tag team back again

already? yah. soon as i finished the other post. i remember something else ive been meaning to say. can we please stop calling barack obama the first black president??! first off its technically incorrect. the man is half white. if we want to talk about it, hes a mixed race president. second and even more important, its a step backwards in race relations to continually refer to him as such. i suppose the reality is that we still live in a heavily influenced yet nuanced, racially divided world. and i guess it does make sense considering the history of america. youre either white or youre black. youre either white or a minority. there is no in between. so in a sense the classic cultural definition of barack is that he is black. its just, how are we ever to remove the focus off of the color of a mans skin if at important moments like this we dont realize our follies and beat them back? see the future. i wish barack would address this. hes in the white house. less need for political games. but i understand he has more pressing matters at hand. tho what a significant statement and impact it would make. it seems like its really going to take another generation to wipe out the effects of slavery in america. after all the 1960s werent that long ago. i mean, you can hop on the subway and sit next to somone alive from that time. that hits me ocassionally. cant imagine what a world that must have been like. the good news is that we are getting closer. mmm. i hope all the black people that claim him tho, realize that there are now no more excuses. yeah. i said it. the remarkable achievement of president obama means that you too now can. yes you can. in that sense i hope that it particularly revitalizes the generations of impoverished, underprivileged and misguided african americans over and above the hopeful inspiration he brings to us all. light speed.