My experiences during this election year have made me far more aware of my ‘whiteness’ than ever before. I have found in America today, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of the black leaders and citizens try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor in this country; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with blacks in America, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be white first and an American second.

As a former Clinton supporter, the path that Howard Dean tells me to choose by supporting Obama rather than McCain, would likely lead to further integration and/or assimilation into a black cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.
 
You go into these urban areas in Chicago, DC, or Atlanta, and, like a lot of inner cities, the jobs have been gone now for 40 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Truman Administration, and the Johnson Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or drugs or gangsta rap or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.                 
 
This realization has presently, made my goals to actively utilize my resources to benefit the White community more desirable. 
 
The point I am making is not that Obama harbors any racial animocity. He doesn’t. But, he is a typical black person who thinks that if I see somebody on the street that I don’t know, there’s a reaction that has been bred into our experiences, that don’t go away, and that sometimes come up in the wrong way.
 
Is it possible that other White Americans share these feelings?
 
The result of 2008 is a social climate that almost perfectly mirrors 1968, and yes, it is reversed. Progress has been made regarding attitudes toward black people, but an over-correction is being committed. Today, while the media establishment is busy protecting black Americans from discrimination, they have turned a blind eye toward white people, women, and Christians.
 
Until Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream has been truly and equally realized, until the DNC fully recognizes that they have silently allowed sexism and reverse discrimination to fuel this year’s campaigns…
 
I say sorry, Howard Dean. NO DEAL.  
 
Senator Obama, you said we need an open dialogue on race in America. Exactly when can we get started?