Reply #49: That's the wrong attitude to have my friend [View All]

[IronLionZion]

impossible things happen all the time. Who expected Keith Ellison to win when he's muslim and Minnesota is,.. well,... midwestern? Even in Ellison's urban district, the people are mostly white and protestant.

The very white state of Massachusetts elected Deval Patrick governor. The southern state of Virginia elected America's first black governor, Doug Wilder, and that state has a long history with racism.

There was a time when you and I would find it unthinkable to be served at a lunch counter or go to school with the whiteys. Fortunately that's not the case now.

We miss all the shots we don't take and thinking something is impossible makes it impossible. If we think it might be possible, then it just might happen if we work for it.

The saddest thing of all is that even here on DU, we have to state our race when we make a point in this discussion. That means race matters. The credibility of a DU post ought not to be race-related.