[lbo-talk] at least he's black!

[John Thornton]

Julio Huato wrote:
> Charles Brown wrote:
>
>   
>> Also, basically, because Obama is
>> using "race doesn't matter" rhetoric,
>>     
>
> FWIW, in his book _Audacity of Hope_, Obama says clearly (and
> repeatedly) that when he makes such remarks, he doesn't intend them as
> a description of what exists.  He says that people should look at this
> as in a split screen -- the world as is and the world as it should be.
>  So, these remarks are intended as elements of a vision for the nation
> (a la MLK).  He doesn't make an empirical claim that race inequality
> doesn't exist.  That'd be stupid.  
>   

Obama claims it almost doesn't exist.
He said blacks were currently 90% equal with whites.
And yes I agree with you that this was stupid.

John Thornton