Question: Is Obama really the post-racial candidate?
Wyclef Jean: I think that when people look at Obama, they have to stop saying, “Okay, it’s a race,” you know what I mean? Because what happens is when you look at Obama, he’s a man. So it’s like when you look at someone, you gotta get, you know, past the level. Like, look at the debates. He’s an educated man. He has the gift of speaking to people. He has the gift of going anywhere around the world and actually being in a room with someone and looking at them in the eyes and having a conversation. What I love most about Obama -- and this is why you all gotta get past this whole race shit, period, Clef said so. What I love most about Obama is Obama says, “We gotta get off this high horse that we on and start to deal with things direct.” And I think to move forward as a race and as people, we have to start doing that.
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Larry K. on April 4, 2008, 2:35 PM
For there to be a legitimately post-racial candidate, we'd have to honestly be able to say we were living in a post-racial America.
The fact that we have to ask whether Obama is post-racial means that he clearly is not. And this has nothing to do with him one way or the other. It's got to do with us, and our media.
Consider the following:
Just about all of Obama's negatives, besides a lack of experience, have centered around race. There is his inability to reach white working class voters, coupled with the Rev. Wright issue that have made it clear for me.
Is America ready for a Black President? Maybe.
A post racial candidate? Never, ever.
We've got a post racial candidate when nobody mentions his race. That will never happen.
Larry K. on April 4, 2008, 6:35 PM
For there to be a legitimately post-racial candidate, we’d have to honestly be able to say we were living in a post-racial America.
The fact that we have to ask whether Obama is post-racial means that he clearly is not. And this has nothing to do with him one way or the other. It’s got to do with us, and our media.
Consider the following:
Just about all of Obama’s negatives, besides a lack of experience, have centered around race. There is his inability to reach white working class voters, coupled with the Rev. Wright issue that have made it clear for me.
Is America ready for a Black President? Maybe.
A post racial candidate? Never, ever.
We’ve got a post racial candidate when nobody mentions his race. That will never happen.
timothy moriarty on September 30, 2008, 5:30 AM
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James Nordhoff on November 30, 2008, 9:58 AM
Face it. Obama won Racists lost, racists are ignorant and unorganized. Sub human, really.
Racists are really no better than terrorists, don’t you agree? If they use violence to get their way, then they ARE terrorists. Perhaps we could all grow up a little and solve some problems, now. Bush/Cheney have left quite a mess to clean up. Worse than anything Al Quaida have done to the world. They will all pay for their short sighted greedy and violent ways.
The majority have spoken.. Let’s get to work!!
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