6'6" Black US President petite flirtatious blonde white first-lady

What happens next?


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This thread immediately dissolved into a pissing match, and not without reason. It WAS provocative. But, I'm willing to be brave, and take on the question.
And, since there is an implied racial undertone, I have to tread very carefully. So let me say this: last year's election of Obama was helped by the fact that he was someone that middle America could be comfortable with, A well spoken, good looking mixed race guy, with a beautiful, brown skinned wife, and two cute daughters; it fit the bill. The scenario you mentioned in the title, no, too many white, middle class folks would not be happy. Sorry, but that's how I see it, IMHO.
 
To the rest of the world and the more thoughtful blacks in the USA the current President is not black he is a man of mixed race.

The only thing that matters as far as the US Presidency is concerned is the American electorate. And the "one drop rule" holds a much greater sway with the American electorate than is ideal.

Regardless of what the rest of the world thinks, a very large number of Americans view Obama as being "black" (not biracial) and voted for him anyway.
 
I don't really know why I'm explaining this, because in my experience, people who need things like this explained usually aren't going to get them anyway.

The other thread was a poorly-considered trainwreck in which nobody made any coherent statements. Dure is pointing out that some fundamental racist attitudes still remain in America, even if they aren't explicitly stated. The bit about civil war breaking out and so on is what is referred to as hyperbole, and clearly not meant to be literal.

Given some of Dure's theories he expressed in the 1866 Ango-French War thread (oppressed Cajuns in the American South, the Irish turning against the war effort upon learning of the San Patricios, etc), it wouldn't surprise me if he seriously thought the election of a black president with a white wife would lead to a lynch mob storming the White House or another civil war.
 
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