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Whites' Great Hope? (Barack Obama and the Dream of a Color-Blind America)
Wall Street Journal ^
| 10 November 2007
| JONATHAN KAUFMAN
Posted on 11/10/2007 4:33:44 PM PST by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd
63% of registered voters said they believe voters are prepared to elect a qualified African-American as presidentWe've already done that!
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posted on
11/10/2007 4:35:32 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
To: shrinkermd
some things aren't black and white.
Obama is one of them.
To: Old Sarge
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posted on
11/10/2007 4:37:12 PM PST
by
freekitty
((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
To: shrinkermd
About 75% of whites and 85% of blacks say they support interracial marriage. What a shame that so many people are opposed to interracial marriage.
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posted on
11/10/2007 4:40:15 PM PST
by
trumandogz
(Hunter Thompson 2008)
To: shrinkermd
there’s a big difference between electing some one qualified who happens to be black than there is electing some one unqualified (Obama) simply because he’s black.
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posted on
11/10/2007 4:41:32 PM PST
by
SCHROLL
To: shrinkermd
Is DeFreece basically saying Obama isn’t black enough ?
(No response needed ...it’s a rhetorical question)
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posted on
11/10/2007 4:41:35 PM PST
by
stylin19a
To: shrinkermd
"He is close enough to what is a tolerated white norm, very much what is palatable and acceptable and good."
What kind of back handed loaded pile of crap is that? Hey Prof. you are a twit no matter what your skin color is! The real racism: his white students who support Obama are probably doing so only because Obama is black and they want to show how open minded and inclusive they are.
There is one reason I'm NOT supporting Obama: He is a Socialist!
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posted on
11/10/2007 4:41:42 PM PST
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: shrinkermd
I don’t care if he’s black, white, purple or pink-—he is an idiot and not presidental material!!
To: trumandogz
I don’t get that either. I pray my children bring home good men and women who love them and treat them with respect and kindness..who the heck cares what color they are! (Of course, I do want them to bring home a Conservative ; )
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posted on
11/10/2007 4:46:08 PM PST
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: shrinkermd
How many white RATS would vote for Dr Rice?
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posted on
11/10/2007 4:46:21 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(Wanna see how bad it can get? Elect Hillary and find out.)
To: trumandogz
It’s just about as idiotic to support interracial marriage as to oppose it. This is the most personal decision people can make and its nobody else’s business one way or the other.
I’m not sure whether this position means I am “supporting interracial marriage” or not. :)
To: Sherman Logan
I don’t know about you but, I am long since fed up with the mulitculture/diversity Nazi’s in the USA.
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posted on
11/10/2007 4:53:04 PM PST
by
Mojohemi
To: trumandogz
What a shame that so many people are opposed to interracial marriage.I'm not surprised. My daughter's friends' parents, for example, are rabid about their daughter marrying only a nice Iranian boy.They would freak out if she brought home anyone else.Right here in 'tolerant' California.
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posted on
11/10/2007 4:54:05 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: Sherman Logan
Its just about as idiotic to support interracial marriage as to oppose it. That is my point. I am agnostic on the issue as I have no opinion of who someone can and cannot marry
In other words, it is none of my business who my neighbor marries and everyone including the state should not condemn someone's choice of a spouse.
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posted on
11/10/2007 5:00:52 PM PST
by
trumandogz
(Hunter Thompson 2008)
To: shrinkermd
29% said they thought America was ready to elect a black president
I've said time and time again, there will never, ever be a black president elected from the Democratic party, the party of true racists.......
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posted on
11/10/2007 5:01:03 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(I could be Agent "HT")
To: shrinkermd
"Obama doesn't really push people to consider what diversity really is," says Alfred DeFreece, a black teacher at Eastern Michigan University, who says many of his white students favor Obama. "He is close enough to what is a tolerated white norm, very much what is palatable and acceptable and good." This is the core of multiculturalist doctrine. The American mainstream (incorrectly identified as "what is a tolerated white norm") is seen as oppressive. Only those who pursue an agenda of victimology, and wish to divide America into numerous subgroups, are sufficiently "authentic."
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posted on
11/10/2007 5:01:27 PM PST
by
AmericanExceptionalist
(Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
To: Hot Tabasco
I don’t care what the race and or gender is, if I don’t like their politics, they don’t get my vote.
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posted on
11/10/2007 5:10:55 PM PST
by
pacpam
(action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
To: the invisib1e hand
Forget about Obama’s complexion. Look at his votes and he’s a socialist. Why vote for that?
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posted on
11/10/2007 5:12:12 PM PST
by
Thebaddog
(You can be a big dog or a small dog, but I am the bad dog)
To: shrinkermd
I think Harold Ford, Jr., came closer to winning than he deserved to because of his race, not that he lost because of his race. He was an unpleasant young twit with no particular qualifications, far to the left of most of the people of his state, who got as far as he did (election to the House of Representatives) because of his family name.
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