A Few Thoughts

[Stealth Hunter]

Exactly 232 years ago, the Constitution was signed. At that time, your average black man was a slave on a plantation here in America.

Just 42 years ago, a black man could not drink out of the same fountain as a white man.

Now, a black man has been made president. Some said it could never be done, but now, now they've been proven wrong.

[baggygreen]

Given that there was a thread a few months back stating that white americans would be a majority, I'd have said it was only a matter of time?

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

Exactly 232 years ago, the Constitution was signed. At that time, your average black man was a slave on a plantation here in America.

Just 42 years ago, a black man could not drink out of the same fountain as a white man.

Now, a black man has been made president. Some said it could never be done, but now, now they've been proven wrong.

Uh, he's only half-black. Why do people keep forgetting his mother, who raised him, was white?

[Stealth Hunter]

But he's still black...

Part black, but still black.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

But he's still black...

Part black, but still black.

Huh? That's part true but all false.

[CCIP]

Well let's turn it this way:

Do you really think that even a few decades ago, someone of that skin colour would've gotten in? I don't think so. And I think in the case, this really does mean something.

[TarJak]

I take the point of the thread as saying how far the US has come in 200 odd years, but surely the mans skin pigmentation should never be an issue?

[Stealth Hunter]

Aw, the hell with it. You people are missing my point.

[Onkel Neal]

There was a point? (Just kidding)

But we still have not had:

Our first woman president
Our first gay president
Our first Mormon president
Our first Mexican president
Our first Terminator president
Our first Suzuki riding president
Our first Subsim player president
Our first polygamist president
Our first atheist president


OMG, America has a long way to go!

[stabiz]

The gay, polygamist, atheist and terminator parts are hard to prove.

Actually, all those are hard to prove!

[Stealth Hunter]

Originally Posted by TarJak

I take the point of the thread as saying how far the US has come in 200 odd years, but surely the mans skin pigmentation should never be an issue?

You win a cookie.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by stabiz

The gay, polygamist, atheist and terminator parts are hard to prove.

Actually, all those are hard to prove!

heh, the Terminator part is a reference to Swchartznegger

[stabiz]

Hehe, I know, but there might have been a terminator in office allready, maybe sent from the future to ensure ... uhm ... research in ... uhm ... terminatory areas. We all know that people in the future spend almost no time at all in their own time.

[Onkel Neal]

Ha ha. Stabiz, don't you ever leave this forum.

[stabiz]

Soon.:p