"@snatchatron: Are you imply that because she is 100% black, she'd do the smacking, because blacks are well, violent, but since you don't look black and can never be 100% black you won't do the smacking?
That, does not sound nice at all."
"Hey folks, don't give up, maybe the next black President won't think he is black.
Maybe he'll call African-Americans, "Them" and "Those people"
Until then, please don't try to ruin the buzz for us black people.
Black people like Michelle Obama.
Like that 106 year old Black woman who voted for Barack Obama, that Obama mentioned in his speech, the African-American woman that Barack Obama was so happy about because he knew she was so happy that she could live to vote for and see a black man as President.
Because see, he knew why she was happy.
Because he is black.
African-American
Black African-American
Like his wife."
"Notice when Barack Obama recently said "Brothers need to pull up their pants" (google the quote folks, find the video.
BROTHERS
Hmm, who was he talking about?
Hmm, who was he calling "Brothers?"
Whose brothers?"
"Sadly, a lot of people are fully unconscious of their own racist belief that someone who could escape being called Black and/or African-American, even half-way, would not take that escape route.
They cannot accept seeing and interacting with black people around them, and link that man to those people."
"@topsy: Don't let it upset you -- the fact is that Obama becoming President doesn't mean that such mentalities have gone away.
As my 98-year old Aunt said yesterday, a lot of Obama supporters are going to get really nervous over the coming days, weeks and months when they realize they have elected a Black man as President."
"It may be hard for some Obama supporters to accept, but he identifies himself foremost as a black man, an African-American man, and made very conscious choices in his life to reflect that identity in the work he did, the church he attended, the woman he married, and with the family he built.
That doesn't mean he doesn't acknowledge or respect his white ancestry, but it is what it is."
"There are some people, no matter how 'hip' and 'liberal' and 'aware', who are never ever going to understand what it means for those children, and masses of adults, to see Barack Obama become President, to see that African family walk out on that stage.
As a black woman, I don't at all feel this election set back a fight against sexism."
That thread has sucked me in--thank you for being a voice in contrast to what seems like a lot of perfectly "well meaning liberals," reminding me of some of my Obamareasons, namely his first book and his amazing speech about his grandmother and race. Something...amazing, beyond my words, happened Nov. 4th and nothing can change that.
Ahhh, anyway, thanks for inadvertently talking me off my ridiculous PissedOff Ledge.
Your profile picture is hilarious! And your posts have been on-point today. Not to sound like a cheap come-on, but do you come here often? lol I think I would have remembered your posts.
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