What a post-racial person sounds like: Okay, it's been a week since Obama won the election. I've heard more than enough sentimental speeches by the misty-eyed, but the most sensible comment was made by a black high school kid I overhead eating lunch with his Hispanic buddies: "What do I care if a black man is President now? I think it's wrong, all these black people voting for Obama because he's black. Just like it would be wrong if you voted for a Mexican because he was Mexican."
Out of the mouth of babes.
Showing posts with label Post-Racialism. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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Are gun owners mentally ill?
Some anti-gun people think owning a gun is a sign of some kind of mental abnormality. According to General Social Survey data, gun owners ...
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In the comments in the last post , some readers contended that Jews are not ethnocentric. Using the same question I used in the comments se...
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Via a reader at iSteve, it looks like this might be the vocabulary test used by the General Social Survey. (Someone please tell me if I'...
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I've been distributing a questionnaire to students which, among other things, asks them their religion. Quite a few have answered "...
