But considering all the shit minorities in America have gone through (The japanese put in concentration camps, slavery for blacks, native americans on reservations, and discrimination for all), and considering how it wasn't that long ago when all this happened, isn't it great to see how far said race, and America has come?

Yes, it is a very big deal.

And it is something to be proud of when your country can go from enslaving a race or putting them on reservations, to having them be some of the top (insert position of power here) in the country.

Does that not speak to how great this country is?

To say that it doesn't matter, say, that Barack Obama won the presidency (that's he's black/why should we care/etc.) is to essentially discredit the fact that many people had racial misgivings just thirty years ago.

So yes, it's important. After the first, it won't. But as of now, it is.

How do people not understand this?

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obama is the best. white or black hes amazing

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He hasn't been president yet.

How do you know?

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I want David Blue.
Right now.

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We got a woman there before you.

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so did canada but no one liked her

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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.

[EDIT] No homo.

Post edited at 2:26 pm on Nov. 5, 2008 by HaitianGURL67

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"Treat you Better than Me,Cause that's the Heavenly Key
To Unlock The Inner Strength,Where My Essence Will Be."-Nujabes.

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I agree with it all. But not the "Does that not speak to how great this country is?" part. If any country was so great then none of these bad things would of happened to begin with.

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Good point.

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I agree with it all. But not the "Does that not speak to how great this country is?" part. If any country was so great then none of these bad things would of happened to begin with.

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I agree, but what nations in history do you consider great? Greece? Rome maybe?. The fact of the matter is just about every "great nation" that has every existed has had some sort of slavery or mass racial discrimination in its history

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"I proudly serve my country's Navy combat team with honor, courage,
and commitment."

The Hispanics in Hispanic nations?

The Japanese in Japan? Remember, the natives of Japan are treated worse than the Natives of America.

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"One of the Germans... would frequently snatch a child from the
woman's arms and... tear the child in half... Such incidents...
occurred all the time." - A Year in Treblinka, Yankel Wiernik,
Treblinka's "most authoritative eyewitness"