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To: sea_urchin who wrote (23131)5/25/2005 5:06:42 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) of 81226
 
Re: I'm curious to know what jobs there are that "blacks want to do"? Other than being politicians -- or priests.

GODAMMIT!! Actually, I didn't know there were THAT many black pols in America:

The 2008 race for the White House: The Contender
He galvanised the Democrat convention last year and life as a US senator clearly suits Barack Obama. Will he be America's first black President? By David Usborne

25 May 2005

It wasn't very long ago when most Americans had never heard the name Barack Obama, the newbie US senator from Illinois. Even now they get it wrong to his face. Senator Barama, Senator Alabama, Senator Banana. He always smiles and, in his characteristically muted tones, gently corrects them.

But seven months after the voters of Illinois sent him to the United States Senate, where he now sits as its only black member and only the third since the Civil War, such malapropisms have become much more rare. Because Obama, a lanky man with distractingly long fingers and a narrow face that looks younger than his 43 years, is suddenly one of the brightest and most promising stars in the American political firmament.
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news.independent.co.uk

That Senator Banana is the THIRD black Senator since 1865 --enough is enough!!!
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