I disagree:
“I think we need to take our experience of pain and use it to empathize in a profound way with those for whom this election was a moment of healing, a moment of triumph, a moment when the promise of America seemed etched in gold. We need to empathize with those whose tears of gratitude streamed down their face that they lived to see the day that a black man was elected president. That is not nothing. It is, in fact, a great thing.”
This election was NOT about healing, triumph, or a promise etched in gold. This election was not “a great thing.”
Obama is the most liberal, extreme abortion-supporter possible. No one should be proud of him. I am a woman, and I would not have happy tears streaming down my face if pro-abortion Hillary was elected. It would not be a moment of healing or triumph for me to see the first woman elected to the highest office, if that woman were for the killing of the unborn.
I see your point, but I still think she is trying to make the best of an admittedly horrible election.
Different perspectives, and I’m usually looking for the good in things/people, and tend to give the benefit of the doubt.
Pollyannish? Not really, I’m just of a sunny outlook most of the time.
“To them, the election of Barack Obama, self-identified as one of them, is a shining beacon of hope.....the election of Barack Obama is historic in racial terms and positive when considered in that light.
.....I think we need to take our experience of pain and use it to empathize in a profound way with those for whom this election was a moment of healing, a moment of triumph, a moment when the promise of America seemed etched in gold. That is not nothing. It is, in fact, a great thing.”
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There was a Freeper that said something like “the only good thing about Obama is the color of his skin”. I would agree with that. His attitudes towards whites, this country, etc. are horribly wrong.
In the excerpt above, although she does not say it, what I got out of it is that those who have fought so long against abortion and other liberal ideas can empathize with these folks who have fought so hard for their cause of racial equality but never quite made it, until now. (In my mind it happened long ago, and perhaps reared its ugly head in my community more now due to Obama’s campaign - sad really.)
Not that a President Obama will be the defining moment of racial equality in their minds, but one large step. (Reparation money I’m sure would go a ways in further “creating equality”).
But I digress.
The thing that I take away is that if I can empathize in their joy (just a little), I can also see that some day down the road there might be a day when abortion and communism isn’t the law of the land. Some day, after these Dark Years (TM) have passed.
Also as I share their joy (a little), I can look a bit deeper into how they gained their status, and how to combat now so we can make some inroads in two years.
Her point is that for many it was. You can call them stupid but at least I can understand a black Protestant in Detroit voting for Obama but I definitely cannot understand a white Catholic in the suburbs.
Well said. AMEN!