1911 United: Re-elect President Obama

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

And by the way, people vote for president because he's "like me" all the time. What was this crap about voting for Bush because you could drink a beer with him? If a bunch of educated successful professional black guys (and gals of course) want to vote for President Obama because he's like them, what's the problem?

The difference is that never before has there been an option to choose a candidate primarily based on racial and ethnic similarity. All of the other competitive presidential candidates and presidents were white so whites would be choosing someone of the same race regardless of who they liked. Whiteness is often considered invisible so, although whites have a race and ethnicity, the average white person would neither admit to choosing presidential hopefuls based on race nor admit to making sure there is no support for certain presidential hopefuls based on race.

The same goes for when there is a woman as president...if ever. There will understandably be the excitement of voting for a woman and, for some women, it will take a total failure of a president who is a woman to make many women betray the womanhood selection. But, I know that it would take something as minute as a mosquito at the White House to piss voters off enough to criticize and not want to re-elect a woman, racial and ethnic minority, openly homosexual, (insert other power minority group) president.

People can tolerate a whoooooooooole lot from white men but only from white men. People unfortunately called George W. Bush an idiot but they did not turn against white men as presidents (and white men, in general) because of him. And regardless of what people consciously claim because they do not want to be labeled as racist, there are a lot of Americans who think North America's attempt at presidential diversity and "giving Blacks a chance to run the country" has failed if President Obama has failed. There will be no second chance any time soon if whites as the majority decide President Obama needs to sit his LightskinnededBlackass down. (President Obama's conveniently considered biracial with a white mother when white people like him but when white people dislike him he's Black, with a Black family, and he is just like any other Black man who plays basketball LOL)

I am a bit amused that this thread turned into a discussion of this, thanks to Psi U MC Vito.