September 16, 2012
This is a presidential election year in the United States. Our current President is the son of a Kenyan immigrant and a white Kansan woman. His predominant physical features are light brown skin, an athletic and slim body, and mostly graying, short cropped, kinky dark hair. His deep, confident, and booming voice can be delivered with a slightly southern accent, and cadence of a southern baptist preacher, or the careful, hesitating yet persuasive cadence of a courtroom attorney giving a closing argument. For a person for whom the race of a person is an important characteristic, Barack Obama is a black man, a literal African American, regardless of the fact of his mother's Kansan whiteness.
There is a substantial percentage of people who are supporting Mitt Romney's Republican Presidential candidacy because they do not want to face another four years of the American Presidency being held by a black man. The proposed policies of the white challenger are irrelevant. Multiple millions of people will vote for him because he is white and Barack Obama is not. This fact has nothing to do with democracy, nor even common sense.
