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What If You Reversed Information about Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin
Author → Asif → in Politics → on Oct 21 2008 10:59AM
Chris Rock brought up an point on race that is related to this and one that will probably never die during his latest comedy tour. First, he mentioned how his house cost millions (LOL), but in his neighborhood of hundreds of houses there are four black people: Eddie Murphy, Mary J. Blidge, Jay-Z, and himself. So if you broke it down, all four are famous celebrities with long lists of accomplishments which btw is mostly related to the entertainment field. Rock goes on to question do you know what my white neighbor does? He is a dentist! Not some some famous dentist, he won't be inducted into some dentist hall of fame, he is just a regular toothe-pulling dentist. You see, black people have to fly, they have to make miracles happen to acheive the same as their white counter-parts. That point really struck me, if you reverse the roles of Obama and McCain. I don't think anyone would disagree that if Michelle Obama paraded a family of five including an unwed pregnant teenage daughter, the right would all over it. That alone would cause great racial consternations.
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Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?.....think about it.
Would the country's collective point of view be different?
Ponder the following:
What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?
What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?
What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five?
(The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?
What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes? And was never given a command position.
What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?
What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution?
What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?
You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
Educational Background:
Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
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John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism
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