Not Separate But Not Equal

Alright so I'm a little disturbed... Not by my typical topics like love or anything like that but by something else. Racsim... So i was watching CNN the other day and they were interviewing people about who they would or wouldn't vote for in the upcoming presidential election and why. This one white guy looked square into the camera and said he was a Democrat who just couldn't vote for a black candidate! He said that Obama couldn't bring change because the only black person he had ever seen with change had it in a cup!! OMG!! That is extra disrespectful. It's 2008!!! In a cup? Where has this man been? We as a race have have come so far and accomplished so many things! We have allied our minds with whites not only for our own rights but also for the advancement of this country! It's completely ludicrous to say that blacks can only bring about change if it's in a cup!! What in the world? There are blacks doing wrong and not making anything of themselves the same way that there are whites doing wrong and making nothing of themselves (and Mexicans, and Arabs for that matter). I am a Auburn University student who is majoring in Broadcast Journalism and then heading to the National Guard to work on becoming a JAG lawyer. Is that nothing? I am a minister working hard to bring as many people to Christ as possible. Am I a nobody? Are the changes that I bring and plan to bring to this world a figment of my imagination? I know countless blacks who are doing great things and making a difference in many lives (i.e. my father and my friend Shaemun Webster and many more). That comment really offended me as a black man...but then again that's why he said it! Not to make excuses but the black race has been set back really far behind the start that the white race got. So now we are playing catch up. Some of us have caught up but others are still struggling. Being an African American man is not at all similar to being a white man in America. It's so different that you can't study black history enough to truly grasp it! The only caucasian man that i think truly got it was the guy who wrote Black like Me . Anyone else who says "Oh i have black friends so i understand" No you don't get it! You can't understand. You can't possibly get it! I have plenty of white friends and I love them to death but there are still a lot of ignorant people in this world. What if i said...that the reason the country is in shambles was because all white people have fried their brain cells smoking meth? That's cold right? It's untrue right? It's unfair right? Exactly! I'm not mad at an entire race only with ignorant people in the race. I'm disappointed with some things in my own race too but I feel like if everyone would just think before they speak and then if you are about to say something stupid or even borderline unintelligent then SHUT UP!!