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[asterroc]

Earlier today I found myself wondering why everyone was calling this election a historic one.

...

And then I remembered that Obama's black.

And for the next year they're going to be talking about the first black US President.

And then the year after, or maybe the one after that, we'll have forgotten it, and it will be a non-issue for everyone else too.

Then we'll truly be living in the future.

Comments

[spazzy444.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear I'm not the only person who actually forgets about ethnicity.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Part of why I like the internet - you don't even KNOW people's races or genders until you've known them for a while. And since I get most of my news from the internet and not TV, I don't see as many pictures of the candidates as I do read text about them.

Edit: I wouldn't say I forget ethnicity/race/color/gender entirely. But they're NOT the most important part of who someone is to me.

[spazzy444.livejournal.com]

My brother made a comment about how his kids will be mixed (racially) and I said "They will be?" and his response was of course that his wife is Vietnamese...and I had an Oh duh moment. I knew she was, but in my mind she is just T, not an asian-american. I do this kind of thing more often than I think is normal - maybe its because I grew up in a very diverse area, or maybe because like you said we don't interact with people as often as we used to. Either way race just doesn't register as "important" more often than not in my mind.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Heh. It always struck me as strange when people said they wanted to marry someone "like them" (same race) - because there isn't really anyone "like me" (Asian and Caucasian). I've met very few my own generation, and seen maybe a couple dozen children. I'm not really going to find another person w/ my ethnic background, so what's important is finding someone whose heart and mind matches mine, not their skin color or eye slant.

Interestingly though, I've only actually dated Caucasians - moreover, only had serious relationships with people who had a lot of Irish in them, which I don't have any of at all! :-P

[spazzy444.livejournal.com]

Really? My HS was full of 1/2 Asians, but to be fair I'm a bit younger than you. I also think I had a total of 5 straight friends back then too...

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

My HS was 1/3 Jewish, 1/3 Asian, and yet I was the only halfling. *shrugs* I fulfill both stereotypes of nerdish kids!

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

It always should have been a non-issue, but I guess this is how that comes about.