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De Verenigde Staten is gebouwd op racisme, anders had het niet kunnen bestaan. Eerst werd er genocide gepleegd op de indianen, de oorspronkelijke bewoners, en vervolgens werd ongeveer de helft van Mexico veroverd, omdat het van Mexicanen was en die werden gezien als inferieur. Even inferieur als de miljoenen negers uit Afrika die werden aangevoerd om het zware en vuile werk voor de blanken te kunnen doen. De conclusie is dan ook dat Obama het niet wordt, tenzij er meer gekleurden dan blanken zijn in de VS.

"3 in 10 Americans Admit to Race Bias
Survey Shows Age, Too, May Affect Election Views
By Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta

Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, June 22, 2008; Page A01
As Sen. Barack Obama opens his campaign as the first African American on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Lingering racial bias affects the public's assessments of the Democrat from Illinois, but offsetting advantages and Sen. John McCain's age could be bigger factors in determining the next occupant of the White House.
Overall, 51 percent call the current state of race relations "excellent" or "good," about the same as said so five years ago. That is a relative thaw from more negative ratings in the 1990s, but the gap between whites and blacks on the issue is now the widest it has been in polls dating to early 1992.
More than six in 10 African Americans now rate race relations as "not so good" or "poor," while 53 percent of whites hold more positive views. Opinions are also divided along racial lines, though less so, on whether blacks face discrimination. There is more similarity on feelings of personal racial prejudice: Thirty percent of whites and 34 percent of blacks admit such sentiments.'

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