I can't swear fort he veracity of the content or the source but a friend sent the following thought provoking e-mail.
"From Letters to the Editors @ Fort Worth Star-Telegram"
How racism works
What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said I do to?
What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?
What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama were a member of the Keating 5?
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
Here was my response.
Maybe you're right that this is racism but that's the way politics works from what I have seen in my lifetime.
Seems the last two elections in the US (and The Bahamas for that matter) were very close. And all those candidates were the same colour.
What do you think?
