Incase you forgot the elections are only 2 weeks away.
It's all very exciting. If for no other reason then because this 8 month spectacle will be over.
Some people are really encouraged to see that a black man will very likely be our next president. I'm not though.
Why? Because I don't think it actually shows anything about this country moving away from it's racism.
About 3 months ago I received a mass e-mail "warning" me that Obama is an Arab. Which for some reason means that he has terrorist roots. And then a few days ago a women at a mcCain rally expressed that she couldn't trust him because he was an Arab.
Now I understand that most people don't think or believe these things, that they know they are crazy ignorance. The real things that steals my excitement for a country devoid of popular racism are people's reaction to these.
They retort with an assurance that he is not. That he is for sure a Christian and an American. Or as McCain replies to that women, that he's "a decent family man citizen." When people's real reaction should be...
WHO THE HELL CARES IF HE IS OR ISN'T!!
The fact that there is so much fear of people of Arab decent, that Obama's ethnicity should even have to be defended, that it isn't exposed as pure ignorant idiocy that him being an Arab would mean he's any less of a man or candidate, shows the racism that still exists.
Before we are Americans we are still human. Still broken fallen beings ruled by our fears, judging in our ignorance and having a long way to go.
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