News Flash: Not All Black Voters Think the Same
May 8, 2008 · Print This Article
Keith Woods, Poynter
- I appeared the other day on a segment of the NewsHour with the University of Pennsylvania’s Kathleen Hall Jamieson and The Wall Street Journal’s Gerald Seib to talk about how race is being handled in coverage of the presidential nominating process.
I raised two issues (I could think of 20) journalists need to take up, particularly covering the democratic primaries: dumping the race and class euphemisms that serve as proxy for a real discussion about these defining issues, and parsing the racial voting patterns in a way that’s more thoughtful and accurate.
1. Soooooo, according to Mrs. Clinton, “white folks” will vote for her [and by implication, not for Mr. Obama]. But this is NOT playing the “race card”! Actually, it’s the most recent “play” in a long series of such during her campaign! She is endless!!
2. “White folks” - you have “no brains”, according to “Shepherd Clinton”. You will follow her like sheep. Please “Google information about their behavior [in terms of something similar to their intelligence]. They are NOT so bright! That’s what she said about you! Baaaaaaad!
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