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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
the day after the election it made me laugh that every newspaper felt the need to point out that he was the black president
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why did it make you laugh?
the joke is not so obvious to everyone, and i'd rather not jump to conclusions.
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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
I always was under the impression that a lot of people looked down upon multiracial marriages and children spawned from those relationship. Not me, of course, I could give a fuck less, but I remember um half-black/half-white kids getting picked on around here. Though perhaps it's because I don't live in New York or something where everyone looks like that. But I distinctly recall people saying back when I was younger than the BIBLE and GOD don't want people "mixin' dose racez".
Anyway, I kind of thought this was a step forward, electing someone of mixed ethnicity as president. Though, it would've been a bigger step if he was actually a full-blooded black man. And, of course, if the general populace still can't accept that gay people love each other, then we're all just moving backwards very rapidly, so this doesn't make a fuck either way.
Races.. who gives a fuck.
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a lot of people do, unfortunately, as your own story demonstrates...
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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
it means only what YOU designate it to mean in YR HEAD man.
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but what goes on in people's heads is what controls their actions. so if enough people believe a fiction (like, say, the "superiority of the aryan race"), guess what happens?
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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
By giving a black face to the chief executive, you are telling the rest of America that black people are Americans too, not just second-class Americans, but an intergral part of the ever expanding American fabric.
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exactly. while "race" makes no sense scientifically, it is a powerful concept in social dynamics. hence you had a ton of west virgina yahoos who refused to vote for a negro.
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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
that to me
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yes, but you are not everyone. you're a light-skinned latino. if this was a boricua president, you'd probably feel a little extra emotion. hence, if you're any kind of brownskinned person with an "exotic" name (apu? rajiv? ramon?), you would feel comforted by this historical event-- i mean, seriously, people have racial biases they exercise on an everyday basis.
for me, the constitutional law presidency is a great thing, but i'm more excited by the fact that he's a truly brilliant man with a solid sense of ethics, and i've had it with royal-ass unforgivably selfish dumbfuckswith sociopathic tendencies in power. intelligence is just a fucking great thing.