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Something Real Quick
I gotta get to school, but I wanted to hip you all to yesterday’s Democracy Now!, which featured a very interesting discussion about Rev. Wright. I had a TYFST (“Thank you for saying that”) moment after reading this comment from Melissa Harris-Lacewell:
[Obama] has built a national, multiracial, intergenerational coalition of men and women, working class and wealthy people. That is what has happened, whereas the other two candidates, John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton, have mostly built largely, vastly predominantly white coalitions. And yet, they’re not having to answer questions on race.
I’m getting really sick of hearing everything Obama-related put in terms of race, and everything for everyone else (especially every discussion of every other election) in race-neutral terms. It’s as though “white voters” was never a significant portion of the electorate before.
I’m just waiting for the day when white people are no longer in the majority in this country. Then maybe we’ll have some actual discussion about how we can all come together.
Okay, I gotta go to school.
