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'Obama Won't Be First Black President' Readers' Comments



September 03, 2008

DiversityInc readers had a lot to say about "Obama Won't Be First Black President."

Here are their unedited comments.

Posted: Monday, Nov 17, 2008
Obama Won't Be First Black President

 

Why is there such a big controversy and discrimination among the blacks and the whites?? After all, we are all humans...as stated before, black people are always depicted as the poor sector with great illiteracy and the cause of all the trouble in America...

 

I hope that the presidency of Obama will bring about a great change and uplift the standard of all the blacks around the world...

Shell Cresto

Posted: Monday, Nov 17, 2008
Obama Won't Be First Black President

 Great information.

Ernest Thomas

Posted: Sunday, Nov 16, 2008
Obama Won't Be First Black President

 I think we all forget that President-Elect Obama is a politician. Regardless of his race, ethnicity, religion, economic status, etc. we need to keep in mind that he is a politician first and foremost. The man was voted into office for his political leanings and not the color of his skin. He has made promises to the citizens of these United States just like every other politician that has been elected to office. If we were all blind (which we should be when it comes to voting) we would not realize that he may have a darker skin tone than we may do, but one thing is for certain - he needs to live up to his promises. They got him to the White House and he needs to prove to us that we were not wrong is sending him there. If he does not live up to those promises than he is a failed politician like so many in the past. Color should have nothing to do with the man that holds the most important job in the world, but integrity does. We need to stand behind our new president for what he stands for and not because he may happen to be the first "black" man elected to office (has everyone forgotten that his mother was white?).

J.R. Wheeless

Posted: Sunday, Nov 16, 2008
Obama Won't Be First Black President

 Everyone wants to just wipe the slate clean and call everyone Americans without atonement for the racially based sins of this country.  

Reconciliation starts with the US government, acting on behalf of its populus issuing a sincere and meaningful apology for enslaving stolen, bought and otherwise procured Africans and their progeny.  

Decent people apologize for their wrongs before expecting to be forgiven.  

Adwoa Spencer

Posted: Saturday, Nov 15, 2008
Obama Won't Be First Black President

 Actually all people on this planet Earth originated from Africa,There is only one race,the human race so there cannot be mixed races, bi-racial.race is a purely American construct devised in the Slavery period to denie people of color rights that the US Constitution and British law guaranteed to all men.

The Americans made the "one drop rule", and white Americans need to wake up and learn about the truth of the enslavement of Africans and maybe after their learning and understanding of the Slave period the problems of unfairness that exists in American society can be dealt with,and the true greatness that awaits America will be achieved.

Richard Mann

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