[I]f everybody’s racist, is anyone?It seems to me I wrote basically the same thing just yesterday.
The word is being sprayed in all directions, creating a hall of mirrors that is draining the scarlet R of its meaning and its power, turning it into more of a spitball than a stigma.
“It gets to the point where we don’t have a word that we use to call people racist who actually are,” said John McWhorter, who studies race and language at the conservative Manhattan Institute…
[It's] an easy charge to make against the rare individual carrying an “Obamacare” sign depicting the president as an African witch doctor with a bone through his nose. But it’s almost impossible to prove — or refute — assertions that bias, and not raw politics, fuels opposition to Obama.
“You have to be very careful about going down that road. You’ve cried wolf,” said Sean Wilentz, a Princeton University professor who studies U.S. political and social history.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Didn't I Just Say That?
Look at this item from AP and tell me if it sounds familiar:
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You are so good, they are 'copy and pasting' you!
Linda's right -- you're a trend setter.
I'm a fairly new listener to conservative radio. Never tuned in until President Obama told me not to (I'm kind of rebellious). So I don't know what the call-in comments were like in times past, but in the short span that I'm been listening, it seems like there's been more black callers.
And that interests me.
I think it's very difficult to be black and to oppose Obama. Lots of peer pressure (some of it coming from whites) to go along. And, granted, you often cannot tell someone's background from the sound of their voice. But some black speakers have a distinctively "black" sound. And I'm noticing more black opposition being aired on conservative radio.
It makes sense that informed black voters would question some of Obama's policies, and certainly radio anonymity provides a safe venue for airing one's views. When you add to the mix that some black speakers are not identifiably black by their voices, it raises the possibility that black participation could be higher than one realizes.
If I were black and I discovered how radical Obama's background is, I might turn to conservative radio to make my views known. Something to think about.
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