Like many of my fellow white brothers and sisters, I have struggled with this realization for a long time. It is painful, and I wish I weren't so. But it's time to face facts. From Mitt Romney to tube socks, from the SATs to slavery--we are the root of all that sucks in this world.
That's why I support Barack Obama--because this suckiness must end, and let's admit the truth, for the sake of our pale children and grandchildren, we cannot afford four more years of honky rule.
And that's also why I was at first overjoyed to hear an interview Barack Obama, when he said his grandmother was "a typical white person."
What a beautiful thought: if all white people were like Barack Obama's grandmother!
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