texaslawyer, you have that peculiar arrogance that almost every lawyer I know has (I know a ton), the unearned kind (oh noes!!! have I been stereotypical?!). You've read a book a ton of other people have read, have some insights about it, and have spotted everyone three weeks to grapple with your brilliance. Really??

Obama identifies himself as a black person. Black people often have very complex, angry views as a minority that has been, throughout a short history, legally defined as a 3/5 person, sold as chattel, murdered for looking at white women, and forced to drink from separate fountains. Yes, the black people (person?) you know probably hasn't experienced those things, but their culture and tradition is inextricably bound in those hardships. Conservatives dig culture and tradition so you should understand this. They are surrounded by a white society and power structure that forcibly excluded them until recently, and implicitly does do today. So you can imagine they might have some hard-edged, sterotypical things to say about that. Some of it's youth. Some of it's stupid. Some of it's right on. That is not an apology.

Now John McCain can't say stuff like that without controversy because he's a privileged white guy. Sorry. I know conservatives would be giddy as hell to act like every day is a fresh new day and we all should treat each other exactly the same, but that's not the case. I know it's irritating. White people can't ethically do this stuff to black people, Germans can't ethically do this stuff to Jews, Turks can't ethically do this stuff to Armenians. Call it the Ancestor Dickhead Tariff...you get to pay the price for your ancestors' dickhead actions. And what a price it is, huh? As two white guys, I guess we'll just have to console ourselves with our much greater earning power, our ability to catch a cab at 3am, our smaller probability of getting shot or going to prison, our greater life expectancy, all of which I know can never fill the gaping hole that is left when John McCain cannot say stupid shit about black people.

You're a white dude. You won the lottery of life my friend, so don't get so upset when you see someone else find a twenty on the street. Now I don't know what I'll do with the rest of my three weeks you so generously alloted me, but I'll offer one final thought: I'm quite sure you're a lot more intelligent than the post you wrote, but not nearly as intelligent as you think you are.