The world will love us again: another dud

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voodoopenguin wrote:
I have had a few discussions about this with friends and none of us think we have seen such a vocal negative reaction from the 'losing' side before and I hate to say it but most feel that there is a section of the US population that will never accept that a non-white has been elected.

I am sure that there will be a reaction to what I have just written but I am stating what many politically aware people from outside the USA feel. I personally wish to be shown that they are wrong.

I believe you are correct that some of the US population will never support Obama because of his race, but that number is probably smaller than you would think. A certain number of people in the US would never have accepted a woman as President. I also think that there are racial and other prejudices in every country in the world, however, most other countries in the world are not made up of as diverse a group of people as the US, so we tend to have more to overcome in this regard. The great thing about the US is our diversity and the way that we struggle to move forward, while embracing our differences. Some of the population moves forward more slowly than others and some just die off, eventually. Racism is not dead by any means, but I think it is dying.