Why can't we talk about race?
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| Wed, 10-15-2008 - 4:35pm |
I've seen this come up here and elsewhere. In the *very strange* thread about Obama's birthplace (or something like that; I couldn't follow the propaganda, quite frankly), two posters said that they wish Michelle Obama had not referenced race. (I don't mean to point those individuals out but merely point out their posts.)
In a country where race is a huge elephant in the room, I don't understand why we shouldn't talk about it. Of course this election is about race. For the first time in our country's history, a black man is running for president on a major political party ticket.
It doesn't have to be a bad thing or a good thing. But race is a factor in this election. It's not necessarily a factor because of McCain or Palin or Obama or Biden -- but because one of the candidates is black. Likewise, gender is an issue, simply because we have a woman on the Republican ticket. Why avoid the topic? Why suggest that the candidates or their spouses not talk about it?
Laura

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In every recent campaign over the past many decades, 90% of African Americans have always voted for the Democratic candidate (regardless of that person's perceived truthfulness) and they only make up about 13% of the total population anyway. Do you REALLY think this will have that much of an impact?
The Bradley effect isn't the only way to inject race into politics. I'm bothered by the fact that non-Obama supporters are continually called "racist." There was a popular essay that was floating around a few months ago called "Your whiteness is showing," for example, that insinuated that there was no reason to not vote for Obama- except he was black.
Anytime anyone criticizes Obama, the Obama campaign injects race into it. I don't want to spend the next four or 8 years living in a country where people are afraid to criticize the government and where the press doesn't do a proper job criticizing the government because we're too afraid to come off as racist. The press has done an abysmal job questioning Obama in this campaign. They have spent far, far more time on Sarah Palin and Cindy McCain and the Clintons
I'm bothered by the fact that non-Obama supporters are continually called "racist."
Just as Obama supporters are continually called "Socialist"or worse "communist"...both comparisons are broad and for the most part
No. I wouldn't.
Socialism and Communism are legitimate political beliefs. Racism is not.
What about Communist or Terrorist?
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