Good Morning
Posted by Peter W. Schramm
I have secluded myself today to finish grading freshmen papers on why Xenophon thinks human beings are so hard to rule, or not.
The TV is on as I plod on, and CNN just interviewed a black soldier in Iraq who said this to about the outcome of election: "Now I believe that everyone is created equal."
8:23 AM / November 5, 2008
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Is that the effectual truth of the thing?
That might be the good news. The bad part is that every conservative objection to policy can become a racial matter or a personal attack because of race. Then Obama can do no wrong and even if his policies and programs go wrong, it will be conservative opposition that is at fault - white racist obstructionism. Or at least that is the kind of political outcome I am afraid of.
To the previous point, this morning, I saw a favorite former student, (who is black) and when I asked him how he was doing, he said that school was not going so well. This is his third year in our two-year college. He said he thought that now Obama is president, he, meaning himself, would be doing better. I said I did not see how that would logically follow. He said I just had to believe that it would. I had no answer, but I smiled and warmly wished him well.
I can believe, or at least hope, that this settles some racial matters in America. I know I have said it here before, but if the racial wound were healed through this, all the rest would be worth it. We could fix the rest, politically, later.