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An Open Letter to Obama Voters

Do you think you could at least mention that many whites did not vote for Obama because he was black, and that's racism, too? Or are all the white folk enlightened beyond that already?

Did you vote for Barack Obama in 2008? A lot of people did – obviously.

What a time. There’s still room for improvement, but what a testimony to just how far we as a nation have come in terms of racial harmony, tolerance and diversity.

Only decades earlier a man like Barack Obama – a black man – couldn’t even drink from the same water fountain as a white man, let alone become president of the United States. A hundred years prior to that, and he may well have been counted another man’s property.

On Nov. 4, 2008,...

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