Read the speech
Just a note this morning to recommend reading the full text of Barak Obama's speech on race in Philadelphia this morning. (www.nytimes.com has it). Whether or not you plan to vote for him, it's well worth checking out.
It reminded me of something I have been saying for years: that we ought to stop using the Census to divide us by race and let it simply count us and categorize us by income. We would then find out that more of us are in the same boat than we ever thought. I always hate it when I see headlines like: "Whites no longer majority in U.S." whenever some new census report comes out.
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"I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible," he said.
"It's a story that hasn't made me the most conventional candidate. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that . . ."
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Uh, no other country has multiracial people, or what?
Are we comfy with the mystical idea that better political ideas are "seared" only into the "genetic makeup" of SOME folks, and not others?
If some all-"white" guy were suggesting a mystical right to rule the world based on his "genetic makeup", we'd be a little NERVOUS, wouldn't we??
Posted by: @T | March 18, 2008 12:16 PM