A Comment About

Backlash Against Media Smears in the Heartland

May 16, 2008 - 12:40 am - by Ari J. Kaufman
Dave
2008-05-16 15:54:30

John-”90% is not surprising, and it is not “racist” either.”

No??? You said yourself in the previous post that the reason they vote for him now is because he is the first “viable” Democrat candidate for PRESIDENT…(emphasis on PRESIDENT because he’s the first viable BLACK candidate for that high office!)

Doesn’t the fact, ALONE, that blacks would vote for him ONLY for that reason…regardless of their own personal misgivings or political persuasions about the man…PROVE they are voting for him on RACE alone, i.e., they are “racist”? And if whites can be accused of NOT voting for the man because he is black…and they are “RACIST”, why is not the opposite side of the coin also true???

Actually, I do take your point though. I would add I probably think it’s about the same, percentage-wise, of both blacks and whites that are voting for or against Barack soley because of race, and in both cases…a small minority. Given historical black %’s of democratic voting patterns, that added small minority on the black side looms large like 90%…

But voting FOR or AGAINST the man based on race alone…is “racist”…pure and simple.