Reihan Salam:

The fact that America elected an African American president is a tremendous source of pride to these [under-30] voters, I'm guessing.

This seems fundamentally off to me. My impression is that the pride in electing an African American - the sense of pride that America has done so - seems to belong more to the older generation. Those of my generation - the under-30 voters (of which Salam himself was when Obama was elected) - aren't proud Obama was elected. If anything, we're relieved. Some were confident he would win; others were afraid our country was too racist - but I'm not sure I know many people who were "proud" that we weren't so racist as a nation as to block the best man from winning in a time of crisis.

Does anyone agree or disagree with these impressions?

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 and is filed under Barack Obama, Politics, The Opinionsphere. Comments are closed; the conversation is kept as it was.