They are also
uneducated, out of step with the rest of the country, to be pitied,
isolated, suffering in the area of “jobs, education and development”,
ideologically aligned with the old Confederacy, at odds with the values
of the rest of the country, and are getting what they deserve because
they won’t “… get with the right program.” Hat tip to Dan Cleary for making sure I was aware of this.
Or you could ask Dwight Lewis at The Tennessean. Lewis learned all this in a phone interview with “… David A. Bositis, senior political analyst for the Washington-based Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies …” He felt it true and significant enough to share it with all of us. The Tennessean evidently agreed with him. Why publish his lunacy otherwise?
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies is a misleading
name for the group. Per Lewis, the politics and economy the JCPES finds
worthy of studying are those “… of concern to African-Americans and
other people of color …” The picture at their site includes pictures of
Asians and Hispanics. However, reading through the headlines on their
site, the only people of color mentioned are either Blacks or African
Americans. There is one vague reference to “America’s minorities.”
This is the environment in which Bositis’ claims must be evaluated.
And what is Bositis’ basis for making such outrageous claims? It’s his
analysis of who voted for John McCain and who voted for Barack Obama.
He has lots of high sounding analysis. I’ll save you some time. Anyone
who voted for John McCain is all of those things in the opening
paragraph. Anyone who voted for Barack Obama is not.
No word on the character of Barr, Baldwin and Nader voters. Words
fail to describe how offensive Bositis’ words are, or should be, to
every man or woman who supported a candidate OBO, “Other than Barack
Obama.” Obviously, however, Lewis, Bositis and presumably some of their
readers and supporters believe this tripe. I would point out the
position of Lewis and Bositis are, on their face, far more racist and
divisive than that of any of John McCain’s supporters of any color.
Except, I must be wrong. It’s not possible for Blacks to be racist.
Jesse Jackson himself told us so.
When people criticize me for declaring Barack Obama is not my
President, I’ll take comfort in knowing that he is not mine, although
he is Mr. Lewis’ President and he is Mr. Bositis’ President. To all you
who want to claim Barack as your own, enjoy their company. Barack
forged a coalition he greatly desired to get him elected. It contains a
great many fine people who mistakenly believe in the untested, unproven
promise of Barack. It also contains a great many craven, twisted
racists such as Mr. Lewis and Mr. Bositis. Their bile and ignorance,
passed off as lofty and intellectual analysis, is rubbish if for no
other reason than it fails to address the rationale for McCain voters
elsewhere. That such thinking might be indicative of the actual change
and hope we’ll see as opposed the empty rhetoric Obama offered ought to
terrify Americans.
Men like Lewis and Bositis are destroying Dr. Martin Luther King’s
dream of integration. They are callously dividing our nation along
racial lines for purposes I cannot fathom. How any sane and educated
individual in 2008 can believe, let alone put into print in what should
be respectable publications, the notion that millions of Americans may
legitimately be labled racist and backward based solely on the vote
they cast is beyond outrageous.
I’ve read it in a score of places in the last 48 hours. I cannot help but repeat it here. It’s going to be a long 4 years …
Blue Collar Muse