Comments on: Chasing The Rainbow: Is Racial Healing Within Our Reach?

By: VJBinCT

VJBinCT — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:11:42 +0000

From an historical personal vantage point (my first presidential election was in 1972), I simply did not care for Jesse J. Too ‘hot’ a rhetoric for that ‘cool’ medium, TV, like the early Sharpton, and I’m sorry, but he reminded too much of a strutting bantam rooster. I have been a life-long liberal with a specific interest in civil rights (though not the activist I should have been), and while I agreed with his message mostly, his style simply rubbed me the wrong way. Now, I might view his early self differently. However, Barack Obama is very different in style, the very definition of cool. Jesse and Barack should not be properly used for comparison without noting their disparity in style. I certainly can’t claim to analyze Appalachian voters, who are lower-information than the national average, and possibly a bit more racist. Given enough time, I think Obama could win over a large minority of voters in WV, KY, and western PA, but that will have to wait till after the convention. It would be worth in effort IMHO. He is such an appealing and charming, non-scary guy. My immediate family is almost totally color-blind, I think, but certainly elite, and possibly elitist, though we try not to be. Style is important, I’ve known poor folk with incredible dignity and style, whom I like and respect; and loathsome rich folk with neither, whom I do not.

By: BooRadley

BooRadley — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:34:13 +0000

Thanks Isaiah for finding some good in what happened in WV.

By: BargainCountertenor

BargainCountertenor — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:34:01 +0000

And the GOoPers occupy the shallow end of the jean pool.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:10:21 +0000

American DNA would explain why we are so into jeans.

By: Isaiah Poole

Isaiah Poole — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:03:43 +0000

Hate those typos. Thanks.

By: Isaiah Poole

Isaiah Poole — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:01:10 +0000

Huh? There’s such a thing as “American DNA”? Since, as far as I can determine genetically, my ancestors are from somewhere in south-central Africa and there is no white American blood in my lineage, how much of this American DNA might I have? If none, is this why I am susceptible to European command-and-control economic ideas?

By: DeanOR

DeanOR — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:00:52 +0000

short version: “We need help, not hope”.

By: selise

selise — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:43:38 +0000

thanks! fingers crossed!

By: BargainCountertenor

BargainCountertenor — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:43:14 +0000

Private plans have a 30% overhead in part because most of them have shareholders who must be paid dividends.

By: BargainCountertenor

BargainCountertenor — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:41:42 +0000

Okay. I need to start assembling that stuff anyway.