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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 2:02 PM, rayzentz AT aim.com wrote:

> Obama has had several hills to climb, most especially having a black
> father and a white mother. His judgement appears to have surmounted
> all of those hills.
>
> > Which was the problem?   The white mother?   or the black father?

Many people are prejudiced against black people for one or more  
reasons. Many of those people, and many others, have strong, negative  
feelings against mixed-race marriages. A child of such marriages has  
that negativity to live with.

But I think you know that.