Obama

[tempter]

In spite of my efforts to post more, I've been largely unsuccessful. Partly -- in large part -- that's due to the volume of work I have from school, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit part of it was due to video games and the release of the WoW expansion

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[mindstalk]

The blacks I read about seem to think it's a big deal. And try asking them about racism.

It's not long ago I heard of blacks in suits getting repeatedly passed up by taxis.

In the primaries, 30% of the Democratic voters in some states were admitting race was an issue for them.

[mess_iah]

The classism that you mention is tied indisputably to anti-black racism, and the two feed into each other in a nasty feedback loop

[seserakh]

well said!

[fangaili]

Yes.

[crowyhead]

Having a black president is definitely not a non-issue to the young black kids at my library. They wanted to be old enough to vote so that they could vote for him. It's like something's opened up in them that was dormant before.

[taibak]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/opinion/23kristof.html?ref=opinion
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/opinion/11friedman.html?scp=2&sq=obama%20egypt&st=cse

Give those a read. Mess iah summed up the domestic impact better than I could and those make a good case for the international impact. Just the fact that the United States elected a black man named Barack Hussein Obama, who lived in Indonesia, and the son of a Muslim father has already caused a lot of people across the world to rethink their stereotypes of the U.S.

[taibak]

http://www.edutopia.org/election-day-teachable-moments