Skin color had nothing to do with Obama’s election

I voted for President-elect Obama, and while I do agree that this is a momentous event in the history of our nation and -specifically- racial equality, it irritates me to no end how this is being lauded as a great achievement for African-Americans. I hate to break this to you, but not everybody voted for Obama because they wanted to get someone into the White House that wasn’t another old white guy. Some of us voted for him because we agreed with his policies more than the policies of his opponent; skin color had nothing to do with it. There won’t be true, conclusive proof that racial discrimination is a thing of the past until everybody votes for the candidate that best represents them, not because their skin is a particular color -whether it be peach pink or obsidian black- to prove to themselves that they’re not racist.

J. Byron