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.