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Originally Posted by TGBTG
Really?? More divided than the 50's, 60's? really?
I know we're not in an utopia, but I think it's a lot better than it used to be.
Give just two examples of how BHO could have united us?
When from the very beginning, the republican leadership set out to limit him to "one term"??
When a lot conservatives and their news outlet consistently labelled him the "antichrist", "lucifer", "not american", etc??
How in the world could he even remotely unite us??
Honestly, it will be easier for a white dude to unite us than a black guy.
Especially as the first black president, he had to walk a very thin line -
Black people will criticize him for "selling out" if they perceive him as criticizing black folks (after all the injustice historically meted out on black folks)
White people will criticize him for NOT putting black folks in check and for their perceived loss of being the ruling class (case in point, Bill O'Reilly's recent rant about the white establishment's loss of power).
So tell me how the first black president had any chance of uniting us again?
Will be waiting...
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I was not alive during the 50's or 60's, so maybe I should have said during my lifetime.
I was raised in a totally diverse environment, with black, white and indian friends all getting along together.
All the way through high school, it was a time where we really did not understand race issues, as there were none.
Some of our parents would get uptight if we dated someone of a different race, but we really did not understand why.
We really did not look at ourselves by race.
Now, most young people seem to view themselves by race, before anything else.
Also, on BHO, I really do not view him as the first "black" president. He is as much white as he is black. So, like me, he is multi-cultural.
If he had announced himself as such, he would have placed race as a non important factor in a person's makeup.
And we could have focused on a person's character, not color.
Sadly, he chose to elevate it.
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