Thinking about the incredible angst coming from those who

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are fifty plus and blaming it all on race is, at least in my humble opinion, not the whole story.

I think that this is the first time that a president was younger than they we are, that all the ball players we grew up with and enjoyed are gone, that all the movie stars from their generation are getting old and that the music of our generation is finally getting pushed off the stage.

It's about coming to grips with mortality.

Here comes Obama, a black man who is younger than they are who is talking in a Kennedy way and is suddenly in charge.

It's as if life is passing us by.

Now I use us in the sense that I don't feel this at all but I believe people my age and older are feeling it.

You would have had to come of age in the 70's to see what turmoil Affirmative Action and Busing caused. Equality in the abstract is wonderful but right there in front of you, well.

It's easy to blame the black man in the White House even though his views are pretty centrist. He personifies to many the decade of turmoil, the perceived special treatment and the continued erosion of our, meaning the US, place in the world.

It's a lot to think about. But I believe many are just scared to face the future and that they are gonna push back hard.