Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same
Negrophile points to an article on the results of those Republican poll watchers placed in predominantly Black districts in Kentucky.
Voter turnout in predominantly black precincts was nearly identical to last year's election, while voting in white-majority precincts fell 7 percent.
The only precincts that saw higher voter turnout this year were 21 precincts that were among the 59 targeted by Republicans for poll watchers.
Phil Laemmle, a political science professor at the University of Louisville, said he was certain backlash against the Republican challengers fueled the increase.
"What else could it be?" he said. "Did it do the reverse of what it was supposed to do? Probably."
…REPUBLICANS fielded challengers in only 18 precincts on Election Day, after some challengers were reassigned as polling officers or failed to attend mandatory training sessions.
Raoul Cunningham, former head of the voter empowerment project for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the controversy concerning the poll watchers energized black voters � to a point. But Cunningham said none of the candidates on yesterday's ballots sparked sufficient interest to get black voters out in droves.
And George also points to a discussion of the unequal treatment of Pvts Lynch and Johnson. Between the orginal story, all its subsequent mutations, the recent rape story that I'd consider if it were HER spreading it, and Pvt Lynch's own protestations of feeling used over the whole issue, I'd just wish the whole damn thing away. I'm DAMN sure not watching the movie, anymore than I'm watching The Elizabeth Smart Story.
LATER: Catching up IVb: Bell Rings Out, about one of my intellectual heroes Derrick Bell, links to a serialization of Soul of a Citizen at WorkingForChange. It will be published weekly, and they've gotten to the introduction in two parts, and chapter one in two parts.
These links are as much to remind me as to tell everyone else about it.
Posted by P6 at November 8, 2003 12:16 PM | Trackback URL: http://www.prometheus6.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/2232
I guess I'm the only one noting a bit of hypocrisy where the same people that see racism don't see anything sexist going on.
What about the male POWs? Why is nobody bitching about their not getting a movie?
I guess I'm the only one noting a bit of hypocrisy where the same people that see racism don't see anything sexist going on.
Possibly. Not that I would hold it against you.
Tempting though it is to end my comment thus, I'll say for my part:
1 - Sexism isn't my issue. Racism, and human and civil rights is. I may touch on sexism when it's an issue parallel to a human rights issue that concerns me.
2 - Men complaining about sexism is like, I have five dollar bills and you have two dollar bills. You find a quarter and I say, "Gee, I don't have a quarter…"