Posted on 11/30/2008 6:04:19 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
The Associated Press is worried that Americans might accidentally imagine that the elevation of Barack Obama to the presidency could make people think that blacks in America really can get ahead. The AP is so worried that it sought out a race hustler to deny that blacks can make it here no matter what happened on November 4.
As the AP reports it, apparently young Kari Fulton "cringed" when Barack Obama won the past election. She "cringed" because she heard a white guy say that Obama's election put a dent in the charge of racism in America. And why did she "cringe"? Why, it's because "racism is still very much alive and well" she told the AP.
And how does young Kari know this? At 23 she never lived through Jim Crow. She doesn't remember the days when there were few blacks on TV and blacks in music were segregated to separate genres, not mixing with white singers. She wasn't around when black CEOs didn't exist and no blacks roamed the halls of Congress or the White House without pushing a broom. So, how does this 23-year-old girl know that "racism is alive and well"? Because she is a black activist, that's why..
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
And he ain’t covering his crotch.
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