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muon2
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« on: July 28, 2004, 07:16:07 PM »

It's basically a sure thing that he'll become the first black senator since Reconstruction...


Edward Brooke (R) of MA was in the Senate in the '60s and /or '70s. He was black.
... And defeated after 2 terms by then Congressman Paul Tsongas. When Tsongas chose not to run for reelection his seat was won by then Lt. Gov. John Kerry.
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2004, 08:38:25 PM »

Barack Obama seems like an attractive candidate.

It's interesting that liberals have adopted the "one drop" rule by calling him black.  He actually has a black father and a white mother, which makes him just as much white as he is black.

I favor this type of intermarriage because it will eventually show us how absurd our current thinking, which requires that we put everybody into a racial and ethnic box, is.

Much of the politics of racial and ethnic (and now gender) identification pushed by the left is little more than the old apartheid politics turned on its head.  It's not a break from the past, but simply the same bad thing in a slightly different form.
I agree, and the French have this part of human rights correct. The government has no need to ask citizens their ethnicity, let alone make policies that distinguish among the ethnicity of the residents.
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