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Why is there such a big deal about the "first black president"?

It has nothing to do with being 'racist'. We all know that on national television, they showed buses loading up people who otherwise wouldn't have voted (and probably didn't vote in previous elections, because they weren't given 'buses'). If they went and voted for Obama because they were given a 'bus trip/outing'...isn't that a bit unfair? The same process was used in Georgia's Cynthia McKinney election. She got in by doing the same thing. She was in for a while...and then people realized they had made an awful mistake. The same people that voted her in realized how foolish they had been, and her own black people began to dislike her. Why is there such a huge focus on him being the "first black president"? It honestly seems like that is ALL that people care about. Forget his values, forget his morals - they want him in there because he is 'black' - and that is coming out of people's mouths on live television. They think they will bring some huge 'change' (of course, his own slogan was 'change') to America. I saw people on TV in churches who are always screaming, "We shall overcome!" Yes, I'm white. I have no problem at all with the black people that do something with themselves in life and try to make the world a better place. I'm a new generation - born in the 80's, before slavery. Yet many black people hate me for what my ancestors did, and I don't 'owe' them anything because my skin color happens to be the same as the former generation that persecuted their former generation's skin color. Growing up in schools, I heard black children my age say, "They've been against us since the 70's" - who were born in the 80's, just like me. This is a massive problem - we're stuck in the past here. If what people say about Martin Luther King's dream coming true - why are so many black people unhappy and making everyone else miserable? Why are people still shouting they "shall overcome!" when the whole slavery and segregation thing was GONE in the 70's. Gone. Gone. So now, why am I in 2009 still hearing all of this nonsense about 'overcoming'? Every black person that I knew, voted for Obama because they wanted a 'black president.' Because their reasoning was that since he was their own skin color...that he would be in favor of them. Isn't that unfair to whites? Is it not unfair to whites who are persecuted by present-day blacks who weren't even born in the 70's, yet still hate whites for something they had no control of in the past and weren't even born yet? Where I live, most of the blacks have really good jobs. Most of them also get welfare for each and every kid they have per month. Our government is going broke, and people are having their hair braided and nails done with the money they get from working a job - but let the government feed their kids. Yes, I think all of humanity in general should have a problem with this. It's wrong and will always be wrong. As the son of a white widow who grew up for most of my life without a father (no, he was not a 'baby's daddy' and took off, either)...we couldn't get welfare. Yet every black person seems to get it. If it does not serve all people...what good is it? Correct me if I'm wrong...but are not the people always screaming "racist" not being racist themselves by hating people who had nothing to do with the past generations? That's wrong, too. Two wrongs don't make a right. However, I'm really tired of hearing about the 'first black president' when to me...I'm looking at his qualifications, morals and experience. He already seems to support abortion - the murder of babies. What will be next? Gay marriage? Being a "people's president" is not quite a good thing. And note also that I'm not thrilled about the 'white' people of my former generation who kicked Native Americans off from their land and killed them, so that they could take it. Yet I'm not perpetually mad at every 'white' person present-day, who wasn't responsible for that and wasn't alive to take part in it. I have Native American in my family's bloodline, as well...so it's a two-way street. And yes, Chad, you are correct - Obama's mother is factually white and his father is black. Agreed, Mutt. James - Not really. One doesn't have to look backwards into the past, because all of this nonsense is still staring us in the face present-day. I brought it up because I'm among the probably millions of people who are so sick of hearing about it present-day. I don't have a problem with Obama's skin color - and if he does a good job in office, then good. However...I do not think it's fair that the common black view is that he will "bring justice to blacks" for things like the past events - which are indeed past. Yes, they were bad. So was the treatment of Native Americans. So was the Holocaust. So was the Inquisitions. If we focus on one bad history even - why not all?

Public Comments

1. Technically, he's the first half-black President.
2. It sure would be nice if, now that we are in the 21st century, people would be color blind when it comes to someone's skin. Do I care if Obama is black? No. I would also not care if he was Asian, Native American, Hispanic, White or any other ethnic group. All I care about is if he can do the job, and fix the problems government has gotten us into (not Bush, but GOVERNMENT as a whole, both Republican and Democrat). We will find out in 4 years if he did a good job or not.
3. Well I like the guy for his politics, but it's good that a biracial person was able to reach the highest office in the country in regards to how America exploited and used Africans and African Americans to profit. It is backwards looking to bring it up though. I think it was mostly the media that played the race card in regards to the Obamas. I just would feel really bad if someone voted for or against him due to his skin color. And since we're bringing up statistics - more white people are on welfare than black people. In addition, over all America still has many defacto prejudicial laws and views that are based on race (as well as gender and economic level). I don't know. I just like him. And as a biracial person I think it's great that a black person can be President. Especially when considering that my mother lived up until she was 17 without the same rights as my father.