Originally posted by Theairoh
I consider 'real racism' to be a lack of equal rights for people based on their ethnicity. I don't consider that to be an issue in America anymore. There is, however, still a great deal of racial stereo typing of all races, as well as prejudice in more isolated cases. But pure racism is gone.
I would have to disagree with you on this. Racism is alive and well in many areas such as employment, marketing, finance, housing, media and politics. I will agree racism is not as blatant as decades gone past, but it still exist at higher levels of corporations, military and most certainly politics. There is simply to much money being made from racism to allow it to just disappear. (For the record, I'm talking about racism across the board. Sexuality, Race, Gender, and Religion)


Originally posted by Theairoh

Not at all. The fact that Obama WAS elected is not really the point, rather that the American people were WILLING to elect him, and did so by a much larger voting turn-out than has been seen in quite a while.
Okay I'm not sure which side you are coming from now. Last post you stated it was about Obama and how he won by a landslide which was not an accurate statement. Now you are saying that a much larger voting turn-out was the reason? This is also not accurate. The voter turnout for the 2008 election percentage wise is lower then the increase of the 2004 elections which had a tremendous percentage increase over the 2000 elections. And if you want to go by the sheer numbers, the numbers increase is not much either.

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/...ng/004986.html

http://elections.gmu.edu/preliminary_vote_2008.html

In closing, I'm not really sure what you were trying to say with this post?