Look at all these descriptors of assumed white voters:
- latte-drinking liberals
- blue collar voters
- lunch bucket voters
- hardworking working-class voters
- soccer moms
- NASCAR dads
- values voters
- suburbanites
- conservatives
- churchgoers
On Wordcraft, neveu recently used the phrase: " elitist Volvo-driving latte-sipping San Francisco-values not-real-Americans-like-NASCAR-fans-are people." Again, that's not a decriptor of African Americans.
Of course an African American could be a churchgoer or a blue collar voter, but Trice is right, I believe, that they are thought to be white voters. I wonder why the media lumps all the black voters together. Or do they? Are Trice and I too sensitive?
I don't think so, and, as a white, I think that it's insulting.
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I think lumping people into groups like that is generally going to be bigoted. Sometimes its about race, sometimes its about other factors. I think there is probably still a group of African-Americans who are going to vote based on what they think will be best for "the people" of their race. That doesn't mean, of course, that all Af-Ams will do so, but it does lead the political folks to use terms like "the black vote" just like they will say "the women's vote".
Yes, I think that was the point of the column. Let's quit the lumping.
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