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Old 08-09-2004, 09:50 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Steeltrap
Yet some political analysts have wondered whether white voters don't also find him attractive because, while he is black, he is not the direct product of generations of black life in America: he is not black in the usual way.
I feel what the original author is saying here, but somewhere in the back of my squirrelly little brain, this reads like "there are black people, and there are (insert N-word)." I admit it's a stretch, but it's the same argument that people -- bigoted people -- use to talk about the differences between black immigrants and black Americans.
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