Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Obama Wins Indiana

Posted by _J_ at 2:20 AM

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10 comments:

Mike Lewis said...

motherfucking yeah
icing on the cake

November 5, 2008 at 2:23 AM
_J_ said...

DailyKos
538
CNN
MSNBC

November 5, 2008 at 2:23 AM
_J_ said...

This means an absurd amount to me.

November 5, 2008 at 2:26 AM
Unknown said...

Wow. Just Wow.

November 5, 2008 at 2:43 AM
_J_ said...

For as long as I can remember Holidays with my family have been occasions in which my father and grandfather would sit down and talk about "them damn niggers". I was told at a young age that my great great grandfather had been active in Indiana's branch of the KKK. My childhood development was underscored with an undertone of racism, with an inherent assumption that "those people" were somehow estranged from "we people".

It was always explained, always "rationalized". "This was how we were raised" is what my parents would say. My grandfather didn't really qualify it, though. Rather, it was simply how things were. "He's a nigger" was said factually, in the way one would say "That's an apple."

Eventually I came to put a humorous spin on it, to downplay it jokingly. I tried to deal with racism by belittling it to humor rather than attempting to outright removing it.

Sure, parts of Indiana will continue to think of "them damn niggers". Sure, a plethora of counties voted for McCain. But the majority of people from Indiana voted for Barack Obama, the first black president. It's not the case that we are forever entrenched in racism. It's not the case that we perpetually accept as fact "He's a Nigger". We can change.

That's why this matters to me. It doesn't negate all of those family gatherings. It does not fully cleanse that stain of racism from history.

But it's a sign that, in the future, far fewer children will have to sit at a table at Thanksgiving and listen to their parents and grandparents being ignorant racist fuckheads.

And that's something.

November 5, 2008 3:32 AM

November 5, 2008 at 3:33 AM
Andrew said...

I never dreamed this day would come. im so happy :)

November 5, 2008 at 9:21 AM
Mike Lewis said...

Oh,
by the way,
fuck you Kosciusko County 68/31?

Kosciusko County went for McCain by a high margin then ANY OTHER COUNTY IN THE STATE.

You fuckers are the wrong side of history. You fuckers are like the people who didnt think tearing down the Berlin was a Bad Idea.

November 5, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Unknown said...

As wonderful a thing as Obama being elected is, the 48% of the country who voted against him are not automatically wrong and bad people. Bad form, I say, bad form.

November 5, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Andrew said...

but some of them are.

November 5, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Unknown said...

I'm willing to bet the same number of people who voted against Barack for all the wrong reasons also voted for him for all the wrong reasons. It just seems petty to me, after winning, to take cheap shots, assuming the worst.

November 5, 2008 at 3:12 PM

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