Letters to the Editor
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Ah well
Looks like racism and prejudice is alive and well in BOTH political parties, doesn't it.
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Obama volunteers encountering racism on the trail
Other salient headlines:
Racists oppose Obama campaign.
Misogynists have doubts about Hillary.
Many people enjoy coffee.
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"bloggers on the right see liberal media bias"
"In other news, a man was bitten by a dog, a bear shit in the woods, and the Pope went to Mass."
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Democratic Racism vs. Republican Racism
The fact that there are racist Democrat voters is not news to me. Of course there are, just as there are non-racist Republican voters. But they are not representative of most people in the US (and are less vocally against African-Americans than they are against immigrants).
What galls me is when a supposed leader in the Democratic party argues that people should vote for her in order to appease the racists.
An Obama presidency would demonstrate who the real minorities are in our country.
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well damn
who would have guessed that after hundreds of years of racial division, there is still some racial division.
It has been clear to me that the Obama campaign has been trying to keep contemporary issues of race out of the picture as much as possible, and they've done a great job. I myself am still waiting for that "An American President" moment. Obama's historic speech on race was a good start, but I fear that if Obama loses the general election, it will be clear that issues of race simply HAVE to be addressed.
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Two comments
COMMENT ON THIS PART: "Mike Madden ... mentions one voter in West Virginia who said his neighbors 'won't go for a black man... I don't think it's being racist necessarily, they just don't like black people that well.'"
If you don't like someone, won't vote for someone, because of the color of their skin, and that's NOT racist, then what IS racist?
COMMENT ON THIS PART: "The Post story does lack some context, though.... Sometimes, for all we know, they could even be just jerky kids out to prove they're big by saying something shocking and stupid, rather than truly representative of feelings in their larger community."
My take on the Post story was that it was largely about young people taking on a cause and encountering some harsh and unexpected reactions along racial lines. I did not see anywhere in the story a suggestion that these experiences were representative of the larger community or the nation as a whole OR that the individuals mentioned in the story did that either. What's the problem with reporting about people's experiences simply as events that occurred? Why does it have to be suggested that the story fails to achieve something it didn't set out to achieve?
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ku klux krackers
this is disgusting, but hardly surprising news. There is a deep vein of loathing for blacks (and jews, and Catholics, and, now, Muslims, hispanics) that is the base of the republikan party, and a significant part of Ray-gun democrats, who are no Democrats at all. They're not going to vote for either Obama or Clinton- they're almost as sexist as they are racist. Fuggem. The only candidate that might have smoothed over this wound, long unhealed, was John Edwards. Not gonna happen now. So, let the crackers cower in their little confederate corner, and let's move past them. I can happen. I believe the phrase is "yes, we can". Si, se puedes. And screw dixie.
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Today, in the War Room!
Summaries of articles that other sites have already summarized!
Salon.com: Read it hear first. Er, second. Sometimes third.
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racism
Many of the anecdotes in the story were about Indiana. As the article mentions Kokomo was the site for the largest Klan rally ever. My grandfather was born in Muncie and was a pretty bad racist frankly. I got the impression from the article that it was mainly older people who came of age in the Civil Rights era and before who were the racists, not "kids" trying to be shocking. I suspect that is largely true. I remember seeing interviews before the PA primary with old white men in smaller communities who basically said they could never image voting for a black man.
Obama will struggle with the old folks living in all of those rust belt states. He better hope there are enough African Americans voters in the South to offset those losses.
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The BBC reported similarly
The BBC carried a report this morning from West Virginia in which similar sentiments were voiced. One guy pointed out that he wasn't racist, but he thought older people would not vote for Obama. Another guy said he liked "Hilrey" but couldn't vote for a Black guy.
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Hmmmm
Certainly doesn't sound like he could have beaten Hillary by using race to his advantage, does it?
I'm becoming calcified on this point: either his race is an advantage (Geraldine Ferarro-he wouldn't be here if he weren't black, KateTex's constant assertions that he beat Hillary by "race baiting") or it's not (which might paint a dim picture of his prospects in the fall but lends credibility to the idea that he was victorious this primary season in spite of race, not because of it.
So, Shawn, Wes, KateTex, ProudTexasGirl: which is it? If he won by "race baiting" won't the same people who "fell for it" help in the fall? If not, is there an argument to be made that voters actually found him-and will find him-qualified to be president?
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racism
I think this article on racism IS racist. It's full of conjecture and is promoting exactly what the republican opposition as well as the Clinton machine desire which is to use the race card as the "trump" card in this election. Mr Koppelmans "story" is just that a story and not supported by anything more then stererotyping and fear mongering. Of course there's racism in America. Just as there is in all societies. This issue is no more a deciding factor in this election then Mccains' age. I think what is throwing the media off in this election is how much middle America is backing Obama. Mr Koppelman just represents the media as the third political party in this country. They don't represent the majoriety opinion in this country but their own self promoting interest which is to keep "yellow" journelism the main draw for their advertisers and of course that very small over-represented minoriety of Americans.