A month or so back I said that Obama was going to pull racists into his coalition. Today’s dailykos has proof, a poster describing how his/her mother in Kentucky said she wasn’t "ready for a colored man to be president," and changed her mind in the last couple of weeks, because of the war, because of Hillary:
"Well, you know, he’s half white," she pointed out, as though that was
some special revelation. "Maybe that’s a good thing, to have someone
who can see things from the point of view of black people and white
people."
Identity meant more when a mountain range–or a quota, or a color ban– separated you from the next tribe. The world’s too small for all that. And identity is evolving before our eyes. Black, white, southern, Jewish, Catholic. Just watch the kids, it’s fluid…
