Both candidates have carefully avoided the issue of race. It’s always been said that Americans have been brought up not to take skin color into consideration.
But is race not an issue? We don’t want to know if the race of the candidate matters to you personally, but don’t you think that race is more important in the contest than has been acknowledged by opinion leaders and the public at large?
But is race not an issue? We don’t want to know if the race of the candidate matters to you personally, but don’t you think that race is more important in the contest than has been acknowledged by opinion leaders and the public at large?
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Many African Americans are voting for him with race as a big reason. GOP members have tried saying that Obama will never get the Latino vote because Afriucan Americans came as slaves and Latinos came as conquerors. There are many racist white people who refuse to vote for Obama because he is half white, half black.
Fox has even been a bit racist in their news coverage saying things like Michelle is Obama's "baby momma" among other things. Just do a search on youtube for Fox attacks. Better yet I'll save you teh trouble and link it for you.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ouKJixL--ms
lol. wut?
yeah. except not.
Incidentally though, the perspective on religion has changed over the years. When Kennedy ran, there were concerns raised by the Republicans that he would "follow the orders" of the Catholic Church. Nowadays, Republicans tend to warn that someone will not adhere to religious doctrine.
I was listening to a commentary recently that addressed this a bit. Even though Obama strikes me as a person who is even tempered anyway, the commentary was saying that he has to be. Any sign of the "angry black man" and people will freak out.
The stereotypical white fear of people of color is the "Angry Black (Hispanic, Arab, Brown, whatever) Man". Every time McCain got agitated, angry, frustrated, while Obama retained his composure, damaged that stereotype and reduced that fear.
Having one debater get angry can really help the other, regardless of race. Having the stereotypically "not angry" debater get flustered while the "angry" one remains calm, I suspect, enhances that benefit.
It still does not matter what colour your skin is.
Bigotry is no longer the driving dynamic.
Fundamentalism is a function of bigotry.
America is showing its true colours finally.
And we the people are just about to get on top of
Governments, the way that Governments are just about to get on top of
Banking.
Capitalism just went the way of Communism, and ultimately any ism.
The principle remains, the ideology is displaced when the
hubris turns inevitably to catastrophy.
Barak Obama is not primarily operating from a fundamentalists mindset.
He is the front man for a genuine paradigm shift.
No matter how unconsciously, we all get it.
It's human to fear what we don't know, and racism is a direct result of fear. The people who remain fearful and then turn angry are wrong. You remember, fear is how Bush got "elected" [twice].
Fear will keep the US below-average for an industrialized nation.
Racism [fear] will play a card with those uninformed voters who still believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim, or that he's a terrorist due to his middle name, Hussein. The ignorant, uninformed, social-issue voters who don't vote on the political issues.
Do your research, learn that Barack Obama is half-caucasian, half-african american, and get over whatever mis-conceptions you had for someone who looks different than the usual candidates.
Also, side note, what about "the ignorant, uninformed, social-issue voters who don't vote on the political issues"? There seems to be a few grammatical pieces missing in that sentence. Could you clarify?
OTOH, I see people like my parents -- who are older than McCain, and weren't exactly raised in open-minded environments -- who have no hesitations about supporting Obama as the better candidate.
We shall see how it plays out in the voting booth.
It's so sad that in this day and age people still look at the color of others "skin” or “ race or religion" to determine if he or she is the most qualified person for any office. When will it stop? I wish I knew.
Who I want in office is the person I believe is best for the office, NO matter what political party they belong too, no matter what race, religion or the color of their skin is. I look beyond those things, I LOOK at the person and what that person has to say to make my judgment if he or she is the best person for whatever office they are running for.
It's no wonder that with all the wonderful things about this country there is, that still something like this (race, religion, skin color) still come into play. Wake up my fellow Americans, look beyond those things.
Yes, it's there. But it's it the background. I'm sure there were just as many people who couldn't bring themselves to vote for a Catholic, or a Mormon. Race/Religion; it's just another way of being "different" than a particular voter. There are plenty of people who won't vote for someone who's pro-life, or pro-choice. There are plenty of people who claim they'll flee the country if McCain is elected.
It's an issue, but it's only one of many. It is no longer the overriding issue that is was in days that are now thankfully past.