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From The Onion's Sport Section: Kobe Bryant Scores 25 In Holy Shit We Elected A Black President.

And from this week's NY Times: New York Observed: That Certain Feeling. The random congratulations from folks and the awkward (for me, at least) politico conversations with my white patients have fallen off as we move further away from Election Week, but the author hits on everything that ran through my mind at those times.

Here I was thinking I was original when I brought up Obama and "magical negro" in the same breath, but a Google search and the Wiki page showed me what was what. Gotta love the zeitgeist.

Comments

[army-kitten.livejournal.com]

yeah, totally. i think the reason most people keep hollering that racism must be over now that we have a black president is that they want to believe that they don't have any work left to do in terms of changing society and themselves. because it's hard work.

and for those people who are freaked out about backlash, it seems like it could be a really good thing to see a lot of the white supremacist groups come out of the woodwork where they've been hiding (well, more or less). the more they're out in the open, the less people can deny they still exist (and the less people can deny there's still work to do).

not like it's not still gonna suck. but i guess we will just have to wait and see.