I'm wondering if this willful distortion of logic is ever going to end. Look, here's what Cuban said: ...our amazing country once again reinvigorated the dream

I'm wondering if this willful distortion of logic is ever going to end. Look, here's what Cuban said: ...our amazing country once again reinvigorated the dream that any child in this country, no matter what circumstances they are born into, can grow up to be anything they want... It seems that "no matter what circumstances" is intended to mean, among other things, "black", since that is what Cuban is talking about in the rest of the piece. Presumably, since Obama is not a scion of oil money or an Admiral's son, he also implies that "poor blacks" will start thinking that they can become anything they want. I'm pretty sure that's what Cuban means. Now, if you state it as bluntly as possible, here's what you get: "I believe that Obama will inspire poor, criminally-inclined inner city black people to straighten up, study, work hard, etc." or "Apparently Cuban's reasoning is that with a black President, suddenly inner-city wannabe gangsters will start writing Rails apps." Now, that is NOT THE SAME AS SAYING "All black people are inner-city gangsters". That's a logical error, and your peers are upmodding you in celebration of your logical error, which pisses me off because that's how politics always works: Opinion trumps reason. The OP is basically right. But we'll just have to see whether Cuban is.