It’s amazing how many people compare him to Abe Lincoln.

Because they’re both from Illinois, I guess?

As for this idea of Obama bringing unity, I don’t feel it.

From a lot of these cartoons and what people are saying, racism has been utterly and totally defeated. All Americans are now colorblind. Race will no longer ever be an issue.

It’s funny how naive people are.

No, we’re not.

Nice display of peace, love, tolerance, and all that.

“From a lot of these cartoons and what people are saying, racism has been utterly and totally defeated. All Americans are now colorblind. Race will no longer ever be an issue.”

Obviously not, and the blatant over-simplification of the issues and positions are part of what makes politicians, pundits and anyone who chooses to debate this stuff sound foolish.

I’ll say this tho, this must put the nail in the coffin of the old trope “A black guy can’t get ahead in America”. This shows that if you are dedicated, have a talent and are willing to put in the work, ANYONE can succeed.

Obviously there is still racism in the world. But the idea that “America is endemically a racist nation” has to be taken off of the table. If America was the racist nation urban leaders like to claim, Obama would not have won a single primary, let alone the Presidency. He’d have gotten 12 percent of the vote, period. He got 52-odd percent of the popular vote. Not all of those were white people afraid of being called racist.

Before he has had a chance to a single thing in office, he has become a paradigm-changing inspiration. For that alone, he’s in the history books.

There will still be racism. There will continue to be small-minded people who will insist on finding ways they are superior to another group, whether it be skin color, wallet size or whether or not their bellies have stars. But In one day, a very simple message has been sent.

Yes You Can.

As always from me, a little balance:

http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/?p=3603

Here’s my problem. If McCain had won, would that make the country racist?

Maya Angelou said a few days ago we were going to find out how mature the country was, implying that we were mature ONLY if Obama won.

You know why I voted McCain? Because I disagree with every position Barack Obama has taken. According to Maya Angelou and others, though, it’s because I’m a racist, and that’s bull.

Further, just because Barack Obama got elected doesn’t mean anything for anyone else. This doesn’t mean it’s possible for anybody to be anything. You can only be taken as far as your talent, will, ability, and luck will take you.

Anybody who attaches their personal pride and ability to Barack Obama needs a head check. He’s one guy. If you needed him to succeed to give you confidence, then your confidence is in the wrong thing.

Lift yourself up, because nobody else can, and nobody else should have to. Succeed or fail by your own merits and no one else’s.

I understand the sentiment, but it’s historically incorrect. Lincoln wasn’t for equal rights for blacks and he reassured his voters many many times that he wasn’t. It was the Radical Republicans that had the power to override Andrew Johnson’s veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 that gave blacks legal equality to whites. In fact the Radical Republicans were critical of Lincoln for not supporting the equality for blacks.

But I suppose since their aren’t any giant statues of any Radical Republican leaders this will have to make due.

LOL butthurt