It's About Whiteness
JR North wrote:
Shoot, where DID I put that sheet?
JR
hk wrote:
The GOP's last best hope remains identity politics. In a year when the
Democrats have an African American presidential nominee, the
Republicans now more than ever are the white folks' party, the party
that delays the advent of our multicultural future, the party of the
American past. Republican conventions have long been bastions of de
facto Caucasian exclusivity, but coming right after the diversity of
Denver, this year's GOP convention is almost shockingly --
un-Americanly -- white. Long term, this whiteness is a huge problem.
This year, however, whiteness is the only way Republicans cling to
power. If the election is about the economy, they're cooked -- and
their silence this week on nearly all things economic means that they
know it.
--Harold Meyerson
Perhaps you loaned it to Herring.
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