Letters to the Editor
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@ xufapemu
I go to a church that is about 90% black. They came to my house one saturday morning about 12 years ago and invited me and I've never left.
I am glad. My old church, a Unitarian-Universalist Church welcomed people of all races, although they just didn't get many Hispanics and few blacks (but there were few blacks in that city and UUs are not really Christian in any traditional sense).
Where I live now (a small town in Texas), there is a Baptist Church that no black person would want to visit. I has many white separatists. And one black church actually has the words African American in their name, so that is rather intimidating.
Like wise, I think you sell people short to say the reason church is segregated is because of racism. It's more cultural than anything, and I'd bet 99% of the white churches in America would be more than happy to have black members. Your view of America is depressing and not based in the reality of 2008.
Yes, I know it is also cultural. However, that doesn't actually change the reality of what ends up being a sort of voluntary segregation.
I'm an old guy and remember way back. The young people I talk to today (and by young I mean under 50) simply don't see race the same way folks did even 20 years ago.
Yes, that is mostly true.
I simply don't believe white Democrats voted against Obama because he's black. I think most of the base of the party, (except black Democrats) voted for Hillary out of loyalty.
Actually, I preferred Edwards as the truer progressive. I moved to Hillary after he left because of health care and experience. Obama might have also had more of a chance of getting my vote if so many of his supporters had not engaged in to much sexism towards Hillary. You really underestimate how much of an issue that this is with older Hillary supporters. I am also offended by Obama supporters who want to paint me as a racist for supporting Clinton. I don't see the Clintons a racist. I think it is a bogus charge. However, I think it is one that the Clintons are pretty angry about and I suspect it has a great deal to do with the hardening towards the other candidate on both sides.
Once black voters saw that Obama was viable, they voted out of pride, but not out of hate for Hillary.
So how do you explain all the hatred of Hillary at TPM, at Politico, and here?
Blacks voted for the same reason older women supported Hillary by overwhelming numbers. A sense that history could be made. People some times vote identity. But there's a big difference in voting FOR and identity (black for Obama, older women for Hillary) and making a broad speculation that whites will vote against Obama because he's black. There's simply no evidence that that is the case.
Well, in Texas, even many Democrats are racist. That's just the way it is. However, I do agree that most whites younger than 60 won't vote against Obama because he's black, yet a large number may vote against him on the patriot issue. Lots and lots of people still feel patriotic.