Some Thoughts on Whites Who Refuse to Vote for People of Color
Saturday, June 7th, 2008The latter stages of the historic battle waged by senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the honor of being the Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidency in 2008 election has shed unanticipated light on racist white people. Exit poll results obtained after several primaries revealed that a large, and impressively consistent, percentage of such citizens are, according to their reports, viscerally opposed to voting for a person of color. Our perspective of this largely shielded segment of the white community was radically expanded via the efforts of Senator Hillary Clinton. Faced with the prospect of defeat, she, and her ubiquitous, seriously-out-of-touch-these-days husband, launched a series of cynical ploys carefully tailored to win the support of this biased voting bloc on the basis of racial solidarity.