CJ
2008-04-27 08:05:16
Back in college, my friends and I referred to this as “Lee’s Assumption,” after Spike Lee. As in, “maybe I didn’t like the film because it was a bad film and I had no idea what the director’s color is.”
The co-assumption for Ms. Ephron is that black and female voters are free of hate since they obviously only need vote for the person who looks the most like them, without regard for shallow things like policies, experience or public behavior. This, of course, isn’t racist or sexist since only white males are capable of those sins. It also isn’t supported by the polls and statistics any more than Ephron’s assertion.
