Another side effect has been white people contacting me to say that I should be proud to see a black man become president. Could there be a comment that is more condescending, more insulting, than that? If I believed that in America a black man could not be president, then I would be proud to see any black man elected president. But because I always have believed that nothing in America prevents a black man from becoming president or anything else he wants to be, I can be embarrassed, not proud, to see someone as unqualified and inexperienced as Obama become president.
Friday, December 05, 2008
Quote of the Day
From the St. Louis Today website an article titled, "A plan to survive the Obama years" by Z. Dwight Billingsly gives a wonderful quote about why not every black person should or will be proud of what happened in Nov. 2008:
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