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Since you have already read my post on the election, you appreciate my perspective. But to answer your question, all you mention had an effect on the outcome: The message, the personality, the triumph over negative racial attitudes,
et al.
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EX_TURPI
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November 11, 2008
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I'd like to think people voted on a man, his beliefs, his vision.
posted by
Sommy_Boy
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November 11, 2008
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Just because Obama won, we can not jump to conclusion that anti-racism won is my belief.
posted by
Baf4yoo
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November 10, 2008
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Here's my take......
One of the big fallacies being promoted is that this election "heals" the wound of racism and
the legacy of slavery, so that nevermore can Sharpton-type race hustlers claim
that America is
an incurably racist nation.......
This is delusionary.
Accusations of racism are going to
increase,
not vanish. The left's mantra going into
this election was that the only possible reason for not voting for the O-man was
racism. Yet roughly 47% of voters or
about 57 million voted for McCain instead.
That's 57 million racists! Racism
is still a massive, gigantic problem haunting America's soul, it is still
America's Original Sin - and every failure of the administration and the Dems running Congress
can be blamed on it.
The real racial problem in today's America
is of course anti-white racism: racial
hatred of whites by many blacks, racial
hatred of white liberals by themselves (what I call auto-racism). This election is going to inflame both.
Does anyone not terminally naïve believe that Rev. Jeremiah
"God Damn America" Wright is going start loving and forgiving white folks
now?
Or that Teddy Kennedy-type liberals
are going to cast aside all feelings of liberal guilt and stop apologizing for
their and America's
existence? Ain't gonna happen......
Man, am I going to catch hell over this.......
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
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November 9, 2008
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Beginning to get a sense of things from food4thought and sam44 which opens
up a different vista from the newspapers.
posted by
Straightforward
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November 9, 2008
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I like the questions! I think it will take time, just a bit of euphoria now! sam
posted by
sam444
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November 9, 2008
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becase...
Is not a word, became is.
posted by
food4thought
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November 8, 2008
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The roots of racism run deep...
Yet, for Obama to win, racism lost some of it's hold. The more moderate and tolerant among us becase more moderate and more tolerant. But I'm afraid the "true" racists among us will dig their heels in even harder now. Change, real lasting change takes a long time.
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food4thought
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November 8, 2008
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