Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
Who do you expect him to pick? Rice is good at playing the game of politics and got a good position.

Just wondering, since you are so passionate about this: Are you "Black", or a person of a different race that is an expert on racial issues?
Who do I expect him to pick? I honestly don't care. But since you asked... how many other names on his short list might have been black? Were they there because they were qualified or because W wanted to make Joe Six-pack feel like less of a racist? If the latter falls anywhere on their list of "pros" for a candidate, I take issue with that.

I've been thinking about this since I posted the first time, actually. I'm not black. I grew up in a family where race just wasn't an issue though. I guess you could say I grew up in kind of a fog as a result. I'm still surprised every now and then by what people will say about someone just because of their skin color. I'm even more surprised, though, by the number of people in the "majority" that are willing to just sit back and keep their mouths shut. Racism exists because it is allowed to fester, unchallenged.

I find myself passionate about the Condi issue because it's nothing more than a leaking bandaid. Regardless of how qualified she is, I feel she is there to make our society feel better. Just look at Torog. He's not a racist! He loves Condi! Yet, he still makes comments implying that she has reached a summit impassable by the rest of the black community. Then we have folks implying that if all blacks were more like Condi they would be better off. This "tongue-in-cheek" racism does just as much to thwart progress and I find it equally unacceptable.

With as inherently different as we all are it has to be lonely waiting for that whitewashed American utopia.

P.S Tholiak: Looks like someone put you back under your bridge. Finally.