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Which brings me to the main reason I delayed writing about Obama. For me, it was a trick question in a game I refused to play. Since the issue was always framed as a battle between gender and race (read: non-whiteness -- the question is moot when all the players are white), I didn't have the heart (or the stomach) to point out the obvious: Obama isn't black.
"Black," in our political and social reality, means those descended from West African slaves. Voluntary immigrants of African descent (even those descended from West Indian slaves) are just that, voluntary immigrants of African descent with markedly different outlooks on the role of race in their lives and in politics. At a minimum, it can't be assumed that a Nigerian cabdriver and a third-generation Harlemite have more in common than the fact a cop won't bother to make the distinction. They're both "black" as a matter of skin color and DNA, but only the Harlemite, for better or worse, is politically and culturally black, as we use the term.
The Question said:Meh, I doubt it. Shit, we let Bush railroad us into that shithole Iraq, we'll probably let him railroad us into this Iran bullshit, and we let him look the other way while Mexico circles the southwest with the We-Own-It-Now pen. Now there's a muslim trying to become President. If he's elected, we'll be a theocracy under Sharia law inside of the first year, because Americans have forgotten that being Americans is worth anything.
bad dog said:That nigger should be in iraq cooking fried chicken for the troops.
Astaroth said:If he's really out to change things he's a dead man IMO.
Cranky Bastard said:America isn't worth anything any more. We have purposely removed all that made America great, setting ourselves up for a bloodless conquest.
America was dying before the North won the Civil War. When the South lost, it was the deathblow to the Constitution.
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