I think truthfully that it is simpler than all that. In a trying economy, many people retrench to "mine".
And many people use race as a "mine vs theirs" determining factor. In an expanding economy, where there is plenty of pie for everyone, people tend to be more magnanimous, forgiving, and able to see past small family groups. I truly believe that most of our current political problems are directly related to "the economy, stupid". If we ever get that engine righted, a lot of the intrusive government will fall away (as people have less time to snoop, too busy counting their money and shopping for a bigger TV at Walmart), racial and ethnic and immigration issues ease, violence goes down, and all becomes sweetness and light. Ah, can you tell it is Friday after a long, long week? Jerry On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://goo.gl/xKHD > > "Only 39 percent of American voters think black-white relations are > improving< > http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/october_2010/voters_are_much_less_optimistic_about_black_white_relations > >. > And that's the optimists: Thirteen percent of black voters think race > relations <http://gawker.com/tag/racerelations/> are getting better. > What's > the deal, America? Haven't you noticed our black president? > > (Or, maybe, the problem is that everyone *did* notice our black president, > but not in a nice way? And then a small but loud group of white people > started insinuating that he is actually some kind of foreigner, and > emailing > each other explicitly racist jokes? And that small but loud group is > actually one of our two major political parties? Just speculating, though! > It could just be that black folks are intractably pessimistic.) " > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328867 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
