emotional this morning

[whipman]

For the first time in my adult voting life, I feel hopeful for this nation.  Nothing against ol' Wild Bill Clinton but he was a great guy and did some good things, but this is about a fundamental shift in thinking and acceptance in this country.  To have such an ugly campaign still come out with whom I feel is the right person for this job is

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[whipman]

I would like to point out that I am not a social science student or a policy maker for language in our culture. I merely stated that I found the term African American to be less than accurate and as such, useless to me. I really dislike my lesbian friends usage of the term womyn but I do not tell them to stop using it. As for for the post racial thing... I thought that was what we were aiming for. I am proud that I grew up in a house that did not make distinctions based on race or religion and that my children even more so. I remember my daughter talking about reperations in my exwifes kitchen and how much she thought that it was a silly thing to argue about... right in front of her black friend (don't know the friends name). I flinched a little as I was of an older generation but she didn't even think of it as an issue. I was very proud of her and of the next generation at that point.

Anyway... I did not mean to start a language battle here, just a personal preferance on the accuracy of language which I find to be lacking more and more of late.