"The point I was making was not..." - Quote by Barack Obama
The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.
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“We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.”
“Together, we could open up government and invite citizens in, while connecting all of America to 21st century broadband. We could use technology to help achieve universal health care, to reach for a clean energy future, and to ensure that young Americans can compete - and win - in the global economy.”
“Why can't I just eat my waffle?”
More on Race
“Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.”
“If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play”
“I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.”
More on Social Norms
“There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.”
“Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.”
“... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose.”