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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2009-02-24 10:37 pm

sigh.

I didn't hear the speech tonight. But I heard the local news station going on about it in the car on the way from work to errands to curling. And I heard one of the news readers say this:
America has come so far, hasn't it? We've got an African-American as president, and we've got a man of Indian descent giving the opposition response. There's not a white guy up there!
(And then her colleague said "And don't forget Nancy Pelosi, the first woman Speaker!")

I may in fact ("there are hundreds of white guys!") have yelled at the radio.

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2009-02-25 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
To say nothing of the ~400 other white men (and women) in the room -- they weren't "up there" on the altar podium, but neither was Bobby Jindal.