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[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

adder is dumb, so forget how and why he said it-

my suburb voted for a "human rights ordinance" that extended rights to protect "sexual orientation" discrimination. everywhere should support such things, but everywhere does not. I'm proud my little burb did.

and a muslim congressman today says something about the district. it shouldn't but it does.

and obama getting elected says something about this country. put tea partiers aside, this country elected a mixed race guy. it surely doesn't mean we are "post racism" but it was a damn proud moment for me as to the overall make up of this country.

I was in Austria the summer of '09. the people we were with wanting to talk about the election- and the moment that had stuck in their minds was that news clip where someone is talking to a lady through the screen door, and asks who the family is voting for- she yells into the house "Jim, he wants to know who we're voting for."

Jim yells back "we're voting for the n-----."

so to these European people it showed how backward the mass of this country is- but the guy (and it might have been contrived video but let's assume he was real) got past his biases enough to give obama the keys to the country. it says something.

and I wanted to ask the austrian guy how many non-white people have ran Austria or germany or France or the UK. you know? it shouldn't matter at this point but anyone who says it doesn't is lying, because 75% or reaction to obama has to do with his race.

What he said.

TM