In a video interview on the very worthwhile
Uncommon Knowledge series with Peter Robinson,
Shelby Steele points out the irony of President-Elect Obama:
it is precisely because of race that he was elected.
Whites voted for him to absolve themselves from the burden
of white guilt and blacks voted for him to release themselves from
the stigma of black inferiority.
BTW, funny how he is always the First Black President
rather than what he really is, the First Mixed Race President.
On a symbolic level, that is just as powerful as his appearance
because the sexual union of black and white represents the
great fear of BOTH sides...something I learned a little bit
about in my nine-year relationship with a man who is black.
It's a shame both his parents aren't alive. It would be quite
something to have them standing next to each other
at his side on Inauguration Day.
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