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• It's difficult to understand how it is that there are people who believe we live in a post-race, post-sexist, post-anything society. Though the candidacy of a woman and election of an African American man are undeniably steps in the right
  (posted to Obama Elected President; Racial Barrier Stands)
• wtf is right!
  (posted to Obama Elected President; Racial Barrier Stands)
• Your words were so eloquent and touching. When you said, "But the erasure of these distinctions from my identity forced me to see who I was beyond those labels, to become a whole person," I thought how much of a
  (posted to Thoughts on Prop 8--From Someone Who's Been There (Twice))

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• 1. To be so willfully ignorant about the role race plays in this society, it's pretty damn obvious that you are white. 2. If that's all you came away with after reading such a poignant piece, then there's really no (posted to Obama Elected President; Racial Barrier Stands)
• 1. I am not white. 2. That's not all I came away with, but I thought it would have been important information with the story. 3. I asked you to explain why you used a certain dismissive phrase to me (posted to Obama Elected President; Racial Barrier Stands)
• "To be so willfully ignorant about ..., it's pretty damn obvious that you are Asian." "To be so willfully ignorant about ..., it's pretty damn obvious that you are Latino." "To be so willfully ignorant about ..., it's pretty damn (posted to Obama Elected President; Racial Barrier Stands)
• 3. I asked you to explain why you used a certain dismissive phrase to me and your response is "It's too complicated"? Oh well. I've given you resource after resource after resource, and all you've given me are strawmen. I'm (posted to Obama Elected President; Racial Barrier Stands)
• You proved that change can happen. You built an unprecedented grassroots organization in all 50 states that brought a record number of people into the political process -- many for the first time, many for the first time in a (posted to Obama Elected President; Racial Barrier Stands)

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