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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (55209)	3/22/2008 3:08:36 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (3) of 542202

This was a duplicate, but I thought of something else. Today I heard a lot of noise on Fox, and even a mention on NPR, about Obama's use of the phrase "typical white person" to describe his grandmother. Some of the people said that if a white person used the phrase "typical black person" everyone would be outraged. But that's silly. They're taking three words and reacting to them, instead of listening to what the man was saying. He said that his grandmother loved him more than anything in the world, but that she would occasionally utter racial stereotypes that made him cringe. He said that of course he would not disown her for that. I think it's a perfectly valid point, and he wasn't portraying her as a horrible racist as many people have suggested he was. If a white person said "The typical black person is good looking and industrious", I don't think anyone would freak out about it. So really, the phrase "typical white person" isn't, in itself, a problem. And let's not forget something. Barack Obama is just as much a white person as he is a black person. - Allen

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