Now, personally, I've always advocated a color blind sort of system. If I had my way, there would be no overt acknowledgement of race at all and maybe one day we could reach some sort of color blind society. Of course, I should point out that according to some 'experts' in racism, that just means that I'm unwilling to acknowledge my own white supremecy. I can only assume that they could never have conceived of a non-white person taking a point of view like that. Is there a chinese version of being an Uncle Tom?
Anyway, the only thing that really gets my racial hackles up is the idea that members of another race are banding together to target me and mine. It's the racial identity game theory. If we all live in a color blind society, we all benefit. If we all live in a society where we all scream racism, we all lose. However, if one side plays the race game and the other dosen't, they reap huge rewards and the other side gets swamped. That's what I think might be happening in the current democratic primaries, or at least that's starting to become the perception of what's happening.
The black vote has been Legion so far in supporting Obama. Even from the earliest states, he was picking up an overwhelming share of the vote from them. I haven't seen a single state with exit polling where he's managed to grab less than a 3 to 1 margin. This is especially telling considering that he's running against Clinton, whose family has had the most positive and tight relationship with the Black community bar none among the ranks of whitey. Before this year, could any of you have named a white politician who had more of the black support than the Clinton's? Despite all that, The percentage of the black vote they receive has diminished from contest to contest. It's been argued, mostly by blacks, that no president has done more for them than Bill Clinton. That he was, in fact, the first black president. Well, what we have here is an example showing that those accomplishments are what are only skin deep, and skin color runs to the bone.
Seeing that coalition line up, I don't think it's any surprise that the white vote has started to shift Clinton's way with greater and greater margins. That's always our instinct when we see someone else vote by group or vote by race, is to do the same. If you saw all the women voting in a block, it wouldn't be very long before the men started going in march step. It's just part of our psychology. The problem with identity politics though is that it only gets more hostile and polarized with time. It's one reason why I loathe hippies in general. It always seems to be one of their first fallback positions and before you know it, you have complete cocks like this asshole race baiting for all he's worth.
Sometimes I'm just really happy that I'm neither black nor white.
