
The political hegemony of people of European descent in
Technicalities aside, Mr. Obama’s nomination marks the farthest a “black” person has gone up the symbolic power structure of
This is the same
Enough with the parades, though…
No matter what you feel about politics, this marks a change in the objective history of the racial power struggle . White people have been giving us shit all our lives about how we are lazy and stupid, how our cultures are “primitive”, and continue to degrade all people of color as if we aren’t human. Even though not all white people are explicitly racist, all white people benefit from the inhumane acts that have been perpetrated against truly innocent, good people worldwide whose only crime was not having white skin.
As we see from worldwide protests against Bush, the president of the
The ‘race’ now is for the votes of the American people, as opposed to non-white people facing violent opposition to being respected as citizens.
No matter what happens from this point on, we have clear evidence that this long standing idea of racial superiority or inferiority in society is a myth…a fucking myth! Wake up! WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FREE!
Black is not just beautiful…it’s American, it’s human, and today it’s
Barack Obama.
Barack Obama.

1 comments:
This is a very emphatic piece. Your point is well highlighted by the use of variety in fonts, color, bolds/italics/underlining, and the interspersed all caps. Some commentaries tend to fall flat, but you really take the reader on the emotional rollercoaster with you, between the historical allusions, deeply sentimental pulls, and the well-crafted pedagogy. This is quite a dark & strong piece.
I am especially impressed by your use of Analytics.
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