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

John Thornton jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Fri Feb 15 11:30:36 PST 2008


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



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