Posted on 09/15/2008 4:59:45 AM PDT by pabianice
The hopes of black America ride on his shoulders. But the outcome's way up in the air.
I am a black man born in 1954, the year of Brown v. Board of Education. Fleeing the abuses of Jim Crow, my parents moved from South Carolina to Washington, D.C., later that decade. Tales of racial oppression and racial resistance were staples of conversation in our household. My father often spoke of watching Thurgood Marshall argue the case ( Rice v. Elmore) that invalidated the rule permitting only whites to vote in South Carolina's Democratic primary. Memories of that story played a large part in producing the tears I shed on the evening Barack Obama won this year's primary in the Palmetto State.
Related memories -- the most haunting being our visit to a D.C. funeral home to pay last respects to Medgar Evers, the courageous head of the Mississipppi branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who was murdered by a segregationist -- helped reduce me to tears, again, on the night the senator from Illinois accepted his party's nomination as its candidate for president.
Never before have my emotions been so exercised by a political campaign. For one thing, never before has a candidate so fully challenged the many inhibitions that have prevented people of all races, including African Americans, from seriously envisioning presidential power in the hands of someone other than a white American. With intelligence, verve and elegance, Obama has opened the public mind to the idea of a black president and made that idea broadly attractive.
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If they do, it will set back civil rights decades.
No racism in this article. cough
They riot at their own peril. I think we’ve had enough of that.
Where is the “Not this $hit again” post.It really applies here.
Bring it on !
This sounds eerily familiar to the Isamic rage at the Danish Cartoons.
Obama’s going to lose.
We’ll see what happens, however I’m not sure Detroit could look any worse than it does. A riot would be an improvement.
Agreed.
You mean if Obama loses, young black males will be out creating violent havoc in our nation’s cities?
So the Bradley effect will become the Rodney King effect?
When blacks riot and burn they do so in their own neighborhoods.
Pretty smart there huh?
How ignorant of Blacks to identify their struggle with a person who has known only privileges that most Americans of any color have not had. Barry scooped up the affirmative action benefits that others won.
They won’t and will not assemble to protest....way too lazy to think for themselves to riot.
Bring it on... it is about time we finish this crap.
LLS
That’s the way to run a democracy, alright. Submit to the side that threatens war in the streets if you don’t hand them the election.
Oh sure. Threaten people with violence to get your guy elected.
How very Chicago.
And why shouldn't it? After all, Black Americans can identify with the 5% Black African in 0Bomba.
Oh, and the descendants of the African side of the African Slave Trade rests on 0Bomba's shoulders too, as he is 45% Arab African!
last but not least, the hopes of white America ride on his shoulders, given that he is 50% white American
Honestly, do many black people vote for someone just because they’re black, regardless of what they stand for?
I am white and I have no problem with a black person being President....just NOBAMA!!!!! The reason I am not voting for Obama is not because he is black, rather it is because he supports abortion-on-demand, voted for live-birth abortion, is inexperienced, and is flat-out socialist!
McCain-Palin’08!!!!
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