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To: American Spirit who wrote (118556)	3/18/2008 12:55:05 PM
From: Jane4IceCream	Respond to of 173976

Geez....SHADDUP. Jane

To: American Spirit who wrote (118556)	3/18/2008 12:57:44 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 173976

Speaking of people who are due for a change, there is significant support for this change? Note the recs... ----------- 2/12/2008 11:35:41 AM From: jlallen 23 Recommendations Read Replies (4) of 118559 "Will you STFU you babbling moron.....Gawd you are an idiot."

To: American Spirit who wrote (118556)	3/18/2008 4:19:54 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Message 24418022

To: American Spirit who wrote (118556)	3/18/2008 5:16:44 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

How to turn one's blackness to advantage? The answer is that one "bargains." Bargaining is a mask that blacks can wear in the American mainstream, one that enables them to put whites at their ease. This mask diffuses the anxiety that goes along with being white in a multiracial society. Bargainers make the subliminal promise to whites not to shame them with America's history of racism, on the condition that they will not hold the bargainer's race against him. And whites love this bargain -- and feel affection for the bargainer -- because it gives them racial innocence in a society where whites live under constant threat of being stigmatized as racist. So the bargainer presents himself as an opportunity for whites to experience racial innocence. This is how Mr. Obama has turned his blackness into his great political advantage, and also into a kind of personal charisma. Bargainers are conduits of white innocence, and they are as popular as the need for white innocence is strong. Mr. Obama's extraordinary dash to the forefront of American politics is less a measure of the man than of the hunger in white America for racial innocence. His actual policy positions are little more than Democratic Party boilerplate and hardly a tick different from Hillary's positions. He espouses no galvanizing political idea. He is unable to say what he means by "change" or "hope" or "the future." And he has failed to say how he would actually be a "unifier." By the evidence of his slight political record (130 "present" votes in the Illinois state legislature, little achievement in the U.S. Senate) Barack Obama stacks up as something of a mediocrity. None of this matters much.