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“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.” — Geraldine Ferraro

For those that thought race was no longer an issue in America its been a rude awakening. While America has made great strides in race relations we still have a long way to go. I believe that despite how things may look, we are evolving, changing our thinking, and healing. It is not an easy or quick process but I see it happening. Is there a 12-step program for America’s race issues? Should there be one?

Senator Barack Obama’s speech on race in America courageously goes where people don’t want to go (at least it seems not in mixed company conversations for fear of political incorrectness). I think that many people forget (or don’t realize) that Barack Obama is biracial (he’s black and white). He identifies with way more people than Hillary Clinton and John McCain combined. So when people accuse the Barack Obama Campaign of playing the race card I think its ridiculous! Are there two race cards, a double sided race card, and/or a half and half race card and which one is his campaign supposedly playing?

“…I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton’s Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas.

I’ve gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world’s poorest nations. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners – an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters.

I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

It’s a story that hasn’t made me the most conventional candidate. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts – that out of many, we are truly one…” —Barack Obama

It seems that Barack Obama opposers are the race card playing culprits. Through imagery, symbolism, word play, clever semantics, and audacious statements the Clinton campaign has been using race card tactics since hmmmmm South Carolina. As an American I am ready for change. The more I see and learn about Hillary Clinton the more she represents the same. As a human being I am ready to embrace fellow human beings and breakdown racial divides, this is the change we need. Once again, Barack Obama demonstrates that he represents and believes in the very same change I believe in.

“…I chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together – unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction – towards a better future for our children and our grandchildren…” —Barack Obama

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