Reply #87: If "America isn't ready for a black president."

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then I'm ready to turn in my passport and change my nationality. If I really believed that the vast majority of Americans were that ass backwards I'd be too ashamed to call myself an American. I believe we're better than that. I believe most of us are willing to let go of ridiculous prejudices about race and gender. Sure there are always going to be neanderthals who won't get it but I refuse to believe that anything even close to the majority of us feels that way. And omg I'm from Iowa where everyone is white and a bigot (which is a bullshit stereotype).

We're absolutely ready for a Black or Hispanic or Female or whatever president. I think maybe we're still a little bit too close to 911 to be ready for a Muslim president but eventually we'll be there too.

Maybe I'm living in a dream world but I feel like anyone who claims that "we're not ready" is selling short the intelligence of the nation at large.