The 11th hour

[scholle-kid]

I figure we will never know just how many people voted for color of skin without a thought to abilities or policies. In another forum a poster said 'Just think if all goes the way it should black kids will for the first time in history see a black presidents picture on the wall in their classrooms.
I ask her if she had voted for color of skin or because she felt he was the better of the 2 choices to lead our nation and make right and just desisions for our citizens and the nation ? she said ' "I voted for the color of his skin"
The ramifications of this is just to sad . All the years and tears and pain of racism that this nation has been through is all meaningless and for nothing . I don't mean to sound like I believe Mc caain is a better choice.
because this post is not about the voters voting for the best choice ,this post is about voters that voted the way they did for the wrong reasons. If people were angry and concerned 50 years ago about what affect social conditions of that time had on the children both white and black. Just what affect will this have on the children of today? I don't know any more than the next American does who will be in the white hpuse for the next 4 to 8 years at this moment, and like all Americans hope with all I have that who ever it is will do his best for our nation and our citizens.

[spot]

You've a country that's never once put up a black democrat or republican candidate for president before, a country that's bludgeoned people for centuries on the sole basis of race, finally for the first time ever this underclass can express solidarity and look forward to a small measure of vindication and you say oh no, don't do that, elections aren't about race, play fair?

You have to be kidding.

[scholle-kid]

Originally Posted by spot

You've a country that's never once put up a black democrat or republican candidate for president before, a country that's bludgeoned people for centuries on the sole basis of race, finally for the first time ever this underclass can express solidarity and look forward to a small measure of vindication and you say oh no, don't do that, elections aren't about race, play fair?

You have to be kidding.

I don't mean to sound like I believe Mc caain is a better choice.
because this post is not about the voters voting for the best choice ,this post is about voters that voted the way they did for the wrong reasons.

If that black woman in that other forum had not said skin color was the only reason for voteing the way she did I never would have thuoght of this, and I posted it before the polls closed so it can not be said I am just angry that 'my guy did not win

[scholle-kid]

in the thread i am talking about this woman stated that it was just so many years ago that blacks were not allowed the vote. and it came up that it was not very many years before that , that a female no matter what her color was not allowed to vote

How would you feel if 'vindication ' became the leader of your country?

[scholle-kid]

The USA has a lot to answer for when it comes to some of our citizens and the treatment of those citizens .

but your country has a lot to answer for to just about every country that is in Europe and the surrounding areas so lets keep this in propective huh ?

[spot]

It's what we've got at the moment, a generation that can't stomach the loadsamoney free-for-all of Margaret Thatcher. Detestation of that woman counts for at least fifty government seats each time we have an election.

[spot]

Originally Posted by scholle-kid

but your country has a lot to answer for to just about every country that is in Europe and the surrounding areas so lets keep this in propective huh ?

I beg your pardon?

Who stopped Napoleon from uniting Europe in 1810?

What part of Europe has any reason to do anything but thank Great Britain for its many services?

[scholle-kid]

the Irish, The Scottish, Africa's natural resources (daimond mines) , the Aussie's, there are so many countries that have felt the 'benefits of Great Britain services.

[LilacDragon]

As I sit here and listen to the news reports, I just want to cry. As a white American, if I said that I voted for a candidate because of the color of their skin, I would be vilified and cursed as a racist. Yet I listen to person after person go on about what a great day it is for African Americans, how "we" are living Martin Luther King, Jr's dream, and how when the numbers from the districts in the different states come in with a majority of African American voters Obama's numbers will skyrocket.

I listen to the political pundents talk about how, in cities and counties that are a majority African American and have long histories of low voter turn-outs, the voter registrations are through the roof and attendence is higher then it has ever been.
One really must wonder if it is about the economy and the issues or that there is an African American candidate?

It isn't supposed to be about skin color. It is supposed to be about the issues. I pray that all these people who are voting because of skin color instead of issues are right.

[scholle-kid]

Before this thread gets high jacked and gets so far off topic it can't come back,
As an American white woman I posted this thread because to my way of thinking it is a very important issues to the USA.

If a thread was posted about who has the dirtest laundry to air Great Briton or the USA I promise I will be there with bells on . Because before my people were Americans . they were native Irishmen