What if things were reversed?

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-27-2001
What if things were reversed?
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Mon, 09-15-2008 - 6:59pm
This is my first time posting on this board.  It seems like there are alot of very well-informed and passionate people here!  I look forward to hearing all your thoughts.

 

This was sent to me by a friend, and another ivillage friend suggested I share it here.  It certainly makes you think.

 

What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review? What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class? What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "I do" to? What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?

What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization? What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard? What if Obama were a member of the "Keating 5"? What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

--permission from darrell taylor to reprint for discussion purposes.--


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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-24-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 1:22am
I really enjoy and look forward to reading your posts!
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-09-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 2:01am
Why thank you.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-24-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 2:21am

Why, you're welcome!


McCain '08


No McCain, no gain!


Obama blah blah blah lol blah blah........blah blah blah


EDITED TO ADD MORE BLAHS LMAO

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-27-2001
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 8:48am

I'm done.

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-16-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 9:44am

You may be done with this conversation but please, please, please, don't stop posting.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-05-2004
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 9:46am

I don't think race plays as much of a role as we might think.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-27-2001
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 11:29am

Talk about a 180 in the name of politics.


That was exactly what I took from the passage.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-18-2006
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 11:58am

<<If all the dirt they have been drudging up on Obama was applied to McCain they would STILL vote for him because HE is Republican. I'm tired of them hiding behind the so-called "findings" about Obama, which to me don't amount to a hill of beans.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-15-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 12:39pm

"In the real business world, if you compared

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 12:56pm
Yes, I am, and I'm proud of it,just as you are of being a Republican.

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