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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45
If we believe that we can get rid of negative race relations or racism all together in America by voting for Obama, we will do nothing more than shift our focus from the real problems and most likely regress in this area.
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Did you catch the part where when Obama was born, interracial marriages were still completely illegal in 16 states? And now not even one generation later, a biracial man has a good chance of being elected president. (Do you imagine, by comparison, that even if gay civil unions were completely legalized across the country today, America would really be ready for a gay president in another 45 years?)
No, obviously all racial tensions will not magically disappear through a single election, but I don't know anyone who thinks they will. Certainly no one has implied it in this thread, and neither did the two articles quoted. I think you greatly underestimate how much progress has been made in this country, and greatly
overestimate what degree of "regression" is really likely in this day and age. Even Reverend Wright doesn't raise the call for black people to refuse to marry whites.