Wednesday, November 05, 2008

 

Okay...no matter your politics, you have to admit that history was made last night. Is it the best thing for our country? Only time will tell.

But after a night's sleep and some reflection, there are some silver linings to last night's election:

1. In addition to locking Hillary out of the primary for 2012, this also holds the dem's feet to the fire. I'm sure that their performance will be no more successful than it has been the last two years, so there will be a voter backlash "demanding change" after another 2-4 years of inactivity.

2. Obama's ascendancy forever takes away the black's rallying cry that blacks are still marginalized and downtrodden in the US. A black man in the white house takes away all of their demands for "reparations" and cries of "disenfranchisement".

3. Also, Obama's seizure of the highest seat of power defuses the University of Delaware's assertion that all whites are racist by definition because they hold power, and that blacks by definition are incapable of racism because they hold no power. (The university's Office of Residence Life Diversity Education Training documents, includes the statement: "'The term [Racist] applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination…."--source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58426)

4. Finally, I truly hope that Obama's success will finally compel the black race in America to create an ethic among themselves to place value on education, mainstream success, assimilation into the broader American culture, regard for law, respect of marriage, and the responsibility of fathers to raise their children.

posted by huggy 5:55 PM