ALSO WAS TWO FACED IN IT’S PRACTICE AND POLICIES AGAINST THE WORKING BLACK MAN.ATTACKING THE TEAMSTERS AND CONSTRUCTING AND SUPPORTING LEGISLATION THAT KEPT BLACKS OUT OF TEAMSTER CONTROLLED UNION JOBS ESPECIALLY THE HIGH PAYING ONES. AT BEST THE KENNEDY’S HAVE BEEN TWO FACED TOWARD BLACKS IN POLITICS WE NEED TO STOP BLINDLY SUPPORTING THESE SO CALLED GOOD WHITE FOLKS JUST BECAUSE CORRUPT COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY NEGOROES(SAY SO) WHICH MEANS ANTI-BLACK LIBERTY,ANTI-BLACK BUSINESS,ANTI-BLACK POWER,ANTI-BLACK CONTROL OVER ANYTHING PERTINENT TO BLACK PEOPLE JUST AS OTHERS CONTROL WHAT IS GERMAIN TO THEM. THE KENNEDY’S SUPPORT WHITE SUPREMACY PERIOD. WE HAVE WAITED LONG ENOUGH. WHEN A CRIME IS COMMITTED ACCORDING TO WHITE LAW A TRIAL IS HAD, A DECISION OF JUDGEMENT IS RENDERED, AND STOLEN PROPERTY IS RECOVERED AND RETURNED TO THE OWNER,AND THE GUILTY ARE PUNISHED IMMEDIATELY. GIVE ME BACK MY AFRICA, VACATE MY COLONIZED LAND AND PUNISH THE GUILTY WITH A JUST PUNISHMENT EQUAL TO DEATH.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JayG_21/ JayG_21

    mscpa2u i totally agree there are some very bitter and ignorant people on here who have no respect period let alone for the dead.You have to understand that the only people who will get their respect are illiterate rap artist who rant on about the most vile and disgusting things you can imagine.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jville_juliet/ jville_juliet

    “Good White Folk”!!! Are we serious??? This is sad, it sounds like we have went back in time. Whoever is writing this need to have some respect for people and realize that this is not 1890. We got to do better!!! Why should color and race have to be an issue? He was a good man, point, blank, period. That was all that was needed to be said. All the extra “colorful” words, no need for them AT ALL!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SWANKness/ SWANKness

    are you serious? good ol white folk? since when did we as a people start minimizing others in that way, let somebody had said that about MLK or Mrs. Parks & it woulda been a riot. Sen. Kennedy wasnt just good ol white folks, he was a man that stood up for us in the civil rights movement. and while both of his brothers were assissanted he still gave his life to make america and americans better. as rich as he was he could’ve sat at home and did nothing, smh how disrespectful in deed.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/new_vision_89/ new_vision_89

    “Good White Folk”!!! Come On BP you can do better than that.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trinidivine/ trinidivine

    Rest in Peace Mr Kennedy…..god bless you and family for the contributions you made towards the civil liberties of Af AM. I do think that the heading could have been addressed differently. However,it’s a pt they’re trying to make. At a time when Af AM needed the system to address their needs the Kennedy family were willing. I’m sure they were met with resistance and these occurances are what most ppl probably are aware of. But all in all they played a part in our struggle for equality. Respect.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Malcom said if u find a good white man kill him before he turn bad

    That so called good whyte man is the worst kkkracka u could have around u. I didn’t see ted or any of those otha kennedys standin in front of hoses and german shepards hell the muthaphukas sent in the four legged dogs and the even more vicous two legged dogs

    Nat turner owner was one of those so called good white man and he and his wife and newborn baby was the first to feel the blow of that mighty ax

    Bill clinton was a so called good whyte boy but this beast sat in on the execution of a brotha who was so mentaly challenged that wen they asked what he wanted for his last meal he said he would have it AFTER THE EXECUTION. This was in his home town arkansas

    Jim jones anotha friend of the black folks he even loved RED KOOL AID that put ova 900 negros to sleep permanently

    Yall can have dem good whyte folks. Keep them bastards the hell away from me

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    …And tell it like it is kullmac that whyte bytch always came in smillin and beguilin

    These beast always had us out front fightn for shyt they wanted. Look at the silly negropean crispus attiks the naga shuldv died. 1700′s nagas was fightn to be free but this naga helpn this kracka fight ITS brotha the british

    Kullmac most theses ppl r jus a whyte mans naga and workn hard at it everyday

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JayG_21/ JayG_21

    Life is tough,its even tougher when you’re stupid

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JayG_21/ JayG_21

    maatra whatever it is you got in that crackpipe please stop smokin it.You obviously have no idea what the f**k you are talkin about.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JayG_21/ JayG_21

    Everytime you come on here maatra you speak as if the world is out to get the “black man”,GIVE IT A F**KIN REST.Nobody told your dumbass not to go to school and im sure you’re gonna have an ignorant explaination for that s**t too.GIVE IT A REST AND GO READ A F**KIN BOOK,PLEASE.Then after that do the hooked on phonics thing like I said on the last blog.You are just as pathetic and undereducated as the bulls**t you write on these blogs.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    They say wen u throw a rock at a pac of dogs the only one dat hollas is the one that got hit

    Malcom x said if u not an anger black man or woman in amerikkka u r a insane black man and woman in amerikkka

    The white mans naga will bark bite kill bury and shyt onits own kind without the masa sayn a word. Thi naga is a good watch dog.

    This naga is like a meowing dog severly psychologicaly damaged. Fetch ubu fetch. LMBAO

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    …But back on ted this beast aint die soon enuff. He lived to long

    Black ppl aint got no friends and like dr john henrick clarke said we don’t owe nobody nuttn but a azz whoopin

    BLACK POWER

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    its funny, I didn’t go to school but I recognize my enemy. You went to skool and u don’t recognize your enemy. Our enemy wears all whyte even wen he’s naked

    The western skool system is destroyin our warrior brothas. It turnin out to many weak puzzies

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JayG_21/ JayG_21

    Malcom x also changed his views on race relations after his journey to Mecca so like i said go read f**kin book.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JayG_21/ JayG_21

    Second of all you love to quote from the great Islamic activist but because of your obvious ignorance fail to realize that Islam is a religion of peace,all I have heard you speak of is hatred.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/panamaniak/ panamaniak

    Oh leave Ted alone! The Kennedys! The Original Thug Fam! Papa Joe where you at B?!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JayG_21/ JayG_21

    But as my bible says,i will not argue with a fool,so thats all i have to say

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jville_juliet/ jville_juliet

    ARE WE F**KIN SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!! WITH ALL THE ACHIEVEMENTS THAT WE AS AFRICAN-AMERICAN ( OR A SOCIETY FOR THAT MATTER) HAS MADE, THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE COME TO!!!! YEA, WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THE ENEMY, BUT COME ON, WE HAVE TO BE FIVE STEPS AHEAD OF THE GAME. WE REALLY GOT TO DO BETTER!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JayG_21/ JayG_21

    I agree that we have to recognize the enemy,but you have black people like maatra that make it seem like every body is the f**kin enemy,that all white people are devils,COME ON!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jville_juliet/ jville_juliet

    jAYg_21, Do not entertain this. sometimes ignorance is not bliss

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jville_juliet/ jville_juliet

    I know just let him go on. we still have people in the world who think like that like i say sometimes ignorance is not bliss

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JayG_21/ JayG_21

    I know I did,like I said before,even the bible says not to argue with a fool.lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Euqinimod21/ Euqinimod21

    I’m a youngin, so I really didn’t follow up with him. But I respect the fact that even though he was sick he still spoke up at a gathering for Mr. Obama…I send out my condolences to the Kennedy family, and hope that his spirit lives on…R.I.P bro..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jayb142/ jayb142

    The Kennedy family spoke up for justice and fairness when it was not so popular to do so. Much respect !!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LIBRAGIRL26/ LIBRAGIRL26

    THANK YOU SEN. TED KENNEDY FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR NOT JUST AFRICAN AMERICANS BUT ALL AMERICANS! MAY YOU REST IN PEACE! MY CONDOLENCES AND PRAYERS GO OUT TO THE ENTIRE KENNEDY FAMILY.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    What uncle rukus say “color folks talkin bout slavery, whutn nutn wrong wit slavery least we had good food back thur uh huh uh huh. White man sho culd b yo friend”

    Question? Who set up jim crow and segregation? And by john kennedy bein the most powerful person in da nation (president) and being a friend of the black folk, why didn’t the good whyte boy with the stroke of a pen end jim crow?

    The kennedy sent in the national guard only because nagas start fightn back.

    Many of us only know what the tell lie vision tells us. if the white beast aint never treat us right he will never teach us right

    Instead of attackin my views and opions attack those good whyte folks that allow the schools to continue that lie that columbus discovered amerikkka.

    God in jeremiah 10 said do not follow the way of the gentile (white ppl) they are dullhearted and FOOLISH. Jesus told his disciples to teach the wprld BUT donot go into the city of the GENTILES (white ppl) thus sys the lord
    This is in yo bable

    Remember we are the children of ham and they are the children of japeth thus all races was born

    Dr. Khalid said y kill da white woman in south afrika under appartheid cause she is the military manufacturing center and every nine months she lay down on her back and reinforcements roll out from between her legs. So shut down the military manufacturin center

    Hey ted at that time was part of the apartheid of amerikkka

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    And its 2009 and many say it don’t matter what color jesus was it was about the message but this kkkracka in 2009 still paint him white never black wen in daniels and revelation it says his hair was like wool and feet like burnt brass and jasper sooty skin

    Y didnt ted call his christians brothas liars for paintin a false image of da lord

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tried-N-True/ Tried-N-True

    LMAO: Black people have again been fed BS and have eaten it up while smiling and not knowing what they were eating. Yea, he was good white folk—The kind who would pat you on the head and say: “Good boy.”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lsmith1981/ lsmith1981

    Nothing White is Good. They have a Conscious too, But Their Views would call our Views Ignorant.!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/courtneyR/ courtneyR

    This link is one of the reasons why black people pay their respects to the Kennedys.I tell you this,they tried dealing with the climate that they had to deal with.Things werent as simple as you may think.

    http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Kennedy-Bush/John-F-Kennedy-Civil-rights.html

    RIP Teddy Kennedy..Give respect when its due.John Lewis was their.He would know.

    Democratic Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who worked closely with Kennedy on civil rights issues, said Kennedy was “our shepherd, he was our champion, he was our leader.

    The first major speech Kennedy made on the Senate floor was in support of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which banned discrimination based on race or gender in public places, schools and places of employment.

    “He didn’t have to do it. He was not from the heart of the American South … but I think because of his upbringing, his faith, his passion, he would say over and over again, ‘We must do what is right. It’s the right thing to do. We have a moral obligation,’ ” Lewis said.

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