was right. There may have been more than a few people who voted for Barack Obama not in spite of racism but because of it. I wonder how many people simply assumed that Obama, as Sen. Reid put it, a light skinned African American without a “negro” speech pattern was more intelligent and capable than he was simply because he didn’t look or sound like a rapper thus defying our stereotypes?
Did our rehearsed images of African Americans combined with then Sen. Obama’s apparent difference disable some people’s ability to critically evaluate him? An interesting thought.
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