Is America still too racist to elect a Black President?

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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,895
    I think there are many whites that would vote for a white candidate over a black candidate because of only color.

    I think there are many blacks that would vote for a black candidate over a white candidate because of only color.


    I think they are all idiots.
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  • Pacomc79
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    all I can say is that we have a black female mayor here in Atlanta and she's probably done the best job of anyone in the last century, because she is actually paying attention to infrastructure.
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Nothingman54 wrote:
    Thats fine if your disgusted. I live in the most dangerous city in the U.S. Its ran by a black guy, he has proved himself to be very racist and cares only about blacks. Blacks care only about blacks, thats why they would never get my vote. I hang out with a couple black guys that I work with a 3 times a month but I wouldnt vote for them.
    And yet you can say, presumably with a straight face, that you are not a racist?

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  • MakingWaves
    MakingWaves Posts: 1,294
    pushmepullme wrote:
    If America had 2 guys standing for election, one white, one black, is America still too racist to vote in the black guy? Particularly in the southern states I think people would vote for the white guy, because he's white.

    I am so tired of this southern sterotype. I have been all over this country and guess what? There are racist everywhere. So I have to say you are wrong that in particularly in the southern states people would vote against the black guy. If the black was conservative and the white was liberal, the black would win every time in the south.
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  • pushmepullme
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    I guess we know the answer to this question i posed two years ago now!!!
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  • Anon
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    Look Strom Thurman is back from the grave.
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  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    I saw on the coverage last night a statistic that stated:

    For people in which race WAS AN ISSUE for this election - 55% of them voted for OBAMA.

    I'll say this, it's pretty sad that race is even an issue at all, but it looks like the racist majority won this one.
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  • g under p
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    know1 wrote:
    I saw on the coverage last night a statistic that stated:

    For people in which race WAS AN ISSUE for this election - 55% of them voted for OBAMA.

    I'll say this, it's pretty sad that race is even an issue at all, but it looks like the racist majority won this one.

    Well maybe they decided to vote for the white half of Obama, you never knowI could be.

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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    know1 wrote:
    I saw on the coverage last night a statistic that stated:

    For people in which race WAS AN ISSUE for this election - 55% of them voted for OBAMA.

    I'll say this, it's pretty sad that race is even an issue at all, but it looks like the racist majority won this one.
    Race is an issue for you. Yes. You make that very clear. You're always trolling for a fight about it.
  • Staceb10
    Staceb10 Posts: 675
    Pacomc79 wrote:
    Or black people voting for them because they are black.


    Do you think that didn't happen? I'm not saying every black person that voted for Obama did it simply because he's black. But I think its safe to say that a large percentage of the votes were for that very reason. Now its time to see what he can do.. regardless of his skin color.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    Pj_Gurl wrote:
    Race is an issue for you. Yes. You make that very clear. You're always trolling for a fight about it.

    Nope. You have that one wrong. Anti-racism is one of my biggest issues....I just happen to see that you have to stop it on both ends, not just one.
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