This has to be one of the dumbest responses (and racist) I've read. You've firstly riddled the beginning of your responses with generalizations as if you know every black person near the south side of Chicago. Second you assume the reasons why African-Americans voted for Obama. News flash African-Americans vote democrat (at least majority of us do statistically) Obama just happens to be African-American and the fact that he is the first president of color is a pretty big deal considering historically people of color lived through racial segregation.
First, the beginning of
your response totally discredited the rest of your response. (I never wrote that I LIVE in Chicago)
You apparently did not read and comprehend my post, Aristotle.
What you did was automatically jump to the conclusion (and cherry picked my post in your thoughts) that my post was 'racist'...it was NOT intended to spew hatred and racism, it was an account of MY OWN PERSONAL experience being brought up on the south side of a big city (NOT CHICAGO) and living and working in a neighborhood for years with blacks...they were my neighbors, classmates, and customers...so, I got to know the
real life of their lives every single day. And trust me, it's NOT just the blacks that were racist, it was the mexicans too...and the few whites that lived around us (that were mostly involved with a black or mexican, or living with them, like my OWN mother)
Unlike most, I take PRIDE in
both sides of my race...my WHITE side AND my MEXICAN side.
The point of my OP was NOT a dig at blacks, it was about the President also being HALF WHITE and the confusion as to WHY people (blacks, white folks and the hispanics) voted for him that did NOT stop to think that he is also HALF WHITE...in my own personal experience of being a 'mixed' or bi-racial HUMAN, I was born, introduced, loved and raised by BOTH sides of my family...and by that, I expect the President did as well.
And yes, I know all too well about segregation and what it instilled in those who were seperated from the whites as if they were just dirt, by my families OWN accounts of it and bringing it to light to myself and my siblings as well to the rest of the other young ones growing up...segregation was, is and always will be a part of "us" as slavery of blacks is to them now...and, WHO else do you think had to drink from the 'colored' water fountains that were not white? Maybe that is why the signs said 'colored' instead of strictly negroes or the other N word?
hmmm....