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Our country has become so immature a black president is no longer a president, he’s a race. Any criticism of a black president is consistently portrayed as wholesale criticism of a race. Question a policy - that’s racist. Question members of the administration - that’s racist. Question Obamacare - that’s racist. Impeach Obama - that’s racist. For six-year olds, all they’ve heard all their lives is non-blacks are racist.

Following Obama with West won’t help. West isn’t a liberal and he isn’t a Dem, so in the current political environment, as President, he will be as vilified as Bush within those communities. I wouldn’t wish that on him in a million years. Stick him in as VP where he’s at least insulated somewhat. Until certain elements in our country are mature enough to accept a black man -as a man- and not as a race, be it West or someone else, and to accept the white man - as a man - and not as a race, we would do better not to perpetuate the immaturity and resultant hostility generated down to the masses that is building to a crescendo.

no, I would not want Allen West as president. It’s not what’s wrong with me, it’s not what’s wrong with Allen West being an African-American or even Obama being a black man - it’s what’s wrong with the country. [...]

Following Obama with West won’t help. West isn’t a liberal and he isn’t a Dem, so in the current political environment, as President, he will be as vilified as Bush within those communities. I wouldn’t wish that on him in a million years. Stick him in as VP where he’s at least insulated somewhat.

Wow, I could not disagree with you more. You are basically saying that a black person should not become president because the country has become too immature to handle it.

This is lowest denominator, plantation style thinking at its worst. DIMS do this, not us!

"We can't have black managers at this company. Employees can't handle a black person as their boss. They could be assistant managers, though."

"We can't have blacks sitting just anywhere on the bus. It makes bus drivers and passengers uncomfortable. They can sit in the back, though."

This is how your argument sounds. And its deplorable. If a man or woman is qualified and has the temperament for a position of power, by God they are qualified no matter what their race is. Period, end of story.