"He could have waited. He's young. He could have spent a little more time in Washington and got a little more experience. Don't get me wrong, I ain't voting for McCain, and I hope he [Obama] wins, but I just don't think America is ready for a Black president. I am 74 years old, and I have lived through a lot of shit in this country, and America is just not ready to put a damn Black man in the White House."-Bigmama, as told to me this past Labor Day Weekend
Bigmama is willing to put all misgivings she may have aside and "Do the Right Thang" so to speak. These people? Not so much? Yahoo reports:
"Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them "lazy," "violent," responsible for their own troubles.
The poll, conducted with Stanford University, suggests that the percentage of voters who may turn away from Obama because of his race could easily be larger than the final difference between the candidates in 2004 — about two and one-half percentage points.
Certainly, Republican John McCain has his own obstacles: He's an ally of an unpopular president and would be the nation's oldest first-term president. But Obama faces this: 40 percent of all white Americans hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, and that includes many Democrats and independents.
More than a third of all white Democrats and independents — voters Obama can't win the White House without — agreed with at least one negative adjective about blacks, according to the survey, and they are significantly less likely to vote for Obama than those who don't have such views."
Damn. And I just got over worrying about Sarah Palin's momentum and how it could hurt Obama/Biden's chances of nabbing the White House this November. Damn, damn, damn!
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