[Dialogue] Run, Barack, Run

[Charles or Doris Hahn]

Almost surely, there are regions of the country that
would not vote for Obama, but mostly, they would vote
Republican anyway, wouldn't they? But first, he would
have to get through the primaries (but that was not
your question).
Doris Hahn

--- FacilitationFla at aol.com wrote:

>  
>  
> Thanks, Jann,
> It's nice to have someone 'dialogue'.  I'm still
> worried about the  racists 
> across the nation, and particularly in the South
> ("Dixiecrats" who  turned 
> Republican after the signing of the Civil Rights
> Act.  After Lyndon  Johnson 
> signed the document, people asked him why he was so
> sad.  He said  something like  
> -- the Democratic party had just lost (its power?
> for  the next 50 years.
> Cynthia
>  
> In a message dated 10/25/2006 2:27:40 A.M. Eastern
> Standard Time,  
> LAURELCG at aol.com writes:
> 
> In a  message dated 10/19/06 5:33:53 AM,
> FacilitationFla at aol.com  writes:
> 
> << He is wonderful but, will America vote for a
> Black  Man?  What do y'all  
> 
> think?  Cynthia  >>
> 
> I'm behind on e-mail, but wanted to answer Cynthia's
>  query.  Last week's 
> cover story in TIME magazine contained this,  which
> really resonated with me: 
>  "The 
> current Obama mania is  reminiscent of the Colin
> Powell mania in 1995[ ...]  
> Powell and Obama  ... are black people who - like
> Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey 
> and 
> Michael  Jordan - seem to have an iconic power over
> the American imagination  
> because they transcend racial stereotypes. 'It's all
> about gratitude,'  says 
> essayist Shelby Steel ...'White people are just
> thrilled when a  prominent 
> black 
> person comes along and doesn't rub their noses in
> racial  guilt.  White 
> people 
> just go crazy over people like  that.'"
> 
> Yes, Cynthia, I do think America would vote for 
> him.
> 
> Blessings,
> Jann McGuire
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cynthia N.  Vance
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