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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.
posted by
EX_TURPI
on November 11, 2008 at 3:53 PM
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I'd like to think people voted on a man, his beliefs, his vision.
posted by
Sommy_Boy
on November 11, 2008 at 5:00 AM
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Just because Obama won, we can not jump to conclusion that anti-racism won is my belief.
posted by
Baf4yoo
on November 10, 2008 at 9:18 PM
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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
on November 9, 2008 at 7:36 PM
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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
on November 9, 2008 at 6:49 PM
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I like the questions! I think it will take time, just a bit of euphoria now! sam
posted by
sam444
on November 9, 2008 at 2:07 AM
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becase...
Is not a word, became is.
posted by
food4thought
on November 8, 2008 at 6:50 PM
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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.
posted by
food4thought
on November 8, 2008 at 6:49 PM
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