[lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: Pinch Me ...a message from Michael Moore
- From: "Paul Stone" <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:32:53 -0500
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Simon Ward <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "America elected a black President." Oh really? Not just a president?
>
> If there was no societal gap between races, there would be no difference
> between a white and a black president. If blacks did not make up a
> disproportionate share of the prison population, if they did not make up a
> disproportionate share of the poorest, if they did not make up a
> disproportionate share of gang murders, if they did not make up the a
> disproportionate share of many social ills, then the election of a black
> president would be no big thing. If you can show that not one white voter
> chose McCain because Obama is black or that so many blacks voted for Obama
> because he is black, then it would be no big thing.
It doesn't matter, the fact is that a proportion of 240 million White
Americans (who voted) elected Obama president, decidedly. Sure there
were your Texas, Bammy, Arkansas etc. where you're right, no good
white trash man in his right hooch-addled mind would vote for a
neegra! But the Black population of the whole of the USA is only like
12% or something like that, and that's including every last one, kids,
etc. and while they DID vote overwhelmingly for Obama, it was only
about 3% more than the same group for Kerry or Gore and Clinton got
even higher numbers -- it's a democratic thing for that demographic --
who needs and wants "HELP". Now, hopefully, they'll get it, but also,
hopefully, not more than anyone else who 'needs' it. So... in the end,
racism is not really a factor like everyone says it is... It's a
'happy week' as Eric calls it because it's NOT about Race. It's about
Obama being elected, like he should have been in the race that he ran,
not that he was.
paul
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