By: Cincymom10

Cincymom10 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:52:54 +0000

A watershed moment? I tend to think that we are giving less credit to the advances in race relations over the past 30 years than they are due. My children, for example, are 12 and 10 and exhibit none of the racially charged notions common during my own childhood of the 60′s. In order to remain relevant, the definition of race now must be redefined, don’t you think? There were no hispanics on that dais. No women. No Asian Americans. If we are going to have a conversation on race in this country it can not be limited to one race – it should embrace all of them. Obama may very well lose this election – but to predict that loss is based on his race is to ignore the fact that he is now the leader of a major political party. To say that if America does not elect him it will be because he is black (a common “fear” expressed by many) is a troublesome argument – fraught with threatening undertones. It is divisive in and of itself. Perhaps it is time to move past the race statement and towards defining who this candidate is and how he will be an agent for change in a war torn America. Does he have the “stuff” to get us out of the mess we are in? Can he fix “broken politics” and, at the same time, be the leader of the free world, extricate us from an unpopular war, check Russian aggression, stem the tide of illegal immigration, and repair our beleaguered economy? Can he be an agent for renewing and repairing this country and still pretend to deny the political machine of which he is a part? I agree – it is time to move past this young man’s biracial heritage and towards how he will proceed to repair, rebuild and reenergize.

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By: Cincymom10