Alright, this isn't the first time they've done it this election, but I saw two articles today relating to that.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/04/obama.black.republicans/index.html
http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/04/95-white-iowa-keeps-backing-obama/
In the first article they mention that some Black Republicans are torn between voting for their party and voting for their race, now honestly, anyone who would vote for a presidential candidate just because he is black is just as racist as someone who would vote for a candidate just because hes white, and even if you think your doing a good deed or something by voting for a black candidate that is not the case, in fact the race issue will NEVER be solved until race is no longer a issue and EVERYONE just votes for the candidates based on the issue. If you vote based on race, I don't care who you are, I am calling you racist right now, and I hope you will understand that the race issue will ONLY be solved once race is no longer an issue.
""Let's say Barack Obama wins and 30 years down the line, you're a black Republican or black conservative and your grandkid comes to you and says, 'Did you vote for Obama?' It's going to be hard to argue why you didn't," Fauntroy said." -First CNN Article I linked
WTF! How exactly is it going to be hard to argue why you didn't? It would be easy to argue why you didn't you can just say what your political beliefs are and that they oppose those held by Barrack Obama, but no, I guess CNN assumes that all Black people now and forever are going to be racist and hate anyone that didn't vote for Obama and it won't make sense for them not to, liberal dumbasses...
And now on to the other article:
CNN is pretty much acting like it was some big surprise and still is that a state that is 95% white supports Obama, but really, if we want race to not be an issue there shouldn't be retarded articles like this with no other purpose than CNN being racist as usual and wanting to talk about Obama because they are mad that McCain is getting more attention elsewhere because of the Republican National Convention.
Here is a thread I had posted here back in January on the topic of CNN being racist
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=15090
And here is the article that was being discussed in the thread:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/21/blackwomen.voters/index.html
The article by CNN said that black women in South Carolina had a "unique choice" in the upcoming primary, in that they had to pick between voting for their race, or voting for their gender.
The fools at CNN failed to recognize the fact that white men also had this "unique choice" in the primary, they had to choose between either their gender or their race. But of course I guess in CNNs mind the only races are Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and Women. White men are just everyone else.
And I just now noticed in my old thread a quote from Kamil which I had responded to then but I will bring this to attention in my thread now as well:
"@What if Black woman are in fact rasist/discriminating and are voting for Obama/Clinton? Then CNN shouldn't report it?"
Yes CNN should report it if that is the case but they never made any mention of black women being racist or discriminating they just said they had to choose between their race and their gender as if it was just some normal thing, but of course if it was white men it would be completely racist by their standards.
Alright well I guess I can finish my rant here, sorry for going off a bit I just check all the news sites and CNN has a tendency to really piss me off sometimes, and I especially hate it with the issue of race coming up often. I am a white male Republican but I believe that race should not even be looked at in the Candidates, I go to a school that is 96% White with the other percentages being 2% Asian, 1% Black, and 1% Other and yet I still have friends of every race including black and biracial friends that go to the Kalamazoo Public Schools (which have a high percentage of black students, I lived in Kalamazoo prior to High School).
I really want the race issue to be non existent and the only way this will ever happen is if it isn't brought up in ways like this and if people truly look at a person based on who they are and what they believe in and not what race or gender they are. And anyone who actually is torn between race and beliefs as CNN seems to suggest, go with your beliefs because race is simply a superficial thing and nothing to make decisions based on.
I am sure I will have quite a few people here disagreeing with me and a lot probably that won't even read through my whole post seeing as to how a lot of people at this website are under 18 which a lot of people in that age group and even in the 18 to 21 age group tend to be liberals because they have an idealistic view of the world rather than a realistic one, but I am fine with people disagreeing with me. Please discuss what you think on this issue.
Thank you,
~Ickalanda
