How race may affect this year’s election

[babylonsister]

Difficult to snip; whole thing is short, worth a read.

How race may affect this year’s election
By Juan Williams - 04/16/12 05:00 AM ET


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A whole catalogue of racial fears was revealed during the Aspen Institute Symposium on Race in America, attended last week by a number of prominent experts and televised on C-SPAN:

— White fear of the increasing voting power of Hispanics, Asians and blacks. In the GOP primaries, the nation’s first black president was labeled as the “food stamp president.” He was charged with being a “socialist” and wanting to lead the country to become an “entitlement society.” This racially provocative language suggested hard-working white people being ripped off by lazy minorities. The experts see it a warning sign of the approaching racial storm.

— Black fear of a GOP White House out of touch with them, even demonizing them, as it focuses on tax cuts for big business while slashing federal spending on social safety net programs for the middle class from education to senior healthcare.

— Asian fear that China-bashing by the GOP coupled with anti-immigrant attitudes among conservatives will lead to more hostility toward them. They point to the now infamous ad in the Michigan Senate race that portrayed Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow as a pawn of Chinese masters intent on bankrupting the United States.

— Hispanic fear that the GOP’s near-certain nominee, Mitt Romney, will be hostile to them if he wins the White House. Romney has endorsed Arizona’s harsh treatment for anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant. He is also calling for “self-deportation,” and rejects the DREAM Act to give young people in school or the military a way to become citizens.

Charles Blow, the New York Times columnist, sees a racial clash already emerging in the fight over voter identification laws being pushed by Republicans.


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http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/221563-how-race-may-affect-this-years-election

[no_hypocrisy]

1. A new powerful voting block of Hispanics is why there hasn't been

progress in granting citzenship. If the GOP believed they had that block locked up indefinitely, the 12 million in limbo would be American citizens today.

[Jamaal510]

2. Whenever some knucklehead Republican asks why minorities tend to not vote Republican,

all I have to do is show them this article. Thanks for sharing!

[Cali_Democrat]

3. oh my...the comments in that article

Angry heterosexual conservative white males.

Juan touched a nerve.