Cmde Lacny opined:
> Doug Henwood quotes Gallup:
>
> > just [sic!] 21% of blacks believe Bush cares about
> > them
> >
> > Overall, just [sic!] 14% of blacks approve of the job
> > Bush is doing as president
>
> Those figures are disturbingly high. What did they do, poll Armstrong
> Williams 25 times?
What makes you think that blacks are a unified community with no class
distinction, holding uniform political views?
It is not really about skin color or cultural heritage but about class. The
skin color happened to be the manifestation and the marker of class
divisions in the US. It is not that there are inequalities because there
are racial divisions in the US, but the other way around - racial divisions
are created by class divisions. If there were no blacks in the US, the
class divisions would still be there, only manifested differently, perhaps
by ethnicity (Eastern European? Mediterranean? Asian? Latino?) perhaps by
residence (North vs South? Urban vs rural?) perhaps by look (slim vs obese,
blonde vs dark or perhaps having the "wrong" shape of the nose), or perhaps
simply by possession.
Wojtek
Do you really believe this or are you baiting someone? You can't really believe that:
"It is not that there are inequalities because there are racial divisions in the US, but the other way around - racial divisions are created by class divisions." (Wojtek)
I would really like to have you elaborate upon this. I am having a hard time imagining you really think this.
John Thornton