They're Happy Slaves! ;)
--- ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>
> No you can't, coz I already did ;-).
>
> Seriously: I am not convinced by the [black people
> are as] gullible,
> etc argument. The analogy to white working class
> doesn't seem right
> to me because: the white working class goes
> [exactly] against their
> own interest (materially defined), even when options
> closer to these
> interests are available. Black people however choose
> one among two
> options, the one which is arguably the lesser evil.
> Also, what is it,
> 90% of black people vote for the Democrats, so it
> does not seem to
> make sense to me that we can argue that any group
> will have its
> gullible percentage. If 90% of fundies vote GOP its
> not because they
> are [simply] gullible but because they do
> [correctly] perceive that
> party as a better option.
>
> Miles asked about what the difference between the
> parties may be from
> an AA perspective and Andie gave some examples.
> There are others,
> such as the Bush administration's involvement of the
> government in an
> active role *against* affirmative action.
>
> --ravi
>
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