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Biracial, but not like me
In search of his identity, Barack Obama took the opposite path that I did. But we arrived at the same place -- and I'm voting for him.
By Gary Kamiya [2008-02-05]

  • This is the difference -

    Obama has earned it the hard way. Having read his book is a difference maker to me. What is the point of thinking groupwise - gender v. race - after you read it? I'm really pissed at Gloria Steinem and Erica Jong for arguing that a privileged white person from a well to do Chicago suburb who is obviously disadvantaged by her sex, had anywhere near the same disadvantage as this guy (or this guy's mother). Yet he emerged from all that as a stronger, more unique, fearless individual than her.

    P.S. Erica Jong's slander of Obama as a "token" today in the Washington Post baffles me.

    -- joemartin64
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    Monday, February 4, 2008 07:10 PM
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