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Originally Posted by powerclown
Glass half empty, glass half full...you're aware there was this black guy just democratically elected to the most powerful and important position on the planet? I can't imagine a more substantial racial progression than that, and funny, but where else in the world could that possibly ever happen but within the good ole US-of-A, which is really what this conversation is trying to be about: maintaining and fomenting the image of America as a place of crippling, overwhelming racism. Characterizing it as such just a few weeks before a Barack Obama Presidency seems to me more obnoxious than anything else.
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I dont recall anyone saying it was "crippling and overwhelming"
I know I said that we have made enormous progress just in my lifetime (when we had "whites only" signs across many cities).
Yet, that progress, including the fact that a black man could be elected president, does not mean that institutional barriers dont still exist for many blacks for no other reason than the color of their skin.
half full? half empty? either way the picture is incomplete and the progress needs to continue....unless you believe that we should stop now and pretend the problem has been solved because one man achieved the highest office in the land.