Letters to the Editor
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@deloresflower
In your typically meandering and verbose way, you actually prove my points. Your problem is that you think it's an insult to blacks to state the simple fact most of us are voting for Obama based on racial pride/symbolism when it is not. Is this one of those things I'm supposed to keep in-house? Sure, us dillentants here go on in mind numbing detail about the political minutae but, as I said before most blacks outside the bubble have no qualms at all about enthusiastically expressing the fact that they are mostly supporting him based on first black POTUS symbolism and not the empty parsing we've been engaging in. They are not as delicate or in need of intellectual purity as some here. There's nothing wrong their stance. People have been voting for their own ethnic, gender and racial group sine forever. Why is it a problem when it comes to blacks?
It's obvious that it makes folks like YOU uncomfortable but it shouldn't. Their reason is as valid as your long-winded intellectual vanity. Also, your "stats" further make my point. Namely blacks have long supported white Dems in huge majorities and now that we have have an opportunity to support a viable candidate (unlike your Sharpton exampe) in similar fashion, a huge majority are voting like crazy. End of story. You and some others don't like that being talked about in places like this because you all think it makes you look bad in front of white people and it plays into the "emotional blacks" bigotry, but hey, it's the truth and, though I'm meh on Obama, I don't have a problem with it.