[originalbuckeye]

Well put. I heard someone on the radio suggest that if Obama were elected President it would heal our country’s deepest wound, that being slavery. I repeated this to a black co-worker and the look on her face told me that wouldn’t be the case. Will that wound ever heal? How many years of affirmative action will we need? Forever? What would it take for all Americans to be on an equal footing? I’m white, too, and I suspect you are right.

[arthurus]

That wound cannot be “healed” so long as it is useful for political and material gain, so long as non-blacks have any assets at all.

[Verginius Rufus]

White Americans won’t be let off the hook for slavery for a very long time, if ever. Obama’s only connection, other than through his marriage, with American slavery is to be descended through his mother from some white slaveowners.

[ottbmare]

I heard someone on the radio suggest that if Obama were elected President it would heal our country’s deepest wound, that being slavery. I repeated this to a black co-worker and the look on her face told me that wouldn’t be the case. Will that wound ever heal? How many years of affirmative action will we need? Forever? What would it take for all Americans to be on an equal footing? I’m white, too, and I suspect you are right.

Today I was listening to Washington's WMAL 630-AM radio, the local conservative station, and there was a discussion of Michelle Obama's ingratitude. The host asked a black caller if he would concede that if Obama was elected president, racism would effectively be over in America and no further complaints of racism would be merited. The caller said that No, Obama's election would not mean the end of complaints.

If Obama is not elected president, I fear there will be riots.