Reply #246: There is a difference between AA's voting for an AA because he's black [View All]

[Amimnoch]

and a white person voting for a white person based on the fact that he's white.

I cannot believe anyone can't see that there is a huge difference between the two. Since George Washington, every single president has been a white male. For the first time in our country's history, there is a black male running for the office, and with a darn good chance of making it to at the very least the general election as the leader of one of the 2 major parties ticket. Of course that is going to greatly encourage the African American voting block! It is a representation they have NEVER had the opportunity to really have before now. There is a HUGE difference between someone who goes to the pole and votes for someone who is of their same demographic out of pride that there is finally someone on that ballot who is the first in centuries of their same demographic, and someone who has always had someone from their particular demographic on their ballot and goes to the poll specifically because they want to maintain their demographics dominance.

Yes, Senator Obama's being on the ballot has energized African American voters like no one's business, but to say that AA's who go to the ballot to vote for him are no different than Whites who may go to vote for a white against him for that particular reason are of the same cut.. bullshit.