Tuesday, January 29, 2008

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Let me get this--you'll pardon the expression--straight. To note that Barack Obama is black, whether as a compliment or a pejorative, is to play "the race card." On the other hand, to speculate that Blacks as some kind of transcultural racial unit are proveably, genetically inferior in intelligence is . . . not?

Posted by IOZ at 12:23 PM | email »
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11 comments:

fish said...

Yes, you have it completely correct. It is also not racist to assume that all black people will vote for Obama purely because he is black.

3:40 PM
TGGP said...

Playing would seem to suggest a sort of tactical maneuver. To note, as here, that Barack Obama is the Presidential candidate who is black (and not Alan Keyes) is not to do so, but to say that it is bad for him to do so because he is black (as in that same link) would be.

I defended Clinton on the issue here.

6:44 PM
Leonard said...

Your fuzziness:

Are you accusing someone specific of this perhaps-contradictory set of attitudes about "race", or are you just talking? If so, linky linky.

9:22 PM
littlehorn said...

"It is also not racist to assume that all black people will vote for Obama purely because he is black."

I sense some irony here.

If i am right, then let me tell you that people don't know what Obama is about: imperialism and Clintonism, both things which don't represent change in any way.

And therefore yes, they vote for him because he's black. Because his blackness gives people the impression that he's among the "new generation". And so as president, he wouldn't be a dick. Or something.

10:15 PM
fish said...

Your senses are accurate.

12:11 AM
TGGP said...

Wilt Alston uses "playing the race-card" to mean "trying to get my money", but it seemed inept enough that I would instead use the phrase "fumbling the race card".

2:04 AM
Anonymous said...

Is this about the Bill Clinton quote where he says: "Well, Jessie Jackson won South Carolina primaries in 84 and 88."

I saw that on Jon Stewart last night, and was disappointed in Jon's umbrage. I expect that reaction from Fox News, Time Magazine, Meet the PRess, etc.

On its face, what Clinton was talking about was campaign strategy, not race. It is implied, but its also true. Jessie (a black man) won a piddling primary in SC, then went on to lose the candidacy. Barack (who happens to be black) also won this piddling primary and will also lose the candidacy.

It ain't racist, its politics. And shouldn't we know by now, Bill is not a racist, but the people who want to see him fall on his johnson are (or are until they aren't, which ever suits the story of the day.)

I don't care if Hillary will be Pres, but c'mon, I at least want the Dems to put up a good fight. Again, the Press goes with a BS story angle to make them look bad (racist in this case,) and they slink back to the corner and TAKE IT. Where is Carville calling Bullsh*? Where is the offense on the perceived offence?
Politics are boring these days..and annoyingly simple-minded. I hope Bloomberg announces so its get interesting.

5:28 AM
Anonymous said...

I hope that cat (the black and white one pictured on the playing card) is spayed.

10:03 AM
The Promiscuous Reader said...

anonymous, "Jessie Jackson."

Who's that, Jesse Jackson's drag persona?

10:54 AM
Anonymous said...

On the other hand, to speculate that Blacks as some kind of transcultural racial unit are proveably, genetically inferior in intelligence is . . . not?

Did somebody (of note) do this recently, or was this sentence just a way to prove that you're a lousy speller?

1:33 PM
Isys said...

Tggp (in your defense of Clinton)

and while they may be correlated I don’t think anti-feminism entails racism.

It's feminism and racism which are more likely to be correlated.

2:53 AM

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