Watching Tom Brokow this morning, on the Chris Matthews Show, almost made me lose my breakfast. He told the viewers to close their eyes and picture Barack and Michelle Obama in the White House and what that would mean for the country.

Then Chris finally got to what I think is the crux of so many people being fascinated with Obama. He said that from elementary school through grad school, he never had a black person in his class.

Growing up in a racially and ethnically mixed neighborhood, the fact that Obama is African-American doesn’t really have any effect on me, personally. But, I am concerned that many caucasian Americans, who never got any closer to blacks than watching Bill Cosby on TV; think that by electing an African American president, all will be right with the country and they can feel vindicated and forgiven for the ’sins of the past’.

These people are living in LaLa Land. The media is inferring that electing Obama will go a great way in healing racial wounds in this country. That remains to be seen, but we are being fed this premise as if it were fact.

I think caucasians need to take a moment out to close their eyes and envision Barack Obama as a caucasian person. Then they might make their choice without negative or positive racial bias.

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