“If he loses, it will shake the very ground that we stand on mentally as far as what we need to be to succeed,” said Robert Gordon, a 48-year-old engineering surveyor from Dallas. “From day one, we’ve been told to be a certain way, to be neat, intellectual, speak clearly. He is the symbol of what we were told to be by our parents and by society as a whole. If this doesn’t work, what does that do to our psyche? What do I tell my sons?”
Oh please. Is he really saying that any black man who is “clean cut and articulate” deserves to be president or else his “psyche” will be damaged? Because that’s what I think he’s saying.
Is it possible the Baptist white guy with the military family who fought in Nam or the Assembly of God white woman with the 5 kids whose husband is a high school educated man who works with his hands has more in common with you?
No I see the black skinned guy who grew up in Hawaii and went to Yale to become a lawyer has more in common.
We, he could remind his sons of the success achieved by Justice Clarence Thomas, National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Sec. of State Colin Powell, National Security Advisor and Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice, Lt. Governor Michael Steele, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, and U.S. SENATOR Barack Obama.