So, one guy getting the opportunity to be President makes up for hundreds of years of oppression and discrimination. I would say that unless no one would notice (or comment on it) until after an election what "race" someone belongs to, then there is a reason for concern. But I will give you that. Maybe the election of the first black President amends all of America's racialist history. But how does that change today's racial discrimination and disparities for African Americans and other minorities? It was a fear of the cons that Obama would hand out packs of money in the hoods to his bruthas, was it? Well, he should have done it, but he didn't! Members of minorities in the U.S. on average are way worse off than white Americans.

But anyhow... One decisive point anuls your argument entirely. O'bama is not an African American black man! So how would he affect African Americans at all?

by eborujion on 07/02/2009 01:21:50 PM EST

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