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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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[captainschlumpy.livejournal.com]

totally!
another problem was that reporters were going out of their way to find the people that they could get to say they were only voting for Obama because he was black. I heard it time and again. They asked really leading questions and then cut the interview as soon as they got that answer. It was pissing me off in the truck at work and I was yelling at the radio. I had to pull out the ipod to get away from the stupid.
White guilt amnesty day! lol! I can see it now!

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

The whole "black people are very excited to have Obama elected" phenomenon as well. Gah. It's pissing me off again.

And I figure November 28th is the perfect day for While Guilt Amnesty. I'll see if I'm up to posting some macros or something then.