printAs the media told it, not voting Obama was tantamount to racism. By the same (twisted) logic, not voting for McCain ought to have been considered reverse racism. By this calculus, black and Hispanic racism far exceeded Anglo-American alleged racism. Fifty five percent of Anglo-Americans voted McCain, while 95 percent of African-Americans and 67 percent of Latinos voted Obama!
Some body had to call it.
Well done.
“Reverse racism” is a term invented by minorities to signify ownership of racism.
So “reverse racism” is racism flowing from non-whites to whites, racism in reverse; therefore, real racism must always flows from whites to non-whites. Whites are the only race on the planet who hate other races, and every non-white race hates no one and is the victim of (white) racism.
The term is in and of itself profoundly racist and its underlying logic is false. People who use it should be derided as the bigots they are.
Quick question: I was born in South Africa and I live here to this day. I am planning to immigrate to the US in the near future. Would I be considered an “African American”?
One major exception to the ethnic self-identity stuff – Jews. Barry Goldwater had a Jewish dad and Goldwater did worse among Jewish voters than any major party Presidential candidate in at least 80 years. John Kerry had 2 Jewish grandparents and even he did not do as well as B. Hussein. So it pays to have a Moslem dad to win the Jewish vote! Sort of like your column about leftish Jews. But then, the candidate on my ballot whom I was closest to ideologically was Protestant Reverend Baldwin although I paired my vote in favor of Obama and I am a atheist of Jewish ancestry! { Well. at least Barry Hussein is planning on closing Gitmo! }
One other thought – were the white people who voted (in Illinois in 2004) for the darker Alan Keyes against the lighter Barack Obama racists, reverse racists, or what? In fact, the whole concept (which the media and academic “Departments of Ethnic Studies” love) seems to be in a plane of its own beyond even normal silliness.