http://shanelife.com/2008/03/18/obamas-a-perfect-union/ Shane Adams' personal blog about life, movies, TV, music, spirituality, pop culture, poker, and tasty burritos Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:09:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://shanelife.com/2008/03/18/obamas-a-perfect-union/comment-page-1/#comment-8680 KC Sponge Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:24:19 +0000 http://topfivedesign.com/shane/2008/03/18/obamas-a-perfect-union/#comment-8680 Okay, yeah, if Obama wasn't in the race, E, it wouldn't be at the forefront. We wouldn't be talking about theology that has been around for ages, but ignored because it doesn't show up in our church, we wouldn't be talking frankly about the overt racism of many and the private prejudice of us all, we wouldn't be on the brink of hailing a man as our commander in chief who just 50 years ago many of us denied people who looked like him access to our diners and equated to a chimpanzee, and who just 150 years ago could have been traded like a cow and treated like a dog. Thank you, Barack, for being black and making us talk about race as a nation - not behind closed doors and not filtered through political correctness. Thank you, Barack, for being black and showing us what progress really means - for the aspirations of us all and the country as a whole. Okay, yeah, if Obama wasn’t in the race, E, it wouldn’t be at the forefront. We wouldn’t be talking about theology that has been around for ages, but ignored because it doesn’t show up in our church, we wouldn’t be talking frankly about the overt racism of many and the private prejudice of us all, we wouldn’t be on the brink of hailing a man as our commander in chief who just 50 years ago many of us denied people who looked like him access to our diners and equated to a chimpanzee, and who just 150 years ago could have been traded like a cow and treated like a dog. Thank you, Barack, for being black and making us talk about race as a nation – not behind closed doors and not filtered through political correctness. Thank you, Barack, for being black and showing us what progress really means – for the aspirations of us all and the country as a whole.

]]> http://shanelife.com/2008/03/18/obamas-a-perfect-union/comment-page-1/#comment-8658 E Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:58:10 +0000 http://topfivedesign.com/shane/2008/03/18/obamas-a-perfect-union/#comment-8658 This campaign was never about race. Now it is thanks to Obama! This campaign was never about race. Now it is thanks to Obama!

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