On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote:
> But I'd wager I have more personal experience to back that claim than > yours to substantiate this one: > > Btw, the destitute white underclass of the Appalachian mountains seem to > care quite a lot more about their racial identity than their class. I'd > think that this is a strong argument for putting more rather than less > effort into understanding racism and its deep hold on so many sections of > the white working class > Sorry but I don't think this is a valid or legitimate form of argument (which is another issue I have with the deBoer piece). Certainly personal familiarity is important and lack of such familiarity is reason for a good measure of humility, but I am not interested in some qualitative comparison of my level of personal experience with yours. You insert a link immediately afterward, but the connection between the > claim and the link is not clear. I suspect you may have pasted the wrong > one? > I assume you mean this one: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/4-in-10-choose-convict-over-obama-in-wva-primary/ It was no mistake. It is about some guy serving a prison term in Texas who filed papers opposing Obama in the Democratic primary in WV and then got something like 40% of the vote. This is the *Democratic* primary not the Tea Party vote. You have to be willfully blind to think that this had nothing to do with Obama's race. -raghu.
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