Call a spade a spade
"you've got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate" - Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania
"Race still matters. White working-class voters tend to be more conservative in terms of social beliefs and that is going to spill over." - Prof. John Russo, Youngstown State University
Translations:
"not ready . . ." = racist
"more conservative in terms of social beliefs" = racist
I guess the idea is that we shouldn't want to offend anyone by suggesting they are racist just because they wouldn't vote for, or date, or whatever, a black person. We'd be better off calling racism by its right name and not letting people off the hook because they're "not ready" for this and "more conservative" than that.
("So old is this expression that it wasn't original with Plutarch, who used it back in the first century when writing about Philip of Macedon.")
Labels: 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama, if I could stand it . . . I wouldn't be blogging about it, race, things that seem stupid to MWR (abridged version)
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