Re: You are absolutely obsessed with race. What is it with you?
Ain't so much "with me" as with the US social fabric itself... As the NYT article below shows, it's impossible to factor out the "race issue" in analyzing major US crises.
White House Letter: Political recovery effort calls on black preachers
Elisabeth Bumiller The New York Times
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005
WASHINGTON From the political perspective of the White House, Hurricane Katrina destroyed far more than an enormous swath of the Gulf Coast. The storm also appears to have damaged the carefully laid plans of Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's political adviser, to make inroads among black voters and expand the reach of the Republican Party for decades to come.
Many African-Americans across the country said they had seethed as they watched the television pictures of the largely poor and black victims of the hurricane desperate for food and water in the New Orleans Superdome. A poll released last week by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center bore out that reaction as well as a deep racial divide: Two-thirds of African-Americans said the government's response to the crisis would have been faster if most of the victims had been white, while 77 percent of whites disagreed.
The anger has invigorated the president's critics. Kanye West, the rap star, raged off script at a televised benefit for storm victims that "George Bush doesn't care about black people." Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said in Miami last week that Americans "have to come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a significant role in who survived and who did not."
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iht.com
So, tell me Searle, who are the "race obsessed"? The 66% of African-American crybabies... or the 77% of See-No-Evil honkies? |
