I have to give the guy credit, he seems to be able to fool the masses with ease.

I wonder if the MSM will finally challenge him?

“But the world is heading into a stressful situation [vanishing fossil fuels, us recession, global warming] that could provoke another wave of worldwide conflict… So, from my point of view, the further America removes itself explicitly from a collective racialist mentality, the better off we would be. But there is a catch: if perhaps Mr. Obama wins the Democratic Party’s nomination, and goes on to win the White House, and the nation enters the socioeconomic convulsions, and Mr. Obama is overwhelmed by its overwhelming problems… would he be singled out for blame? Surely there will be a lot of finger-pointing and scapegoating. Would Barack Obama become a tragic figure? The answer may be that anyone who occupies that office during the next term could end up a tragic figure.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fZHou18Cdk&feature=related

And, this is a racist country, founded on it, built by it and sustained in many ways by it. This don’t mean that everyone here hates dark people. You can’t found a nation on genocide and slavery and not have that show up few places you know. Our education system doesn’t help. Many people leave college with the notion that if you like Michael Jordan, you can’t be racist. It’s ridiculous know? Talking in generalities helps one sketch the broad outlines. And sure there is a group called white people, they’re the ones who get the cabs I can’t. But let’s be real here. If Obama becomes the president Frederick Douglass would have been if this were a just nation back then, I’ll happily vote for him during his 2nd term.

please accept my apology, Drapetomaniac, i thought i detected a bit of sarcasm in your post and responded in kind.

i have no issue with the substance or “actual claims” of your post. however, the language you elect to employ in articulating your position undermines your argument because it ignores the complexity of the issue. To make statements or assertions that begin “white people…” or “black people…” is to refer to an abstraction, a product of imagination, there is simply no homogeneous group that can be accurately, definitively characterized as such. To make the statement that this is a racist country, is yet another oversimplification. Racism exists, but it is the product of cultural conditioning, of inheritance, it is psychological, a function of paradigm, and can be transcended, uprooted. It exists in the “hearts and minds” of individuals. Racism may manifest institutionally, but only as a function of the influence of individuals upon the system that produced the institution.

You assert that you “want the revolution” as much as anybody, and that “history is with me on this”. I suggest you give some consideration to the nature of change as viewed through the lens of chaos theory. change is characterized by radical, fundamental shifts in complex systems. the approach to such “tipping points” is characterized by gradual progress followed by radical departure. i’m suspect of the value of “history” in evaluating where we are currently with respect to the prospects, the potential for radical transformation.

i respect your position and your perspective, and i appreciate the justifications you have present in support of your view point.