....”The United States, they have argued, is finally prepared to elect a black president and absolve its historic sins of slavery and Jim Crow.”
....that’s how a lot of self hating whites see it....they figure a vote for Obama is absolution for their whiteness....I wish I could tell them what happened in ‘84 when Charlotte voters put an inexperianced black man in the mayor’s office....his true colors finally came out when he flipped a minority carve-out broadcast license.
The author of the article, a Brit, pretty much states that it’s about time America performs a mea culpa for once being a slave-owning country, and elect a black man.
Well, Britain enslaved one hell of a lot more people than the United States ever did, and for a much longer period. And those slaves came in all colors. So, where is the first black Prime Minister of the UK? Where is the first Indian (as in the sub-continent) Prime Minister of the UK? Where is the first Pacific Islander Prime Minister of the UK? Where is the first native-born Irish Prime Minister of the UK?
Britain, thy name is hypocrisy.