Despite the many cries that this past presidential election was not about race, it was.
Throughout the entire campaign, "If you don't vote for Obama, you're a racist". As if the only existing trait about this man is his skin color.
Every article and newscast, "If elected, he will be the first African-American president...", "...the first black president..", "...the first African-American to be elected president..."
Why is his skin color continuously brought up if it has no relevance?
And this campaign, this election, this inauguration, are all being touted as such incredibly historic events...
If it was not about race...
If we are truly equal and skin color has no meaning...
Then this inauguration is no more historic than every one past.
He is not a "black man", but simply a man. And that is the point everyone is missing.
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