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You forgot to include Michelles admitted hatred for America.
There will be equality in the world when people stop posting with brand names of a person. Black president or just "a president" !!
White president or black president or half and half. Nope. All I hear is "black" president.....and he ain't even black !!
There will also be equality in the world when people realize that not having an "American" sounding name doesn't mean that they are not a true American
This is an INCREDIBLE moment in the history of this country, a country that has a very, very shameful past in its treatment of black people. This is a great day, a great milestone.
Nothing that the racist among you can do about it either except cast your meaningless vote for pathetic mcCain in the losing effort.
Many of us agree McCain is pathetic. And as Larry King said, anyone who uses the race issue to decide this presidential race, is simply ignorant and stupid. Its frightening people still think this way in America, and sad.
There will also be equality in the world when people realize that not having an "American" sounding name doesn't mean that they are not a true American
What exactly is an American sounding name? Running Bear, Kowaski, Castro, Smith or Unitas? There is 5, which is "most American?
and yet others understood the post but hey I';ll try to make it easier for you to understand
Why can we not just be Americans instead of other labels before it
and when people say African Americans refering to blacks or people who are not white it is showing their ignorance of the world and the people who live on this planet as Africans are also white
wings I would give you a rep if I could for a good point you made earlier
It's 1:35 am here in the Midwest, and just a few hours ago, a history-making moment occurred---a member of a minority group was nominted by a major political party to run in the US General election to determine the next President of the United States...
Let's dissect the words 'United States' for a moment, in this context---I am a 50-something black male...I am also a supporter of Sen. Obama, and as such, will be casting my vote for him come November...being a supporter of his does not make me a zombie, nor clueless, nor a cultist, nor any other of the somewhat shocking and venomous labels being bandied about with reckless abandon both here on City Data and elsewhere...I am a veteran of the Armed Forces, having served in the US Army (infantry) in the early 70's post-Vietnam era...and at the end of the day, I am still, first and foremost, a citizen of the United States...that, to me, means this---I fully intend to vote for Mr Obama, and I will hold out hope that he may win...my parents and grandparents have all passed on, and one of ALL of their dreams was to one day see a black man as President...however, if Obama does NOT win, I am still willing to give Sen. McCain a fighting chance, because that's the way our country's political system works, as I was taught in school so many moons ago...
Let me state that again...I am voting for Sen. Obama, but in the event that he does not win the election, then I will applaud Sen McCain on HIS victory, and hope that HE will be able to move the country forward...I'm not gonna waste time pissing and moaning and crying about 'the Man keeping me down' and generally making a loud, violent ass of myself, as was theoretically asked about in a former thread (I believe the subject was 'Will Blacks Riot If Obama Doesn't Win?'---that particular question had about as much sense as God gave a banjo-playing, tuxedo-wearing orangutan to sell fried pies from the back of a rusty pickup truck)...
But I digress---as I stated earlier, at the end of the day, I am still a citizen of the United States Of America, and I believe in the political process, whether my candidate wins or not...I just shake my head in utter disbelief at all the venom and vitriol that has been flying out of the mouths (and off the PC keyboards) of my fellow 'Obamites', the 'Clintonistas', and the 'McCainiacs'...folks, truth be told, nothing is gonna get solved by calling Sen McCain a 'doddering old fool with a rich android wife', saying that Sen. Obama is 'some sort of ill-defined mongrel mix of races with a terrorist's surname' or calling Sen. Clinton a 'brass-balled, power-hungry, narcissistic biaiatch'...at some point in all of this, all sides have thrown all kinds of insults and brickbats at each other, and as the election approaches, it's getting kinda lame...
I'm not gonna suggest that we all join hands and sing 'Kum-Ba-Ya'...that song annoys the bloody hell outta me LOL, and it would be unrealistic to think it would happen...what I DO wish is that everybody would (in the words of the late Richard Pryor) "have a coke and a smile and shut the f*&k up!", and remember that we all live, whether it's peachy or not, in the United States...that's a great word---'United'...can't we all just unite behind WHOMEVER wins the election and move forward as ONE nation, instead of wallowing in 6th-grade playground name-calling? Is that so unbelievable a request to make?
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Okay...time to weigh in here
