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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC
The black community will vote in large numbers no matter what. But I think it's unfair to characterize all of them as being of the radical white-resenting Farakhan preaching left. I think many will be disgusted by what they hear and would realize that they were backing someone whose social mindset remains firmly in the painful past. Sure, Wright and Pfleger were pretty outrageous and controversial, but, as usual, people gave Obama the benefit of the doubt because those things were not spoken by him, despite the fact that there is every reason to believe that he espouses those views on one level or another. But to hear this nonsense coming out of the potential First Lady's mouth is just beyond the beyond! And it's not like Michelle has been some kind of retiring daylily in the press. She seems like the Queen of Mean, and that busted mug of hers does not help matters. The buzzwords "Farakhan," "muslim," and "whitey" are enough to deter any undecided voters out there.
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I'm so sick of identity politics I can't even describe it. If I hear the phrase "African American" or "Asian-America" (the Associated Press hyphenates the latter but not the former, for some reason unknown & unknowable to God & Man -- at Yale or elsewhere) or "diversity" one more time, I'm going to cut off my right hand & sight-read Ravel's piano concerto for the left hand at the speed of sap oozing down the tree trunk. I'm sick of people's congratulating themselves smugly on their ethnic & genetic traits. To get belligerent about it is only ten times as bad. It's time that each individual stood up on his own accomplishments (or lack thereof).
The single exception to all this identity politics **** is THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE by Conan Doyle. That's just plain funny.