tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post204825364108100380..comments2024-01-20T11:56:48.682+01:00Comments on WindRose Hotel: Neo-Racism, The Left, and Opposition to ObamaS.R. Piccolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622464895435470724noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post-26102564641865965412009-09-21T00:22:05.649+02:002009-09-21T00:22:05.649+02:00I think it could be interesting to know what Shelb...I think it could be interesting to know what Shelby Steele thinks about the whole post-racial thing. According to him, there is an inherent contradiction in the way many Obama supporters approach that issue (from <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-oe-steele5-2008nov05,0,6049031.story" rel="nofollow">Los Angeles Times</a>, Nov. 8, 2008): <br /><br /><br /><i>“When whites -- especially today's younger generation -- proudly support Obama for his post-racialism, they unwittingly embrace race as their primary motivation. They think and act racially, not post-racially. The point is that a post-racial society is a bargainer's ploy: It seduces whites with a vision of their racial innocence precisely to coerce them into acting out of a racial motivation. A real post-racialist could not be bargained with and would not care about displaying or documenting his racial innocence. Such a person would evaluate Obama politically rather than culturally.<br /><br />Certainly things other than bargaining account for Obama's victory. He was a talented campaigner. He was reassuringly articulate on many issues -- a quality that Americans now long for in a president. And, in these last weeks, he was clearly pushed over the top by the economic terrors that beset the nation. But it was the peculiar cultural manipulation of racial bargaining that brought him to the political dance. It inflated him as a candidate, and it may well inflate him as a president. <br /><br />There is nothing to suggest that Obama will lead America into true post-racialism. His campaign style revealed a tweaker of the status quo, not a revolutionary. Culturally and racially, he is likely to leave America pretty much where he found her.”</i><br /><br />Shelby Steele is an award-winning author, columnist, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He, as well as Barack Obama, was born to a black father and a white mother, but, unlike the current President of the United States, he is not a liberal. At least not any more.S.R. Piccolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15622464895435470724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post-28351819873115457612009-09-20T21:05:25.690+02:002009-09-20T21:05:25.690+02:00Then it might also follow that one is a racist to ...Then it might also follow that one is a racist to use such valid arguments against such false pretexts to accuse political opposers of racism.. <br /><br />The word itself is becoming taboo. Use it, then you acknowledge it, so according to those who pretend to have the moral monopoly, you must be it.Mirinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14762774089637304953noreply@blogger.com