Is It a Race/Sex Race?
On today’s show we heard pretty much every opinion on the race factor in yesterday’s Pennsylvania Democratic primary. At least I think we did.
I find it really strange that everyone seems to take for granted that black people are voting for Obama. We know that they are, but don’t you remember when the media was all but taunting Obama because he was only attracting about one-fifth or less of the black vote? It wasn’t until February that blacks actively started favoring Obama.
I think white and black people deserve more respect for their choices of nominee than we generally give them, at least as far as this Democratic race goes. I do think that the merits of the candidates are the main factor — the only problem is both candidates completely lack merit. So maybe, given that, the only real factors are race and sex. Who knows. Does this view make me “retarded”?
Okay, I tried to call in on this one today but I couldn’t wait on hold. This is starting on the race-side:
Blacks get 37.2% of the total amount of welfare paid out in this country while only making up 12% of the population.
What drives some people nuts is that many of the current and past democrats use the scare tactic of "whitey is coming to take away your welfare and other benefits" in order to get more votes. My newest favorite is that whitey is disenfranchising the black vote by requiring ID at the polls… or that whitey is disenfrachising potential black voters because so many are convicted felons (um, constitution anyone?).
Now the same message to the hispanics is that the republicans hate you and your kind. All they want to do is be racist and build a fence so that your kind can’t get in. Is it not obvious to everyone else that the left is not doing a thing (openly) about the illegal immigration problem so that they can use that as a way to ensure they will get their class’ votes later?
In the past we have talked about "sheeple". I am finding that many people get behind some "leader" (and I use that term loosely) and do whatever they say. It seems as if Jesse, Al Sharpton, and others have made up the mind of many millions of black voters. Enough with the pandering.
(Note, I can start with the right using the NRA and Catholic nut-jobs, but that isn’t entirely topical)
I was gritting my teeth listening to the conversation yesterday about "Obama & Elitism." Several of the callers were correct that Obama is an arrogant, elitist, condescending prick. But of course Pete reinforced the view of the urban East Coast areas with his commentary.
Pete basically said something to the effect of, "I think it’s true that rural Americans don’t get it. When you grow up in a community where everyone is the same, you are more vulnerable to racism and reacting negatively to unfamiliar people and ideas." His overall message was that exposure to "diversity" makes you a better, more enlightened person. In anticipation of someone pouncing on something above, let me state that I am paraphrasing Pete’s words. I didn’t hold a tape recorder up to the phone and transcribe the show, so you will have to forgive me for summarizing.
My response to Pete’s message is that it only reaffirms the arrogance and elitism Barack Obama (and many other politicians to be fair) has been accused of. When someone says rural Americans don’t "get it," what exactly is it that they don’t get? Do people in urban areas really think Middle America is so haplessly insulated from reality? Perhaps it is more appropriate to say those people are insulated from reality. I was born in a small rural South Texas town, raised in a nearby town of 8,000 people, got a 4 year degree, lived in Houston, then Philadelphia, and now Madison, WI. I have travelled to NYC, San Francisco, and the rural South. Let me tell you I will take a small traditional community ANY DAY over the East Coast urban slums I’ve seen, as well as the hostile attitudes that dominate in such places. I’ve never seen racism any worse than I saw in the Philadelphia area. No one is flying the Confederate flag, but all you have to do is look at white neighborhoods in West Chester, King of Prussia, and all along the Mainline…. then compare them to Chester and inner city North Philadelphia. You might as well be travelling to two different countries. I’ve never seen more jaded people in my life. Now back in the midwest, people in Madison are far to the left of where I grew up but still basically laid back folks.
Many of us from small towns who "cling" to our traditional values know all about how life in Manhattan operates. We have personally rejected it, but fully support the right of others to choose it. I’m only 34 years old, so I’m not some out of touch old man. I grew up hunting, didn’t go to church much but I believe in God. The only gun I own is a .38 to protect myself from anyone who thinks it’s his right to walk into my house and take my shit (or my family’s life). I don’t listen to much country music and don’t own a cowboy hat or boots. It would be pretty tough to classify me as a hayseed, even though I have no use for the leftist ideas of the Northeast.
This post is way too long, but I never would have got these words out on the phone with Pete. I’m tired of the "that’s not what I said" tactic. We are human beings blessed with the power of inference. Pete, when you say "we don’t get it," it’s valid to infer that as arrogant and elitist.