Comments on: Racialist Passive-Aggressiveness http://www.kejda.net/2008/11/25/racialist-passive-aggressiveness/ her miscellaneous musings Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:12:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew Brehm http://www.kejda.net/2008/11/25/racialist-passive-aggressiveness/comment-page-1/#comment-2406 Andrew Brehm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:59:53 +0000 http://kejda.net/?p=593#comment-2406 The way I see it the first black President is not an achievement of Obama's but an achievement of the USA. I still don't regard it as anything special. The achievement is not so much the election but the fact that a black candidate could win against a white candidate. Had McCain won, the achievement would have been the same. It would just not have been obvious (that the black candidate could win). Voting Republican today means the same voting Republican meant in 1860: you are supporting the guy who (ideally) doesn't differentiate between black and white and would fight a war for the sake of freedom, despite (valid) criticism of fighting such a war and insistence that differences between the races must be recognised by the state. The way I see it the first black President is not an achievement of Obama’s but an achievement of the USA. I still don’t regard it as anything special. The achievement is not so much the election but the fact that a black candidate could win against a white candidate. Had McCain won, the achievement would have been the same. It would just not have been obvious (that the black candidate could win).

Voting Republican today means the same voting Republican meant in 1860: you are supporting the guy who (ideally) doesn’t differentiate between black and white and would fight a war for the sake of freedom, despite (valid) criticism of fighting such a war and insistence that differences between the races must be recognised by the state.

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