NO, IRSHAD, I DID NOT VOTE for OBAMA BECAUSE HE is BLACK, but BECAUSE HE is BLACK LIKE ME
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The Editors
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February 19th, 2010
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Category:
The Obama Presidency
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By Janet Singleton
For me to have the opportunity to vote for the sort of person, as president of my nation, that I would aspire to be is even more miraculous than the racial breakthrough it represented. No Irshad, I voted for the President not because he is my color but because he is my kind, if only in my aspirations.
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