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[fredericks]

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.

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[fredericks.livejournal.com]

I'm paraphrasing Chris Rock, I think, when I say "Obama ain't writing me a check!" Seriously, I have respect for the man but as I didn't run his campaign I don't deserve personal congratulations for the events of the 4th of November.

Although, I can't front, the random blacks dudes who greeted each other with shouts of "Obama!" on the 5th? HI-larious.