{"id":1638,"date":"2008-05-10T08:58:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T12:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2008-05-10T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T15:24:27","slug":"dem-party-line-whites-are-too-racist-to-vote-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"Dem Party line; whites are too racist to vote Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hillary made the comment the other day that Obama can’t carry the working white vote according to this Associated Press<\/a> report;<\/p>\n

In an interview with USA TODAY published Thursday, Clinton noted that the coalition of voters that supported her in the Democratic nominating contest had eluded Obama and would pose problems for him in the general election.<\/p>\n

Senator Obama’s support among working, hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again. . . . There’s a pattern here,” Clinton was quoted as saying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So that has generated a discussion that only allows Democrats because Republicans aren’t allowed to discuss race. Paul Begala, whose head most closely resembles an egg than anyone else in politics and Hillary supporter, told Donna Brazile and CNN (as reported in Salon<\/a>);<\/p>\n

We cannot win with egg heads and African-Americans. OK, that is the Dukakis Coalition, which carried ten states and gave us four years of the first George Bush. President Clinton — reached across to get a whole lot of Republicans and Independents to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The India Daily<\/a> completely missed the point and called Hillary a racist because supposedly what she really meant was that brown people are lazy;<\/p>\n

The non-whites not only include blacks but also Asians and others. She implied that white blue collar workers are hard working and other races are not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How’s it feel to be treated like a Republican, Hillary?<\/p>\n

The upshot is that there’s an inherent racism among working whites that would prevent them from accepting a black president. In today’s Washington Post<\/a>, Alan Abramowitz puts words to the thoughts Obama supporters have delusioned themselves with since last year;<\/p>\n

Obama continues to have particular difficulty with one segment of the Democratic electorate: white working-class voters. In the most recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, for example, white Democrats with a college degree preferred Obama to Clinton, 59 to 37 percent. But white Democrats without a college degree preferred Clinton to Obama by a 55 to 36 percent margin.<\/p>\n

To some extent, Obama’s problems here stem from Clinton’s special appeal to one segment of this group, white working-class women. And Democratic candidates have been having problems with lunch-bucket whites for a long time. (Just ask John Kerry.) But there is another reason — one that many discuss delicately — why Obama is having difficulty with white working-class voters: race.<\/p>\n

Racial attitudes have changed dramatically in the United States over the past several decades, of course, and overtly racist beliefs are much less prevalent among white Americans of all classes today. But a more subtle form of prejudice, which social scientists sometimes call symbolic racism, is still out there — especially among working-class whites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reason we won’t vote for Obama is because we’re racist. It’s not because we don’t know anything about him, or that he won’t answer questions, or the questions that he has answered scare the beejezus out of us, or his juvenile views on foreign policy – it’s because we’re not educated enough to vote for a black man.<\/p>\n

When I was in college, back in 1994, I was having an informal discussion with a PoliSci professor about Hillary Clinton. I told him that there’s no way I’d ever vote for Hillary. Before I could get another word out, a buttinsky female student asked me, in a very indignant tone “Why? Because she’s a woman?” I replied that I wouldn’t vote for her because she’s a socialist, but that didn’t convince the youngster, it was my underlying misogyny that kept me from being Hillaryista.<\/p>\n

It’s that same identity politics that has insinuated itself into the November elections. The only racism that will have any influence in the elections is that racist influence that will drive 90% of Blacks to pull the lever for Obama merely because he’s Black and the guilt-ridden politics of the rich white class who can’t bring themselves to vote against a black man despite his lack of experience or qualifications to be a leader.<\/p>\n

The same racism that put Ray Nagin in office after his lethal failures after Katrina. The same racism that returned Marion Berry to office after his stint in prison. The same racism that has perpetuated the culture of poverty and dependence in our inner cities for the last thirty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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