Thread: The Racism of “Ethnic Political Groupsâ€

Opinion piece from Michael Cutler, Contibuting Editor for Family Security Matters.

The Racism of “Ethnic Political Groupsâ€

This article does make one think. Thanks for posting it.

Politicians lump people together as voting blocs because it works to help hone their forked-tongue messages. Large numbers of people in the bloc face similar issues, tend to reach similar conclusions based on similar beliefs or effects of the issues on them. Yes, such an approach is biased against individuals that reach different conclusions about the issue.

But it isn't just about race or ethnicity, there are blocs who organize around an issue, for example, especially strong supporters of Israel may include certain Christians and Jews; opponents of amnesty for illegals may primarily include Caucasians and blacks, and so on.

The article attacks Rove, who is a brilliant political operative. Yet it doesn't attack the other side, who admire Rove's capability and would operate as he did if only they had his talent. At the risk of being biased myself, the political class is more focused on winning for its side rather than working for our country. I am sure, though, they believe they must win to make the country go in the right direction--but then they have to start running for office almost immediately...

As long as grouping people by blocs works, politicians will continue to do it. When the block includes one race or ethnicity, then perhaps this tells us that for some, but not all, issues people may not be thinking independently.

Politicans didn't just pull their assessment of what many if not most Hispanics want out of a hat you know. Why do you think they pander to them? Here is just one poll taken about how important the immigration issue is to them and the proposed CIR.
I am sure there are many more polls out there that will support these findings.

http://blogs.ilw.com/gregsiskind/2010/0 ... oters.html

It's kind of hard not to lump people in blocs when you have stats
like this staring you in the face:

CNN cites in this article that 96% of African Americans voted for Obama. They also noted that 67% of Latinos and 63% of Asians voted for Obama. If you're interested.

The Economist, on the other hand, claims in this article that 95% of African Americans voted for Obama. (They also shave a point off the Latino vote as well, giving it as 66%). They also provided this handy-dandy chart below - look toward the bottom for the section dividing the vote up by race.

http://askville.amazon.com/percentage-A ... d=29649904

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