Good, that's another McWhorter editorial I don't have to bother with
Though I probably will later this week, dammit.
keto at The Colorblind Society caught the editorial I don't have to read in the Dallas Morning News, on the topic of splitting the Black vote between to Democratic and Republican parties. As usual with the folks who make this suggestion, the sole reason he gives for this allocation of votes to the Republican Party is, well, it's there.
keto responds with a deftness I could come to envy and closes with
One last point. People are looking at this problem in the wrong direction. Constituents should not chase candidates, candidates should chase constituents.
Stop telling blacks to chase parties that don't care enough about their votes to work for them. What is this, welfare for republicans?
Why aren't republicans running on issues that they know resonate with black people? Surely they know what these are?
When people don't vote for a candidate, I blame the candidate, and his or her party, not the voter. I don't blame evangelicals for not splitting their vote between dems and pubs, I blame dems for not appealing to this group well enough. It seems that black votes are so worthless, people think blacks have to hold a firesale on them and beg candidates to take them. If candidates really want these votes, they should work for them. That goes for both parties and applied to any group.
…though I wouldn't have added the anti-troll pixie dust that is the last sentence. If I were his editor I'd strike it and remove it from the word count he gets paid for. But I wouldn't touch another word.
