Thursday, May 08, 2008

An appeal from a dkos diarist

The west is ripe for a democratic revolution, and

Nobody here cares that Obama is black. Don't let the predilictions of some Midwestern machinists convince you we do. Obama's blackness isn't going to stop him from being our next president. If you harbor some deeply felt suspicion that it will, I submit to you that the principles of our party demand you keep those feelings to yourself and cast your vote for him as if you were color-blind. If we really our a country of racists, then we deserve John McCain. At least give all of us whiteys a chance to prove that we're not. History says we probably don't deserve that chance, but I'm asking for it anyway.