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Originally Posted by JamesK
Nice arguments. It's people like you that give America a bad name.  |
What he says is not necessarily racist in and of itself.
What he is trying to say, and sad to confirm this, is that in this country, right here, right now in this day and age, it will be hard for a woman or a black man to get elected.
Currently black people are still a minority, and even then you are not going to get all voting black people to vote for a black man just because he's black, just like you won't get all voting women to vote for a woman, just because of her gender.
If you think of this logically, women represent 1/2 the population right?
Now you take 1/2 of the voting population being women, a certain percentage of those will be conservatives. In most conservative households I've had the "pleasure' of experiencing (and I grew up in a very right wing religious environment) the women vote the way their husband does. In fact the women think men should be in power. So you lose those votes right away.
I believe we stand a chance of seeing a Mexican president before a woman or black president, just because their population numbers will continue to increase, making them an eventual majority.
Now once again when you look at the black population, once again they are a minority, and I will leave you with is a quote from this elderly black man when we were discussing the Clarence Thomas / Anita Hill controversy way back then.
"Black people are like crabs in a barrel." He then asked me if I had ever seen crabs in a barrel, and I said no. "There is no lid on a barrel full of crabs. As soon as one starts climbing up the side and gets near the top, another one comes up from behind it, grabs it's legs and pulls it down trying to get ahead of it."