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Entry: Thinking About Obama Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/thinking_about_obama#29503 Post contents: I'm glad to hear Professor Gottfried still has more faith in Americans than in Germans or Spaniards. The one dark horse not being mentioned is the role Hispanics will play in this election. Anti-immigration conservatives may not know just how anti-black the average Mexican or Hispanic really is. First generation immigrants tend to distinguish themselves by a strong antipathy to native blacks; they don't like what they see, and especially resent the black sense of entitlement. Every other little Mexican I speak with in Spanish, whether at a bodega in NY or an auto shop in suburbia, engages in old-fashioned racist talk about blacks worthy of 1940. La Raza no more speaks for the average Hispanic than the KKK for the average white. Obama's supporters are blacks, hard leftsist and naive white yuppie-like I-pod people. It is not clear to me he will win TX, FL or NJ. This is not endorsement of the current immigration madness, simply an observation that the people who have been let in may not be as down with the lefty hipsters as we think. The melting pot has broken, true, but there are still plenty of immigrants who want to be as "white" as possible, and they don't like the Obamas and the insinuation that they are of the same kind. Sent at: 2008 12 02