I can't speak for AA (though I'm pretty sure she didn't)--she is more than capable of speaking competently for herself--but there are a lot of folks who did vote for Obama because he 'just felt right to them.' And if we are all honest, he 'felt right' to to a lot of them because he was black.
So going back to the OP and Healthmyths wondering if even having the question of the people's race in that news story cross his mind might make him racist--a very honest question--I might add that Obama initially 'felt more right' to me than Hillary did in the early going in that election. He made a great first impression and was saying a lot of all the right things.
In the end, however, though I didn't intend to vote for either one in the general election, I was hoping Hillary won the primary. I had a good sense of the track record with her and, after fully researching Barack Obama's track record, my 'gut' told me she was the less dangerous of the two.
And I am damn sure that had nothing to do with the race or gender of either.
I will say however, that I didn't want us to elect a BLACK president--one that we would have to be constantly conscious of and defer to as a black man. I had no problem with electing a man or woman who happened to be black. Does that make me racist?
So going back to the OP and Healthmyths wondering if even having the question of the people's race in that news story cross his mind might make him racist--a very honest question--I might add that Obama initially 'felt more right' to me than Hillary did in the early going in that election. He made a great first impression and was saying a lot of all the right things.
In the end, however, though I didn't intend to vote for either one in the general election, I was hoping Hillary won the primary. I had a good sense of the track record with her and, after fully researching Barack Obama's track record, my 'gut' told me she was the less dangerous of the two.
And I am damn sure that had nothing to do with the race or gender of either.
I will say however, that I didn't want us to elect a BLACK president--one that we would have to be constantly conscious of and defer to as a black man. I had no problem with electing a man or woman who happened to be black. Does that make me racist?
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