Positive affect. However, please remember that when you only count the white votes, a little less than a majority voted for Obama. Was it all race, I don't believe that, was some of it race. Yes, on both sides.
In real life it's had both positive and negative effects. I live in Texas, so I still see a lot of confederate flags, still meet a lot of racist people... I don't mean only whites; hispanics and asians and everything in between.
On YA - I'd say that 85% of the stuff I see has a racist tilt to it. But I'd attribute that to the anonymity factor. Some people can be civil, others just don't want to.
I wish race wasn't an issue, or rather, I wish people wouldn't make race an issue - but you can't erase history, and you can't erase memories, and you sure can't erase trauma....
How do we solve this problem? Is it an information problem; lack of knowledge about other cultures? (Because we really are all the same race)
It's exasperating.
In my next life, if there is a next life, I hope I'm born a butterfly.
For some people it was the pinnacle of the civil rights movement.
I think the election showed most white Americans have moved past race as an issue but it also showed, what was a silent group before, that there is a sizable black community that is just as racist as any white hate group.
The thing is if you voted against Obama because he is black you were labeled a racist.
If you voted for Obama because he is black you are labeled progressive.
I didn't vote for Obama, but I honestly felt that electing a black man as President was a great, and historic milestone. It was probably the single positive thing, in my opinion, that came from the election. But after being called a racist about a thousand times since then, for every instance where I disagree on policy grounds, I wonder just how far we've really come.
The election is not what should be highlighted...what has happened since the election is what is important. A HUGE emphasis is now placed on race, which is sad, because everything being said is untrue. Jimmy Carter really egged it on saying if you are against what Obama is for then you are a racist. That is so much crap. I am against what Obama is pushing as his Facist agenda. I am married to a black man and am certainly not racist, (especially since my kids are half black half white like Obama is) but Obama is turning this Country into something so scary that I hope it never materializes, as I fear for my children's future. May GOD have mercy on us all if Obama and Pelosi get their way....
I think Obama has a unifying influence because people from all walks have a common foe to oppose, we are united against this farce of an administration
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Positive affect. However, please remember that when you only count the white votes, a little less than a majority voted for Obama. Was it all race, I don't believe that, was some of it race. Yes, on both sides.
In real life it's had both positive and negative effects. I live in Texas, so I still see a lot of confederate flags, still meet a lot of racist people... I don't mean only whites; hispanics and asians and everything in between.
On YA - I'd say that 85% of the stuff I see has a racist tilt to it. But I'd attribute that to the anonymity factor. Some people can be civil, others just don't want to.
I wish race wasn't an issue, or rather, I wish people wouldn't make race an issue - but you can't erase history, and you can't erase memories, and you sure can't erase trauma....
How do we solve this problem? Is it an information problem; lack of knowledge about other cultures? (Because we really are all the same race)
It's exasperating.
In my next life, if there is a next life, I hope I'm born a butterfly.
Being human is way too painful....
For some people it was the pinnacle of the civil rights movement.
I think the election showed most white Americans have moved past race as an issue but it also showed, what was a silent group before, that there is a sizable black community that is just as racist as any white hate group.
The thing is if you voted against Obama because he is black you were labeled a racist.
If you voted for Obama because he is black you are labeled progressive.
How does that make sense?
I didn't vote for Obama, but I honestly felt that electing a black man as President was a great, and historic milestone. It was probably the single positive thing, in my opinion, that came from the election. But after being called a racist about a thousand times since then, for every instance where I disagree on policy grounds, I wonder just how far we've really come.
The election is not what should be highlighted...what has happened since the election is what is important. A HUGE emphasis is now placed on race, which is sad, because everything being said is untrue. Jimmy Carter really egged it on saying if you are against what Obama is for then you are a racist. That is so much crap. I am against what Obama is pushing as his Facist agenda. I am married to a black man and am certainly not racist, (especially since my kids are half black half white like Obama is) but Obama is turning this Country into something so scary that I hope it never materializes, as I fear for my children's future. May GOD have mercy on us all if Obama and Pelosi get their way....
Only time will tell. So far I have not seen any improvement from my stand point. I'm still branded racist if I disagree with Obama on anything.
I think Obama has a unifying influence because people from all walks have a common foe to oppose, we are united against this farce of an administration
Still not that good being if we disagree we are racist all but but know I no the real score.
More division instead of inclusion.