Posted by: Allen L. Lee
Comment: #1
Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:38 PM
It is interesting that you have drawn a conclusion of politics and race that I have also been thinking about. Though we both identify the actions I feel a different cause exist for such actions which I addressed on another blog. With you permission I will just quote what you said and quote my statement as a response:
Ben Shapiro said:
“There are 24 members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Twenty-three are Democrats, and one is an independent. Leaving aside U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., and two members of Congress who represent no district, the Hispanic population in the districts they represent averages 59.23 percent. That means that concentrated pockets of Hispanics elect Hispanics.
There are currently 44 members of the Congressional Black Caucus; all are Democrats. Leaving aside Senator Roland Burris, D-Ill., and two nonvoting, at-large members of Congress, the black population in the districts they represent averages 48.47 percent. That means concentrated pockets of blacks elect blacks.
The same is largely true of whites, of course. The difference is that whites elect members of both parties — racial identity is not bound up in political identity.
http://www.creators.com/opinion/ben-shapiro/racial-re-segregation-means-the-end-of-democratic-politics.html
Allen L. Lee said:
“…I've a similar ethnic mental approach to the terms, liberal and conservative. In the political since, they have no meaning for people of African descent in this country. They are political term loosely inferring that either the mainstream(White) ruling class is going to be inclusive of Black people or they are going to exclusive of Black people. The bottom line was that it wasn't up to Black people to establish theer position in American society. Eventually mainstreamers started to qualify the terms by sayiong things like:" I'm a fiscal conservative but a social liberal." Doesn't work for me.
It perhaps is another point of irony but worth noting per this part of my writing that most conservative pundits of the first Black president do not call him a liberal, they call him a socialist. It would appear that those terms are still reserved for a particular ethnic political constituency.”
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