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Obama Inauguration (watch live here) (pg. 8)
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
After watching more coverage of the events today, I still can't believe how people, including those in this thread, can brush aside what this seems to mean for Americans, particularly African Americans. Who is anyone - particularly someone from another country - to diminish the hope and excitement that this guy has brought to the american people. Who is anyone to dismiss the significance of America's first black president, when not too long ago, the constitution that he took an oath to protect said that blacks were only considered to be 3/5ths of a person? It is just so mind boggling ignorant, I can't get my head around how people can see it as meaning nothing at all, particularly when it means so much to so many other people. |
It would have been a bigger leap and more historical if they elected a gay person as president....at least blacks have all the same rights as everyone else.
edit: I am glad americans have a new found hope....I just hope its not a misguided hope. I've heard a lot of people talking non-sense about how he is a saint and how he is bringing the human race together. He is nothing more then the president....he doesn't have special powers. |
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| exstasie |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
It would have been a bigger leap and more historical if they elected a gay person as president....at least blacks have all the same rights as everyone else.
edit: I am glad americans have a new found hope....I just hope its not a misguided hope. I've heard a lot of people talking non-sense about how he is a saint and how he is bringing the human race together. He is nothing more then the president....he doesn't have special powers. |
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| Yohan |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
It's not as though there haven't been plenty of blacks in the white house already. Yeah, he's actually president and that's different, but I don't see that as being some massive leap into the future for America, more like proof positive that the "systemic racism" that the hard left so desperately wants to believe in doesn't really exist.
...Unless you want to argue that that people voted for him partly because he was black, because they desperately wanted there to be a black president, which is kind of a step back. |
exactly. black americans have been in the top echelon of american society today. doctors, generals, lawyers whatever.
so obama being a president i see more of a milestone than a historic moment. and does this mean the english/irish americans get to celebrate another dude of their racial heritage getting elected too? (from his mom side) |
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| Orko |
| you Digi :whip: :whip: |
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| T_ALI |
I think its great. I just hope he doesn't crumble under all that pressure.
Also, I don't think people elected him because he's black. They elected him because they think he could be a way better leader than McCain/Bush. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
you Digi :whip: :whip: |
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| Skipper |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sasha
it sounds like you are more concerned about the recognition of African-Americans, than about the wealth-being of the continent |
About the what? |
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| Skipper |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yohan
exactly. black americans have been in the top echelon of american society today. doctors, generals, lawyers whatever.
so obama being a president i see more of a milestone than a historic moment. and does this mean the english/irish americans get to celebrate another dude of their racial heritage getting elected too? (from his mom side) |
Erm...key difference being the president is voted in through a democratic process of every adult in america. |
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| ÖZmözis |
| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
Erm...key difference being the president is voted in through a democratic process of every adult in america. |
What about the adults that voted against Obama because they actually believed he was a terrorist and was working with them lol |
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| dEsidEL |
| quote: | Originally posted by eRRaTiK
"accepted", IMO ;)
Black or not, getting Bush out of office is significant. Not just for the US.
To the commentator that said "who gives a $hit bout US politics!" (not in those words exactly but close enough)... news flash... what happens in the US inevitably affects the country you're in. |
retired? rubbish!
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| Yohan |
| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
Erm...key difference being the president is voted in through a democratic process of every adult in america. |
minority congressman, senators, governors all got elected before
it was matter of time before a black president.
heck, for all we know, we could be 'celebrating' election of female president right now
milestones for sure. historical? maybe as a footnote |
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| infinity HiGH |
| You people honestly think that there weren't any group that voted for him JUST because he's black (technically half, but who cares right?)? Or to put it another way: it wasn't an old white guy running? |
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