I think a good way to show one is current with news is to use a current example.
I understand that. I'm not saying, if one talks about this year's election, that one go out of one's way to talk around Obama's statuses, of which race is one. However, it is another thing entirely to be speaking about a current issue in politics with someone of a different status (in this instance, race) than oneself for one to then deliberately bring up someone of that status as a topic of conversation if that someone does not bear upon the original subject in a pertinent way.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2008-06-23 05:35 am (UTC)I understand that. I'm not saying, if one talks about this year's election, that one go out of one's way to talk around Obama's statuses, of which race is one. However, it is another thing entirely to be speaking about a current issue in politics with someone of a different status (in this instance, race) than oneself for one to then deliberately bring up someone of that status as a topic of conversation if that someone does not bear upon the original subject in a pertinent way.