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I'm not the typical white person (female) either. I grew up in the inner-city of Rochester, NY, went to a racially mixed highschool in the early 60's, and have worked with and for many black people over the years. I spent many years researching the black Civil War units from Massachusetts, tracked down family members of the enlisted men, and still correspond with those I've met over the years.

I don't see color or ethnic background when I meet people. That's never been an issue with me. Thus, I never viewed Obama as being of any color. It wasn't the color of his skin that turned me off, it was his political beliefs. When he started making excuses for Rev. Wright's comments, telling us we needed to understand Wright's animosity stemmed from the inequities of the past, and that those same inequitities that stirred the good Reverend on, really weren't all in the past, I began to see him in a different light. He was the one who decided to delineate himself as being black and being different. When he stepped away from just being an American, to being a black man, and lecturing us on race, how white behavior towards blacks is predictable, and how racism is still rampant in this country and needs to be addressed, he proved to me that he's the one who has the racial problem, not me.

Mass55th,

Thanks for your thoughts. This is exactly Obama’s problem now. He was viewed as being nonracial: simply an American with a deep tan. Now he is revealed as the acolyte of a racist America-hater.

Mass55th, That was so good I decided to use it on my blog. HERE