"Does our voting pattern really represent the diversity among us in experiences, aspirations, values? Do we really want to give in to allowing racism to define us?
>I used to be on a messageboard where the resounding response will be YES or a bunch of longwinded responses that boiled down to YES.
Because today, if we do -- if we vote as victims rather than as individuals -- we only perpetuate our victimhood. We become the Democrats' mascots, instead of a force to be grappled with.
>It amazes me how the majority of my campus voted for Kerry. I probably would have too if I hadn't discovered FR in July :-(. I mean, they didn't even try to just share info on the candidates. We had a bulletin board set up for the candidates: Kerry good, Bush bad! It was pathetic. And it was so obvious that a good bit of them were only thinking that way b/c of what's been told to them. Which is why I relished when we won and they were all down like they lost a family member.
I would say that blacks are already the mascot.. More like Old Faithful.