Finally we have elected a new president. Is it time to start campaigning again? My favorite comic, XKCD summed it up best:
I’m already disappointed in the way the public has reacted to his election. I grew up in a world where the color of your skin means very little. From a legal standpoint it means nothing at all. I’m depressed by the notion that people voted or didn’t vote for him simply because he’s black. He’s just as black as he is white. If you want to play stereotypes, he went to two Ivy League schools, has a law degree, and worked as a professor, sounds damned white to me. He’s as white as a black guy can get, and yet the color of his skin remains important. I’m sorry, but to me this is simply unimportant. The color of MLK Jr’s skin is important, the color of Malcom X’s skin is important, Obama is just simply the guy we elected to president.
In other news, as I announced this week, I am officially engaged to The Sheconomist. I guess that will make her The Sheconomist Weakonomist upon our nuptials. That will make for an interesting driver’s license. We have agreed that our marriage will start debt-free, so my primary goal remains to pay off my outstanding debts. This won’t be a problem, but it’s good to put down your goals in writing so you feel more obligated to stick to them.
Speaking of The Sheconomist, I’m sure she’d rather me spend the day with her than writing for you, so that’s what I’ll do. I’m sure she’d want you to do something else than read my blog too, so get out of here!
Thanks for reading as always!
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ahhh, xkcd. always so, so good.
as for the rest of it..
while i have a tendency to want to agree with you on the whole skin color thing, i’m kind of surprised at your surprise. i mean, you’re in the SOUTH, right? ever hear of a little gem called the one-drop rule? i love the idea of someone being ‘just as white as they are black’ but i mean seriously, that doesn’t work in life, ever. definitely not in this country. trust me. i’m a mutt too.
of course this is an issue. yeah, it’s stupid. yeah, it’s ignorant. yeah, it’s sad. whatever. the way i look at it, the civil rights movement was relatively recent – those people simply aren’t all dead yet. what’s more, they raised their kids to be like them in these important respects. these things take time to work themselves out of society, generations. these are deep-seeded issues, they don’t just go away (no matter how much we may want them to).
why do you think we still have a kkk? and profiling? come on weakonomist, you know these things still matter to some people. while their numbers are dwindling, they absolutely still exist.
i’m scared to death of mississippi.
i’ve had some close and disturbing calls, many of them in north carolina, and i didn’t grow up in the sticks. it happens.
it does annoy me how everyone’s been talking about how ‘great’ mccain’s concession speech was, when, to me, it seemed lopsided and kinda effed up; it felt like all he was talking about was the fact that obama was black, not so much that he was a formidable opponent as a MAN. but you know, john mccain gives crappy speeches. and he’s old as all hell, so i guess this shouldn’t really be a surprise. i just didn’t think it was good.
i’ve been saying for most of my life/since i started really paying attention to politics that we as country weren’t ready for a female president, let alone a black one. i honestly never though i’d see it in my lifetime. i’m less than 30.
i think a lot of people were apprehensive about the race thing because, even though it really wasn’t brought up, we just didn’t think it was possible. i mean, can we just take a moment to applaud the fact that we elected a black man to our highest office only 40ish years after the height of the civil rights movement?
personally, i find it pretty miraculous, and i’m proud of us.
progress takes time.