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Entry: Barrack over Baldwin Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/barrack_over_baldwin#25890 Post contents: I actually have high hopes that an Obama administration may go in the opposite direction from predicted. I refer to his Philadelphia speech on race in which he noted being raised by a white grandmother who confided her own discomfort meeting black people on the street. He seemed to many commentators to be disparaging his grandmother's racism, but I think, to the contrary, he was disclosing his understanding of, and even sympathy for, white resentment and belief in the injustice of traditional liberal racial politics. After all, Obama, while he has brown skin, was raised in a totally white home, albeit as liberal and nonprejudiced as they come, and was infused with their impressions of the racial divide in America, not that of those conventionally called "African-Americans". I actually have hope, if you'll pardon the word, that Barack Obama may do for "counting by race" what Richard Nixon did for America's enmity towards communist China - bring an end to it. Who else could we elect that would have the credibility to do so? Sent at: 2008 07 24