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Originally Posted by powerclown
Starting to sound suspiciously like white guilt to me.
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Is it really so hard for you guys to imagine that a living, breathing, thinking white person just doesn't think the same and come to the same conclusions as you? You have to make up reasons that amount to my deliberately stating that it's the way I think or feel for reasons of 'guilt' or 'popularity'? I don't feel an ounce of guilt for anything - I feel sympathy - I see it, I understand. And quite frankly, I haven't found my views, especially those concerning issues of race and race relations, to be that popular. In fact, I catch a fair amount of hell for them from both sides of the aisle.
How about the more obvious answer which is that I feel the same way about a lot of things as this Rev. Wright does. Can I not feel the same way, see things the same way because I am white?
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And, you know, one more thing...I'm not even that much of an Obama supporter. I have intended to vote for him from the beginning, because I do vote and I have to make a choice. But mostly, I am just disillusioned with American politics. I have no doubt that Obama is a politician just like everyone else and if he wins, he's just one moving van away from becoming another gilded disappointment 'playing the game' for 4-8 years until we do this all over again. So let's not paint me as some avid Obama supporter foaming at the mouth to protect their candidate. The good thing about not being attached is that I can speak frankly. I don't have to disavow anyone and yet I can still support whoever the hell I want to.