Hard to Make this stuff up...........

[DJD]

And Tim T I'll agree with you on this one. How does someone who is half black half white automatically become the first black person ever elected? Isn't he just as much white as he is black by default? I'll never understand that. And what happens when a black man with two black parents gets elected president? Will there be a debate over who really was the first black person elected?

The same reason Tiger Woods is the first black man in a white sport (heard that too many times on t.v. and radio to claim that one). The half of him that is Asian is cast aside by most people, why? It doesn't fit into that government, corporate or social box that they want anyone with black skin to be in. There is a HUGE guilt trip on this country in favor of anyone who is black or has black skin. Happens everyday.

Yep if a black man from black parents ever gets into office Barry will be cast aside as a stepping stone that allowed the frist "true" black man in office. Think about something else that's just as stupid....Clinton was billed by many as the first black president? So it will be Clinton, Barry and then whoever?

I will say this and that is Barry should be 100% accepted by the blacks in this country because he is the first black skinned man who is living proof that you can be what you want to be. Take away all the politics and I can say I'm proud that we as a country can hit this milestone.(I just don't like his political views or background). Sad to say but Jesse Jackson and anyone of his cronies have tried to use hate and racism to keep their voice alive for how many years? Maybe that's another plus from Barry being the Pres. elect....J.J. will go away and take Al Sharpton and Louis F. with ya!!

[pontooner]

I don't buy that for a second. Here in rural Western Ky, racism is not even close to being extinct. I heard it daily leading up to the election - "there is no way I can vote for a ......." so they pulled the lever for McCain. I just bite my tongue and go on. Some people are just ignorant and stuck in the past. So to think racism against blacks is a thing of the past is wrong - ignoring and denying the problem doesn't make it go away. I am sure plenty of whites threw their vote McCains way based on race.

Col your wasting your time trying to explain this to them. I threw percentages after percentages at them to show how off base it was and it just goes in one ear and out the other but here I'll try again.

The black vote has always went to the Democratic ticket, I also realize why but now the black democratic vote going for Obama is being deemed as racist because he is black.

Exit polls for this elction show Obama received 95% of the black vote and 43% of the white vote, while in 2004 John Kerry received 88% of the black vote and 41% of the white vote. That is a 7% increase from 2004 so it would only take a few out of a hundred of the white vote to be cast against him because he's black to almost balance things out.

Also the numbers break down like this.

In 2004 77% of the total voters were white and 11% was African American.

In 2008 74% of the total voters were white and 13% was African American.

Links to the polling data

2004
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pag.../epolls.0.html

2008
http://abcnews.go.com/pollingunit/exitpolls