Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Despite being utter brain dead and jetlagged, I feel I must rant in the heat of passion. CNN's dominant story's headline is: "Black and single: Is marriage really for white people?"

There's nothing wrong with that (other than the fact that Oracle never uses questions, but that's okay), but this: WHY is it that the general population of America, or at least the news media, assumes that there are only two "types" of people, or only two races: If it's not black, it's white, or vice versa. If 45% of black women have never been married, marriage is for white people. Not for Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, or any other type of people. I love Barack Obama, but he is part of this division of America on one racial line: that of black and white. That there is a "Black America" and a "White America" and that they two, however different, add together to form "America" as a whole.

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