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- gramme0
I agree miko, it's a beautiful thing for black people and our nation as a whole, to be able to see past color. Even if I think many of Obama's policies are bunk.
- Jimbo820
I'm from the South and went to uni in Manchester, was up there for 3 years and when there my accent got stronger south if anything, I think I enjoyed being different to everyone else and so it got more and more exagerated until I was just went around mumbling "apples n pears, apples n pears, apples n pears"
- redant0
Political thread?
- someone was smoking in there, and I've got my kid with me.mikotondria3
- vespa0
yea 7point34 i've always felt like i didn't fit in anywhere. tell your friend to go to hawaii...
The other day i was doing a photoshoot with my band, and the other 2 girls and the photographer are white. For some reason we were talking about how lovely spoken language sounds to the ear in Swahili, and I said, I only know one word -- "Mazungi", cos my Raj calls me Mazungi, it means whitey, awww. And they all looked at me blankly, and I realised haha they don't think of me as white so they don't get it!
Anyways I wonder if Obama's kenyan grandma calls him her little Mazungu :)
- Jimbo820
This thread was started to talk about how Obama is portrayed as a black man by the media, himself and his team when really he is mixed race. And why that is so.
- _salisae_0
through the years here on nt i have felt very judged and insulted by the comments made by the british about americans. it took a lot of will power and forced perspective to not feel directly represented by your narrow view of us. now that i – along with many of my friends and my family – are represented by someone who shares many of our philosophies and sentiments allows me such a huge sigh of relief.
i apologize if this came across in other ways and my anger toward you guys was all too apparent, but what can i say – i might not be a stupid american – but i am throughly human.
- brits OR australians living as brits :)_salisae_
- *hugs the yankkelpie
- who me? what did i say?vespa
- lol @ kelpievespa
- (in seriousness, apology right back if I've ever been guilty of that)kelpie
- Sorry,but you americans voted bush in twice, you have to cop some flak for that.thebottlerocket
- i didn't vote bush in. i voted quite the opposite. it was a twice stolen election, ffs._salisae_
- and yes, i am apologizing to you, vespa. and sorry again if you can't see that i'm happy you're on the american side now that it suits you._salisae_
- now that it suits you and specifically applies to your mixed race experience._salisae_
- well, you don't come off that contrite, in fact i get the impression you've been waiting...thebottlerocket
- years to make a post like this.thebottlerocket
- gramme0
The blinding optimism and CHANGE motto have an eerily Bolshevik-esque tone to me. The Fairey posters didn't help in that regard; though well-illustrated and designed they smack of Eastern European socialism to me, at least on a gut level.
- gramme0
Don't tell anyone in my church that the Gotham was my choice for their secondary typeface. The primary one is Mercury. Like peas and carrots.
- harlequino0
Breakfast tasted so so good this morning.
- madirish0
i for one, am very happy for Rand. He has dreamed of this all for so long and put so much into it- breathe ease well my friend.
- haven't seen him. i worry he's had a heart attack7point34
- where is Rand today?vespa
- he goes by the name hallelujah these days, he's about. yay for Rand, that's exactly how I felt tookelpie
- thanks guyshallelujah
- that explains a lot.paraselene
- redant0
He is half white and half Kenyan. I don't think he had a typical American Black upbringing but he looks the part and this brings hope to alot of Black Americans. Which is a great thing.
- Llyod0
Obama will have to be a miracle worker to pull the economy out of the pooper and resolve two wars, and solve countless other problems.
- exador10
what movie was it where the guy said something along the lines of 'the sooner we all start having sex with each other, the sooner we can all start looking philipino...and then we'll all be better off, cuz those are some damn fine looking people'
or something like that..
always liked that :)
my kids are mixed... so I'm all for it :)
- Taschen0
The difference in popular vote isnt that great:
McCain (R) 55,542,743
Obama (D) 62,680,702Man, I'm actually tired of hearing about Obama
- yeah 7 million isn't that much. wait, wtf are you talking about? let's stay positive here.doesnotexist
- i don't swim in your toilet. please, don't piss in my pool7point34
- that's the biggest % dem win since LBJ in early 64hallelujah
- another reason to recognise how complex america is and how important it is to reconcile and for us not to judge its citizens too harshlykelpie
- ...harshlykelpie
- that 7 million difference all came from Oprah viewersTaschen
- IT IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE! Gore won the popular vote and Bush won by only 3million votes and with only 34 more electoral votes... so get real. Obama won huge.blaster
- gramme0
Obama is not going to pull our economy out of the gutter. It's not within his power, regardless of what he and the pundits say. A president can help PUT us in the economic shitter, but they are largely incapable of pulling us out. It's up to us. It's up to businesses and the people running them.
- right but the help of a government making THE RIGHT choices nationally will help out greatly.anxiousarms
- taxing businesses as he plans, will make that very toughsputnik2
- Business did well under Clinton with the same tax rates.Mimio
- That had nothing to do with Clinton. It was all about the ebb and flow of business.gramme
- Just saying it didn't effect growth or jobs. Besides it's far better than what McCain was suggesting.Mimio
- Balancing the budget and freezing federal spending in a recession like this is death to the economy.Mimio
- bigbaby530
I know there are a lot of "non-americans" on QBN...What are your thoughts of the US now, as an outsider? Many folks outside of the US have seen us as a bit nuts after witnessing the last 8 yrs. Is this election the beginning of a healing, of sorts, on how the US is viewed by other countries?
- I think we have a slightly optimistic feeling about America again. Time will tell.ETM
- Jimbo820
It'll be interesting to see if people still rave about him in 4 years time, I doubt they will.
- Taschen0
Obamarama
- mg330
Oh man, I completely forgot that I heard someone jokingly say last night "What a day for Half-rican Americans!" on account of Obama being the son of a white mother and Kenyan father.