RE: Your “jokes” about starving a Black person, etc.; I’m still waiting for the humor in those classic cases of ignorance to come forth…they weren’t funny to this 46-year-old White man when he heard them in Oklahoma 30 years ago, and they’re still just as ignorant in 2009. I learned in years past that friends are not defined by color, religion, or any of that divisive arcana that you find hilarious; rather, friends are defined by what you would do for them (and they, you).

To Sister Toldja-Do not agree with your concept, in all honesty…but I have a question:

What would President Obama think if there wasn’t a true rainbow of faces there to see the culmination of a dream, and the triumph of intellect over racism?

I voted, as did many of my non-Black co-posters here, not because Barack Obama was Black, nor because he was half-White; we voted for him because he was the best person for the job.

Had Hillary gotten the nomination, it’d be another 4 years of “Where’s Bill?”, as in Who’s the next Monica Lewinsky/Paula Jones? If he managed to do the job while still doing the crap he did w/ Lewinsky, he’d have a heckuva lot of girl-chasing time in ’09, having no job to go to. There are still some who remember that Lewinsky deal, and it cost Hillary the nomination; that, and the fact that we still haven’t matured enough as people to elect a woman as President…Obama’s election eliminated one barrier to true equality in the electoral process. If we ever manage to elect a Black or Asian woman to the Presidency, then two more barriers come down like a game of Jenga in an earthquake.

As to your suggestion that no Whites come, I think you can see how few rose to follow your suggestion…perhaps because, as some other posters opined before me, it would be just as bad as a White person saying all Black people should stay away.

With this post, you slap the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King right in the face, harder than a soap-opera harlot…Dr. King was a great man, with great ideas; and now, one of those ideas took hold with the electorate and put a man whose intellect rivals that of Dr. King in the Oval Office…this is Politics Done Right, unlike our Governor, Rod “Cha-chinnnng!” Blagojevich, who exists as the latest example of Politics Done Wrong.

i like this post and will forever read your blog.

keep up the good work sistah!

1) No matter WHAT color the crowd is, a couple million people in DC, all of them THIS worked up, means trouble. If everyone there is black, and stuff goes down, all the blame’s going to go to you guys.

2) If white people all sit at home and watch the inauguration on TV, and see ONLY black people, they’re going to freak the hell out and think it’s a coup instead of a step towards unity, and then he won’t be able to get squat done over the next four years.

3) According to Toni Morrison, this will be the third opportunity to attend the inauguration of a black president.

4) It would be weird for a President to not have his own Vice President at his inauguration.

5) If only black people can be there, you’d have to deal with Barack getting sworn in by Clarence Thomas.

By the way, I personally will not be attending the inauguration. Voted for the other guy. Politics thing, not a race thing. If Michael Steele ran for President, I’d vote for him. But if all my white liberal friends that want to save kittens while simultaneously performing gay marriages and writing checks to Darfur want to go, more power to them.

Anyways, on a more serious note, keep in mind, those that would defend this comment with the voracity of many of those who have decried it, that we should avoid comments that are “divisive at a time when we need unity; racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems”.

It might be more fun to make this a white president vs. a black president thing, and to assume we’re always going to work towards separate ends, to say that this President is MINE and NOT yours, stay away…

“But I have asserted a firm conviction – a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people – that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice if we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union.”

So you can say, tongue in cheek, that maybe it would be best if white people stayed at home. You can say that white people are whiny, privileged, “snitches”, ignorant, or racist. And white people, you can respond by saying black people are complainers, victims, entitled, reverse racist, or angry. We can use the N word and we can call people YT, or any other derogatory term we can think of.

“We can do that.

But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we’ll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change.”

All quotes, if you haven’t gathered, were made by Barack Obama, during his Speech on Race, March 18, 2008.

This article is straight-up racist. The oppressed always seek to become the oppressors…look at the lack of understanding between the black community and the gay rights movement. Or the lack of political solidarity between the black community and the latino community, two groups who, politically, have everything to gain or lose by working with or opposing one another.

It’s always nice to have someone to crap on.

If your hypothetical “black people” can’t find a way to get along with all the other Americans who want to view the inauguration of their President, who represents so much to so many, then perhaps you have the wrong group of people tagged who need to stay home.

Me…I look forward to standing with a bunch of fellow Americans as *we* celebrate the inauguration of our new President.