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all watched this go on, taking sides would be pointless. Don't allow yourself do be baited. Period. Personally I think Heru has an irrational fixation with the idea you may have voted for PE Obama based "in part" on his skin color. So did a lot of people. There are valid arguments for why at this point in time in human history, skin color isn't necessarily an inappropriate "part" of someone's rationale for voting for PE Obama. Heru wants to believe in the ideal whereby no human being is "evaluated" on the amount of melanin in their skin . . . so do I. But that isn't the world we live in and there is something to be said for the very realworld good that symbolic representations of certain values can yield. If Heru doesn't understand that, he's not being intellectually/emotionally honest and isn't living in the real world.
