Posted on 11/25/2008 3:21:29 AM PST by NCDragon
WASHINGTON - The day after Barack Obama was elected president, Kari Fulton heard a white colleague proclaim that racism in America is dead.
She cringed, worrying that it might be a sign of flagging interest in the fight against discrimination.
"In reality, racism is still very much alive and well," said Fulton, who graduated last year from Howard University, a historically black college in the nation's capital.
Obama's election has generated palpable euphoria among black Americans. For some, the weight of history has finally been eased after generations of struggling for equality. But amid the postelection glow of racial harmony lurks a sobering fact: Racial disparities persist -- in just about every measurable form -- and they won't simply melt away because the nation has a black president.
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I knew this would happen, its only a matter of time before the “Black Movement” or whatever it goes by, starts saying that electing Barak doesn’t mean anything, because BO isn’t REALLY black, he’s only half black, and besides, he wasn’t raised in the hood... That it doesn’t count, same as it didn’t count when white people went to see Sidney Potier at the movies...
Because racism = $. C’mon, Sharpton needs his job.
Yup, thar’s gold in them thar Grievances!!!
It’s over for me. I don’t put up with the racism crap anymore. Blacks are more racist than whites, and until they start fixing that little problem, I don’t do the White Guilt thing. At all.
Glow of racial harmony????
I dunno...I am missing the glow thing....
There’s only one color that truly matters in this debate: green.
Everything will be better because we have the “magic negro”, is charge.
NO more black on black violence, no more hunger, no more disease, no more crack, no more heating bills, no more money to spend cause this govt. is gonna take it all.
0be’s not from da ‘hood. He’s clean and articulate.
Indeed, there is too much money to be made hating whitey.
Racism will end when all the white people are dead.
Then the work can shift to the Hutus.
Oh, yeah.
“Black” colleges are perfectly okay. In fact, they’re “historic.”
“White” colleges (if there were any, that is) would be racist, evil, the and subject of endless lawsuits.
All this election’s proved to me is that blacks are overwhelmingly racist, since the vast majority of them were willing to vote for The Obama without knowing anything else about him except the color of his skin.
“the and subject of endless lawsuits.” should be “AND THE subject of...”
Sorry. Dyslexic before coffee :-)...
Racism is alive and well because, well, ah, because we say it is.
That is a truism that way too many white people have yet to realize.
“who graduated last year from Howard University, a historically black college in the nation’s capital”
Howard student body is 80+% non-hispanic black. The faculty is about the same. The author’s opinions are suspect since his experience lacks diversity. Once again the little boy is crying “wolf”.
Racism will always remain in the hate-filled crainums of the (victims mindset). “From The Womb To The Tomb.”
Jesse and Al do not want to get in the soup line of the unemployed race hustlers and poverty nickel pimps.
“That Was Then, This Is Now,”
Respectfully,
NSNR-19
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