On Jun 9, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Wayne Eddy wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "jon louis mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:32 AM > Subject: USA Presidential Race > >>> Is the implication that voters must either vote for Obama or be >>> bigots, iow, the only reason anyone would not vote for Obama is >>> because he is black and they are racist? >>> . . . ronn! :) >> >> i am voting for obama BECAUSE he is black; many more will vote for mc >> cain to prevent a black man from winning... > > I am curious why Obama is being categorised as black? > Given that his father was black and his mother is white, surely he > is brown, > or more to the point a person or an American? > > If he had three grandparents that were white, would he be black, > brown, > gray, white or a person?
In the America in which I grew up: Pittsburgh, PA in the 1960s and 70s, if you had one drop of (N-word) blood in you, you were a (N-word). Plain and simple. I am not even slightly surprised that there is plenty of that going on even today. The candidacy of a black (by that definition) for POTUS will improve the perception of blacks in the USA by a tiny, tiny little bit, but only among people who wouldn't use that definition in the first place. The _election_ of a black as POTUS might shift it a tiny bit more, but we'd be damn fools to think that people use a definition like that are thinking at all. It should be made very, very clear that I was raised in a highly racist culture, and find racism to be extremely abhorrent, even as -- or perhaps better, especially as -- I acknowledge that it lives within me. Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
