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Originally Posted by Kevin
Your 'different dynamics' are just justifications as why it's okay to vote for a person based on their skin pigmentation.
How is despising Obama or being afraid of him because he's black not the moral equivalent of supporting him simply because he's black?
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I think there is (or can be) a moral difference.
If we start from the assumption that both candidates are on the balance reasonably-equally qualified, I think there is a moral/ethical difference between
1) A white voter whose vote for the white candidate is prompted by the belief that a white will always make a better president than a black, or that he doesn't want to see a black president; and
2) A black voter whose vote for the black candidate is prompted not by the belief that a black will always make a better president than a white, but by the belief that the time is right to bring a perspective into the Oval Office that hasn't been there before and to move America a little further down the road.
It seems to me that the former is a refutation of the promise inherent in the Declaration of Independence ("that all men are created equal"), while the latter is an attempt to claim that promise.