Originally posted by punknaynowned
more opinion please!
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My sister-in-law asked what I thought of Obama, back in May. Things like, if he would act like a representative say, of 'black' interests more than in
the interest of the country [that's not how she said it but what she meant].
So in an email titled 'How the zebra got his stripes' I told her (who directs a daycare of 60 kids) what I thought.
I see Obama as a yuppie
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but because he's a 'person of color' I see him as more experienced in seeing things from the other guys point of view, whoever that is. He may not
agree with that point of view, but can at least see it from the other guys view. I think THIS is why blacks and hispanics and whites and asians and
different age groups have accepted, heck, embraced Obama as their candidate.
With a learned (often re-learned) understanding that the 'other' is me and I am the 'other', 'we the people' can move forward.
When we're born we see it like that. Little kids of every race can play together and everything is fine. Oftentimes the world will teach us these
differences between people and then we have to unlearn it or learn that individuals make their own choices, say, and that sometimes terribly. But
that it's a mistake to, simply put, 'judge a book by it's cover'. Even ofttimes of what they say or the words out of their mouths . . .
more opinion please! |