For people who say they won't vote for Obama..

[butterfly77]

due to his race or people you know who say this, I have two questions maybe more as I write this. Why do they ignore the fact that he is caucasian also? Why do they think Blacks shouldn't be president but when it comes to war they are more than willing to accept blacks?

Why do they think that blacks should not enjoy all of the fruits of this country when they helped to build it and protect it but others can come to this country and have more priviledges than blacks who were born here? I know some hate these questions to be asked but do they ever see it from a black person's point of view? Angers away... another question Why can't Hillary supporters see that Hillary is using race to divide us just so she can win?

[quantass]

1. Baffling isn't it.

[boobooday]

2. Puzzling -- I had to use that word today

But really, just like the accusation that he is racist against whites . . . strange.

[butterfly77]

5. Yes, everytime I hear this...

I just scratch my head..

[dems_rightnow]

3. Nobody on this board

has ever said they won't vote for Obama because of his race, at least I hope not.

There are people out there who feel that way for sure, but no amount of logic is going to change them.

[butterfly77]

8. I am not talking about this board...

I am talking about everytime I hear Hillary say he can't win and then she goes on and says he can't win white working class voters (which is a lie). I can see this is only as race baiting to the ill informed.

[Xipe Totec]

10. Link to the quote in question?

Show me the quote where HRC said what you claim she said.

[butterfly77]

11. That should not be so hard to find..

USA Today notices that Sen. Hillary Clinton has begun referring explicitly to her appeal among white voters while on the campaign trail:

Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters -- including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.


"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

This is the second time since Tuesday's primaries that the Clinton campaign has referred to the racial dimension of the voting electorate. Ben Smith reports from yesterday's conference call on the state of the race:

And Garin brags, specifically and explicitly, about her strength with the white vote, comparing North Carolina's white voters in North Carolina to those in Virginia. (The conversations have always been about these voters, but they're usually referred to as "blue collar" or by some less specifically racial euphemism.)


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[quantass]

9. People on this board

will tend to be more knowledge seekers and so i find it doubtful that people here in a vast majority would use race as a deciding factor....the same goes with sexism.

[patrice]

4. How many Dead Iraqis do you think there'd be if they were "White" "Christians"? nt

[quantass]

6. My Thoughts...

1) For the anglo heritage in him i figure it is just human nature to see that externally he has darker skin than the avg anglo and thus is a now a "colored"

2) Maybe the unacceptance of blacks as president is primarily due to the fact that it is "different"..Humans fear change..its usually the young that dare it but for the most part on a whole human beings resist it...and now we are talking about the biggest change of all: a black man...what would be bigger would be an asian woman.

3)There is also the slight fear of handing the reins to a black person out of fear that the slave master is going to get a lickin' from his cotton-pickin' slave ... which is totally silly but i think some whites feel this way.

But thankfully a large amount of americans are ready for change and more importantly someone who is willing to take this country in the right direction, and that person just happens to be Black....America is growing up!

[Hippo_Tron]

7. They won't admit it's skin color it's that he's too "culturally black"

Most racists in this day in age don't admit their racism by just saying flat out that white people are superior because of the melanin level in their skin. Instead they talk about how black people are all criminals, drug dealers, and "welfare queens". The thing is that even if you're half white, your dark skin makes you associated with their ignorant stereotypes of black people.

[alaska1]

12. Please help!

For all those Senator Obama supporters out there, I am unsure of my ability to support him going forward, and I need you to let me know his positions on issues so that I can decide better after the primaries. I only care about issues here please.

[crickets]

13. Welcome to DU, alaska1

http://www.google.com/
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/

Hope that helps.

[TexasObserver]

14. Those kind of whites don't like biracial people, either.