[lbo-talk] Obama's inaugural address: make change our friend!

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Wed Feb 6 11:08:22 PST 2008



>>> Doug Henwood

I'm not worried, really. I'm just exasperated by this mass hysteria.

^^^^^ CB: I don't quite get how the support for Obama is more mass hysteria than the support for Clinton, McCain, Huckabee, Romney, Bush. All their supporters seem equally hysterical. Why the focus on Obama ?

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Re: racist America. People dismissed that Gawker analysis of Hillary's strength among Latinos and Asians, but there's something there, no? It might be time to update Roediger's proposition that despising black people is the way to join the white race. It may be that despising black people is the way to become Americanized.

DOUG ___________________________________ CB: There's probably something to that, but I'm a little suspicious of exaggeration by the media of the anti-Black sentiment in Latino and Asian votes, though I noticed last night they said Clinton's margin of difference was in those groups or something like that. I really believe the media tries to foment the conflict , though I don't mean there is none ocurring on its own.

On Obama having no trouble getting the votes of white Dems, he gets some of them, but does he get fewer of them than a white man would ? And of course, there will be white Republicans and Independents voting in November.



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