But there is something good to said in all this.
Many people who voted for Obama - and I’d put a majority of the non-black voters in this category - wanted to vote for Obama because it proved they weren’t racist, or they could brag that they elected a black guy as president.
We’re at a wonderful point in race relations. Finally, we can stand up and say that a man of African descent can be as big a fool, moron, and wastecase as any white guy anywhere else. (At least a guy of one-quarter African descent.... LOL) In any case, Obama is going to help those of us who like to carefully pick words and tiptoe around black people for fear of being called a racist, pick us up by our labels, and hear us shout, “You, sir, are an incompetent on par with James Buchanan and Jimmy Carter,” and feel no remorse whatsoever.
You want equality? Obama, you’re a schmuck like the schmucks of any race, ethicity, heritage, and nationality anywhere else on Earth. It’s not the equality you wanted, granted. But you’ve earned it.
I mean “lapels.” And “something good to be said in all this.” I need to spellcheck more often. LOL