Why don’t you go back and read my post, which directly answers your question?
I don’t complain that they call me a racist based on suspicion. They call me a racist because they are losing arguments with me.
And this wouldn’t confirm that I am racist unless a dig at Obama and/or affirmative action is necessarily racist. Which isn’t the case. So I neither apologize nor admit anything - just poke at you and laugh.
Regards,
Shodan
I think you guys underestimate how much Obama has changed the world.
It’s not just about America, folks. Since Obama showed up, I’ve been working on two different continents. And on both of them, I can say Obama has changed things for the better. Around the world, Obama has inspired people to believe again that the world is headed the right direction. People were SCARED of George Bush. Everywhere I traveled, people expressed fear about our president and the way the world was going. But now- I’m proud to tell people I’m American. And people respond with enthusiasm. Because, to them, it now looks like the world is back on track. That we can have cooperation and peace again. People are optimistic again- not just about America, but about our future as a planet. They know our president affects their entire lives, but they don’t get to vote for him. This time, the world in general feels like we picked the right guy. And that the most powerful country in the world can go back to being a team player, which makes everyone pretty damn happy.
Is being an inspiration for peace enough to merit the prize? Could be. The world is a different and better place than it was a couple of years ago, and Obama has been a big contributor to that. Of course, some of that is “he’s not Bush.” But I think it goes a bit deeper. His whole story is inspiring to people. There are not many places on this planet where someone with his story could aspire to be president. And that makes people look around them and wonder- why not? Why can something like that happen in America and not where they are? And that inspires change…
A dig at Obama involving affirmative action is necessarily racist, since the clear implication of your comment is that he must have been a beneficiary.
This is entirely what I meant. I apologize if my use of the word “cite” in this context was unclear or confusing to anyone.
Moving on…
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Are you kidding me?
A specific government policy is instituted for the express purpose of benefiting black people, and Shodan’s a racist for suggesting that a black man benefited from it?
So saying that anyone benefited from affirmative action is racist?
Wasn’t sure if you were a blithering idiot - thanks for clarifying.
However, polls in the country where Obama is actually President say exactly the opposite. Hell, even the hardest of the hard Left halfwits agree that the USA is headed in the wrong direction.
Regards,
Shodan
I haven’t been in the US for a while, and it doesn’t change the fact that he is still hugely popular around the world. And your kidding yourself if you think he’s just our president. His actions can affect people outside of the United States as much or perhaps even more than their own governments.
The point of the post was that Obama accepted the prize because of his experience with affirmative action, i.e., being handed things he didn’t deserve solely on the basis of his race. You have some other interpretation of the post, other than that Shodan is making the assumption that (a) Obama was previously the beneficiary of affirmative action such that (b) he got a position he didn’t deserve (whether in his studies or one of his jobs, which he assumes not because of any actual evidence but because (c) Obama is Black?