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- monkeyshine0
Ninja, well written and honest. A point about your comments regarding affirmative action...from what I've read, Obama's position is not so far off from your own. One of the reasons I am supporting him is that he wants to put the focus on class issues rather than race. I believe that a lot of what we classify as racism is really a class issue. If we dealt with our class problems, it would at the very least clarify our issues of race.
I'm not sure what I think about affirmative action. Obama has said he doesn't think his daughters should benefit from it...they have every opportunity in the world to succeed on their own merits. I appreciate his thoughtful responses...of course this isn't really winning him praise from affirmative action advocates like Tavis Smiley but I respect his will to stand up to them.