>>>>>Justs watched it on BBC here.
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>>>>>Great speech. I envy the US their new leader.
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>>>>It will be that or: 'most of the people being fooled most of the time.' And I might ask what would have happened to me if I was interviewed before or after the event when Bill Clinton or George Bush were sworn in, and I remarked that it sure was nice to see a Caucasian white man be elected to the presidency of the United States? And yet we tollerate black person after black person after black person telling us "it sure was nice to see an African American/black man be elected to the presidency of the United States."
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>>>Well I admire your lack of openess and ability to remain blinkered grady. It serves you well in the northern wasteland.
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>>Don't get so huffy. I simply pointed out a somewhat deliberate inequity in the American media that should be addressed.
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>No, Grady, you pointed out your bias. Commenting that it was nice to see a caucasian white man elected would have been an irretrievably stupid statement considering that every president to that point was a caucasian white man.
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>After a couple of hundred years of white male presidents, I think blacks can be forgiven a little glee on seeing a black president.

You're wrong.