On 2008-Nov-06, at 19:50, Patrick Coskren wrote: > More accurately, it demonstrates that the attempt to make it about > race failed.
With race though, it can also be about culture, and so if I see someone behaving in a racist way, I wonder what it is that they are actually reacting against. If Obama actually spoke like a guy from Kenya, or if he actually dressed like a Muslim (to go with the name), then that would bring out much more resistance. Instead we have a guy who can really speak English, and compose his sentences, and is more of a Western intellectual than most Americans. I knew a lady from Jamaica, and she talked about Jamaicans in a way that, had her words been coming out of the mouth of a white person, would have sounded very racist. But it was the culture she despised, and she herself was black, but essentially British. I really don't see it as a huge milestone--it is more symbolic I suppose. Will Smith and Morgan Freeman have been model cool wise smart authoritative guys on screen for years, and their films have been blockbusters. References to his Pastor can easily be confusing culture with skin colour. See, a place like South Africa wasn't just divided by skin colour--the whites and blacks actually had very different cultures. Stefano _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
