 Barack Obama: Attracts spotlight in race relations
Barack Obama has captured spotlights more and more with the passage of time. All the Americans across racial and ethnic lines said that the groundbreaking candidacy of Barack Obama has highlighted the state of race relations in the United States and also changed it.
More news about Barack Obama has been inferred from quite a number of sources. According to them, a nationwide survey has explored the complicated crosscurrents of race and politics that has been co-sponsored by various organizations like USA TODAY, ABC News and Columbia University. It has been found out that the first nomination of Barack Obama, an African American for president by a major party has prompted a surge in national pride and political engagement amongst blacks.
It also has shown a clear consensus amongst various people like whites, blacks and Hispanics about the top priorities for the next president, especially when it comes to the economy.
Fredrick Harris, the director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society at Columbia, said that the poll results might signal "the passing of a generation" as several black people move towards "race-neutral" solutions to economic and other challenges.
Seven in 10 blacks expect Barack Obama to win in the month of November. Amongst 13% who has given the prediction that Republican John McCain will prevail, racism is the reason most often cited. Also 50% of whites that expect McCain to win are most likely to cite the levels of experience of the candidates as the reason. Only 5% of whites who are assured of victory of McCain will win and has called racism as the key factor.
"Especially with the economy the way that it is, the fact that we're in two wars — I don't necessarily think that people will choose somebody who really doesn't have all that much experience," said twenty two year old Andrew Dufkin, a student and painter from Coxsackie, N.Y., who is also a white. He was amongst those who were called in the survey.
However, sixty five year old Lee Rutledge, a freelance writer from Riverside, Calif., who is also a black, commented that racism "is always kind of lurking in the background," although the "Whites Only" signs he saw when stationed by the Army in Georgia in 1964 are a thing of the past. |
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