Real life has kept me from my normal blogging rounds; apologies. I'll have something fairly juicy (I hope) later today. For now, let me simply ask this question: Has the ascent of Barack Obama worsened racial tensions in this country?
Consider this story, which has received insufficient attention. In North Carolina, Michael Lawson -- one of the presidents of the NC Democratic Party’s African-American Caucus (NCDPAAC) -- announced that black people should vote for Obama but not for any down-ticket white candidates.
Imagine the outcry if any white political figure made such a statement.
To be fair, the comment aroused indignation and condemnation within that state's black community. The remark came in the middle of a harsh internecine squabble within the caucus, the details of which are too complex to relate here.
Still -- what have we come to? I think that this sort of language was made possible by the Obama campaign's deliberate strategy of portraying the Clintons as racist.
2 comments:
Shouldn't he have been arrested for saying that, in public? Don't you have anti-discrimination laws in the USA? I know there's Free Speech, but even so, surely there are limits?
UGH!!!
Has Obama's candidacy worsened race relations?
Yes.
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