Hmmm… Arkansas: Thats very interesting…

Obama 08: Im very interested in knowing who he selects as VP.. Im sure he will make the right decision…

Lol, I agree with Obama. No one hardly EVER saw Dick Cheney. Our Vice President was pretty much non-existent the past eight years.

******Come on Barack with your V.P. pick

******The apology is a few years late but I wonder is it because Obama is running

******Wow how many people have the letters in their license and if any of them are
******black?

that license plate thing is ridiculous… how can you let a license plate offend you?

It’s not the word that offends remember… It’s the semantics…. The implied meaning.

I’m sure the random letter generator didn’t intend to abuse…

Then again….

That’s too funny, NGR didn’t look like offensive lettering. That’ s just sad!!
Go Obama,!!!!

I’m glad to see Senator Obama back in the states. This country is so full of itself until no one believes that blacks are owed an apology. I listen to white liberals and conservatives talk about the “black issue.” This country is not ready to have an intelligent discussion about race especially now that they can say, “Hey look, we may vote for one of you, what’s your problem?” Many whites refuse to believe that they continue to benefit from institutionalized racism, this is why programs such as Affirmative Action will always remain endangered, and why blacks are seen as people who have it easy. As long as we continue to fall for this so called, “I’m colorblind and I don’t see race bull,” hey race will continue to be the festering sore that it is for this country.

I’m interested in knowing who Obama picks for his VP. I’m it will be someone he trusts.

As far as the apology I must say it it about time, but on the other hand they really are not considering any type or reparations. How come Jewish people are basically set for life continually receiving money from the government and we “may be” getting a public apology or recognition? Thats even if they get the 2/3 vote they need.

As far as the NGR I can see it being offensive and how the woman did not wanna take it. On the other hand as a black woman I honestly didn’t care to recognize it when I first saw it. For all I know NGR could’ve stood for Nigeria which if you shorten it to its most important letters is NGR. I can see the mishap, but also I think we take things a bit too far sometimes.

I’m a black female who isn’t “anti-black”, but I would notice it if I got it, but there are only but so many letter combinations. It was bound to happen eventually.

The license plate thing is just a coincidence. People get so worked up for nothing it’s ridiculous! Why would a racist pay to customize a plate to call out niggers? And the fact it occurred in the South (Arkansas) is the only reason why it’s getting press.

who is Obama looking at for VP? This will be my determining factor in voting for him. I again don’t know what his platform is about. I know the standard healthcare reform, education, yada yada, yada. But what else? This is going to be a tough election. And no I’m thinking about voting for McCain.

First off Arkansas is abbreviated as Ar so quit blaming Alaska. Jejeje

as far as apologizing for slavery, too little, too late. What happen to the 40 acres and a mule we were suppose to get? Japanese, Jews all got their reparations after the U.S. apologized. Us? Nothing!! We must always struggle and have to deal with whatever we are handed!!

i didnt find the license plate offensive?? just because the letters NGR?
people over exzagerate dese days..and wen did dat word ever get abbreviations?.

wow *smh

hey J. Dakar…..

Gotta say you are really informative on the political tip, so I must admit I am a bit surprised to see you abbreviate Arkansas wrong! Arkansas is AR not AK….AK would be Alaska. Just wanted to point that out.

#13 Sorry this is not an exageration when we r trying to better race relations in this country we dont need something like to this to keep the fire burning…so to me itz offensive and pulling the entire series was the right thing to do.

#10: Haha. Thanks for catching that!

#14: I’m far from perfect, so I was bound to make a mistake at some point. You know?

If the plate read “YOO NGR” or “HEY NGR” or somethin along thoze lines then I’d be offended but I can see a random computer generated plate with numbers (018) followed by NGR. Again a personalized plate would be offensive..

——Oh Jeepers! The license plate thing was a coincidence. I hate when people get ——-worked up over silly stuff.

NGR offensive. I think not! The white girls LUV black men in AR!!

I think the Arkansas license plates was a coincidence, but at the same time, if someone didn’t feel comfy accepting the plates, then respect them and assign them another one.

I’ll be praying that Obama gets the “perfect” VP. It’s says a lot to know that Obama invites constructive critisim and ideas from his soon to be VP. Afterall, there’s 2 sides to every story.

yt folks are NUTS!!!!!!

….an apology would heal who’s wounds?

Were is the name of the VP.

APOLOGY FOR SLAVERY & SEGREGATION
Sad, what the hell dose that hve to do with what is going on now. Like I have been saying, parents are at fault for lack of caring enough about their kids and teaching them to be complete Amreican. Even Obama has said that all the government help in the world will do nothing if parents dont get involved. (The only thing I agree with that his has said publicly since I first hear him speak in 2003.) But I know for most of the readers here no matter what their parents did or failed to do it will always be the white man or the government or the police, or the schools or what ever keeping them down. Also At the time reparations were giving out to some black people during reconstuction after the civil war. Jews were giving money not from the America, but from the United Nations. Indians cant just say they are Indian and recieve their funds, they have to have there family name on the Dawes Rolls, Prove they are IIndian with a DNA Test, and compaign to congress. You cant just thow money at the problem, we should have learned our lesson from Katrina.

APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED!!!!!The US government has always had a lot of good sounding words. But the yard stick that I use to govern a man’s character is not his words but his deeds. But the fact of the matter is racism is as American as Apple Pie. In my opinion there haven’t been a whole lot of efforts by the government to stamp out this ugly mindset of white America, that their ethnic stocks are higher than Black people’s. I pride myself on being a realist…I know that if the government was to give every single Negro reparation, that money would double or triple the national deficit and it is not feasible. But the way I look at it, it is better to teach a man how to fish than to fish for him. So giving us money or tangible assets would be a short term solution and frankly how many of us would know how invest those monies wisely? So in my opinion the solution to this would be to grant every Black person in America free college education. This way African Americans will be able to get a good education, and be able to get a job and provide for their families. This way, through education I believe every black person would be able to fish for themselves.

My station sent me to be back up camera on this story when it first broke. This is not news nor is it important enough for people to be out raged. If the white lady felt uncomfortable about the tags she should have just turn them in and not made a big fuss to get on the news. It was very divisive of her. She called us( media) There are kids killing kids, drugs and gang activity killing that part of AR. Nobody want to talk about that. Let’s keep talking about the trival things and ignore the big problems so we will always have something or some one to blame when we dont always do our best.

….What is really hood w/ yall leaving my damn comments in moderation for hellas?!

Obama is the man right now. I hope this country can change for the better we are i a really bad state and we need to over come b4 it gets worse for us. This apology thing is coming so late I wonder about the reason is behind this do it have anything to do with maybe having a black person in the president election being so popular with so many different cultures

Alice was just covering her ***, because she didn’t want to get jumped in a parking lot leaving the mall.

Obama whatever you do dont pick Hiliary…..DONT LET HER IN..!! shes snake, if you pick her you better sleep with one eye open

Obama is the next president and I know that he will choose the right VP to be his right hand man/woman. I got faith in him.

I appreciate all the apologies for slavery. I just wish that the after effects on blacks will soon demise.

The license plate NGR incident doesn’t seem that serious, but ofcourse ignorance in people will take the ordeal to another level. So it’s safe to do away with the NGR initials on any license plate.

I dnt neccesarily thnk the plate is offensive.As #17 pionted out-if it was personalized & the driver was Caucasion w/ a confederate flag flyn frm their antina & HAIL HITLER written across their back window & nooses painted on their car then I’d think twice abt tht person.But if tht is the way the letters fell then it shudnt be that big off a deal…

On the other hand, I can understand y tht lady didnt want tht plate.She prolly jus wantd nothn 2 do w/ nethn tht can associate her with b’n a racist.Whites get so redicules 4 simple stuff now just bc of wat AA’s went thru…or r still go’n thru.If she didnt say nethn & ppl saw her plate she wuda still got slack abt it. she did wat was best 4 her.she went with her feelns and refused it. if she felt that was the right move then hey….
and I am an African American Woman…

What really needs to happen is that the gov needs to be honest, fess up and apologize to what happened to Lavena Johnson…thats what is current and in dire need of an apology. What a shame. An apology for slavery is too little too late as far as I’m concerned and it definitely won’t change our daily lives or our future. I wouldn’t be surprised if it goes nowhere further than it has now, it would take a lot for the entire country (Government) to admit they were at fault, and I don’t think they could do that without opening themselves up for many “monetary” and “reparatory” court cases and lawsuits. Obama ‘08!!!

——Obama 2008 go Obama I know he will pick nothing but the best
——-forget an apology where’s my mule and 40 acres how come everyone who was
—–enslave recieve money indianas(casinos in ca), jews, chinese except blacks
——??????and why now it’s a little to late how long has it’s been since roots and
—–rosewell been out -man i want to move to the uk with kelly rowland or canada
—-sometimes i just don’t get our government

Can’t wait to see who he picks.

Ok Black people we are doing to much when we make letters offensive. When I
first saw the letters offensive I thought they were letters. If anything I would have
thought Nigeria….but that’s just me.

Lol, I want that license plate.

But I want mine to read, “NGR PLS”

Slavery and discrimination is emotional and physical ABUSE and should be repented of to heal the wounds and word curses that have been spoken out against blacks and other minorities. Its no different than emotionally abusing a child, a spouse, etc. with words that say you deserve less or should be treated this way because you are black and different. It has the same impact and unfortunately becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. I heard a minister say that each race God has created has a genetic blessing bestowed upon it, for his glory. States that have apologized show great maturity.

——–The “apology” is nonsense and placation of the simple at it’s finest but I’d be
——–interested to see if they could even get something as frivolous as an apology
——–to blacks to pass in the House of Representatives.

LMAO @ #35. I want that one!

Seriously though, I don’t see the plate as offensive. What I do find offensive though is the fact that they are trying to apologize for something that happened a hundred years ago. It’s too late, and quite frankly I don’t believe they mean it.

Why bring it up now of all times? Is it because a black man may be the next president?

What’s really hood here???

Dukesman2000- You are the TRUTH! I gotta roll with ya on that! Clapping hands, whistling!

I hope that Obama picks the right person for vp because Dick Cheney didn’t do anything. Maybe he should pick someone like Al Gore, he was a good vp for 8 years. It is too late for america to apologize to us they should’ve did this a long time ago, so I won’t accept your apology america. Ameica needs to give us af am’s the 40 acers, the money they was suppose to give us along time ago and the mule. That license plate is not really offensive so I don’t why that lady is making a big deal about it. All she has to do is get a new one like everybody else.

I really hope Obama makes a wise and responsible decision for his VP. I wanna see the VP and too be honest… ever since I knew about the govt’, I never knew anything about the VP. That’s how “not there” they are…. sad. Anywho, that AK thing… I don’t know what to think of it. I mean it was put on white ppls’ plates as well so it can’t be racial. I think this is just another thing being over-analyzed. Speaking of DRAMATIC, wtf is up w/ the apology? How is this gonna make any racists that are still out there “confront their national ghosts” and erase the hate taught? Seriously… if anything it would make us look weaker. Like we need to be pacified or something…. i dunno. I think “suspect” or something because ppl are feeling Obama and its like “lets play nice” now. I truly hope w/ Obama in the oval office, ppl will start to erase ignorant ideals BUT it takes more than that… it takes US to start respecting ourselves first.

i think obama will pick a wise choice. did anyone read the new yorker article (w/the offensive cover) it’s a really good article and obama is SO smart it’s not even funny, i know he’ll make a smart choice. also, a black man has been named a successor to Tim Russert (R.I.P) at NBC

Why did you write: “Obama’s VP Chosen” if you knew he/she wasn’t? Very misleading and annoying and unlike you, who is clearly the best writer here.

I feel like most Black Americans. Too little too late. The best this country can do for me and mine is give us the equality they promised us over 100 years ago - so my Granddaughter can REALLY appreciate living in this so called GREAT Country.

I wouldn’t have even noticed the License plate until someone brought it to my attention. I would have looked at it as three letters - but people can make EVERYTHING and ANYTHING into a racial situation. We really need to CALM down

#43: I thought there was a question mark in that title, but with the day I’m having, I could see how I would think such between draft and published mode. No complaints, though; it’s all good!

j dakar, did cl attend the blogging while brown conference in atlanta last wknd?

018 NGR sounds a little like “Oh I hate Ngr”.. too funny

A lame ass apology after what, 400 years? Fuck the U.S.

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i have no problem with segregation…lack of equality and freedom to roam was the issue..

it is no joy to be around white folks.

#47: Unfortunately, no.

I really think ppl need 2 open their eyes and THINK..if they have a program that prevents offensive plates..explain y this slipped through the cracks.

NGR is the short code for Nigeria, so it would never have meant anything racist to me. You will see in the Olympics that any Nigerian athlete will have NGR on their chest.

I went for early voting @ and happy I put in my vote today- we all think OH!
im just one! if we all did, no-one would vote…I honest to G-d payed attention to the issues I agree with, not the actual person…We live in a damn good country! We should realize it!(yeah!) … I thought it was funny what LANETTE said-(FUNNY)! I grew up around everything in NY and now IM older @in fla. realize it is no joy to be around white folks (Im white)! …..ANYWAYS we can make it all work- the country, the everything…. we all grow up sometime- mature ….and our young country will mature one day- for the better-

what LANETTE SAID WAS FUNNY! (and IM white) true, funny…
hey we all have too grow up sometime- we all have to live in this country together….
we can make this country work some how. it is still young….

MAY the best man for the job win….