Running While Black
By Bob Herbert
I really liked this article from the New York Times. His idea overall is how the Republicans choose to play the race card during this race. The party chooses to "run low-life political ads featuring tacky, sexually proactive white women who have no connection whatsoever to the black male candidates." Also at the start of the race, John McCain's campaign stated "The American president Americans have been waiting for." The made me laugh out loud actually because of how crude the party was assuming that a person running for president was some un-American who decides to burn the Ameircan flag in his fire place during his free time. How Herbeert has written this clearly states what it;s like to be running while blac; exteremely difficult. Reading this actually makes me like Barack Obama a little bit more. Mr. Obama endures all of those outrageous accusations about him with a smile and comes back at McCain with less... What's a good word...? I'm not sure but Barack keeps his smile and his cool, while McCain and the Republicans play the Race Card in a game of uno.
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