Race shouldnt be an issue - but you know that it is. There are considerably few non-white males in politics (and any positions of considerable power) in general.
I don't mean to turn this into a race discussion, but Obama's election has considerable historic significance. To add some perspective to this, many people in other countries (only knowing about he US via movies and global news) didn't think we would elect him specifically because he was black - that we were not a society that would elect a person of African heritage. That we, as a nation, were not of the cultural maturity to do so. In terms of cultural progress, I think Obama's presidential election is one of the most significant things to happen in my generation. -- ME2 On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's the thing, it's not significant. He's just another president. > He might be a good one, or a poor one, but he's just another one. His > race shouldn't be an issue, right? > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr > <michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Heaven forbid people are interested and feel its significant because >> he's the first *black* president. >> >> -- >> ME2 >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I think either telling them to stay home to watch it, or to read about >>> it in the paper the next day would be useful. >>> >>> It's just another inauguration - they wouldn't do it for a Republican, >>> Green or Libertarian, would they? >>> >>> But, that's just my inner curmudgeon coming out. >>> >>> Kurt >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Walker, Clay <c...@bridgeportisd.net> >>> wrote: >>>> We are getting many inquiries from our teachers about streaming next >>>> Tuesday's inauguration to classroom. Unfortunately, our internet >>>> bandwidth will not support the number of those I think will want to >>>> stream the event (and this is assuming the media outlets' bandwidth will >>>> support it as well). >>>> >>>> I'm thinking I could setup an internal video streaming server (Windows >>>> Media Server perhaps) and either pull the feed off of a capture card >>>> connected to the local cable TV system or pulling it from a feed off of >>>> the internet and re-streaming it to my network. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately, we only have a couple of our buildings that have a cable >>>> feed in every classroom. I need to find a solution for the other >>>> buildings that have no TV option. >>>> >>>> Am I going in the right direction? Any hints or gotcha's to watch out >>>> for? >>>> >>>> I'm way out of my league on this video stuff, so any help would be >>>> greatly appreciated. >>>> >>>> Clay >>>> >>>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>>> >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
