Why is Race a Factor?

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Why is Race a Factor?
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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 7:06pm
I dont understand why

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Registered: 09-15-2008
Wed, 10-08-2008 - 7:10pm
there is only one race, and it is the human race. i dont understand how people dont see that.
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Registered: 03-20-2003
Wed, 10-08-2008 - 7:14pm
Unfortunately there are a lot of racist creeps (I could think of other names for them but the censors would not allow it) who want the White House to stay just that.. White. Personally, I'd like to see it pink but that's just me & my crazy obsession with the colour pink. hahahaha


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Registered: 08-16-2007
Wed, 10-08-2008 - 7:15pm
I agree.

Kate

Mama to Savannah, Russell and Jackson

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Registered: 04-04-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 5:40pm

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The White House was pink the other day....for Breast Cancer Awareness.

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Registered: 04-09-2007
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 5:43pm
I heard the pink White House was Laura's idea.
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Registered: 04-04-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 6:11pm
I think her mom or grandma had breast cancer.
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Registered: 05-06-2007
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 7:22pm

<<there is only one race, and it is the human race. i dont understand how people dont see that.>>


ITA.

Chrissy
mom to Aidan 8/21/03
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Registered: 02-24-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 7:49pm

I don't get it either. I think racism tends to be more subconscious and under the radar these days (though not always as we've seen with people calling Obama a terrorist because his middle name is Hussein) but with serious ramifications for society. I heard someone saying (James Carville maybe?) that the polls are a PC measure of who people think should be president and he guesses that when people actually go to vote, the numbers will be much closer. He went on to say that people don't want to admit (even to themselves) that they are afraid in some way of a black president.

I saw this comment recently posted by someone in Texas and thought it makes some really interesting points:

"How racism works--

What if John McCain were a former Editor of the Harvard Law Review and 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 and 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 and Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama were a member of the "Keating 5" and 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?"

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Registered: 08-25-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 7:51pm

There are actually "racist creeps" to use your term, on both sides.


There are whites who, solely because of race will vote against Obama.


There are blacks, who solely because of race will vote for Obama.


It's racism either way, and an invalid basis for judging a candidate

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Registered: 08-25-2008
Fri, 10-10-2008 - 7:56pm

Or alternatively,


What if Obama were a soldier who served his country and was captured fighting on it's behalf, and McCain were a community organizer?


What if

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