The Price of Race-baiting

The Price of Race-baiting

In the days of the Willie Horton ad and Jesse Helms' re-election campaigns, a healthy garnish of racial fear would almost guaranteed an election victory for the offending party.

Put dark flesh in an ad, allude to white girls put in jeopardy by the colored menace and start
measuring curtains for the executive mansion.

What's the price of not-so-subtle euphemisms and open racial slurs? The presidency?

Primary season of demographics have clearly shifted and for the Republicans---it reads more like reenactment of Founding Father's demographics by the time their national convention rolled around.

Conservatives have to understand that outreach cannot be an empty buzzword highlighted by making a speech at the Edmund Pettis Bridge 43 years after the fact.

Enter the Rush Limbaugh's in the Rep. House ---encouraging Hispanic voters to either "shut
your mouth, or get out"; and gone went the Latino vote in five states, CO, FLA, NM, NV,
and NC.

Attracting voters of color means eliminating racially charged verbiage such as has been
Palin's, "that Obama is not a man who sees America like you and I see America."

Based on Republican demographics, certainly Palin is far more correct than she knows.

Following Ridlely---we're going to go another step further and illuminate "how correct Palin
is" and then offer up your opinion. Or e-mail us at E:dcmagazinenow@gmail.com.

Consider the verbiage "who sees America like you and I see America". Compute her tone and definitive perspective---all things equal or no? Was Palin simply pushing an oft used phrase---contesting the strength of the Democratic ticket?

Ergo---never mind obvious need to shut down media biases to bend, twist, and steer public opinion and so easily. The point here rests in that fine line made race matters---given U.S., absence of governance in the absolute.

Can Palin's comment be righteously construed as "a you people" statement or no? Exactly, she meant? Even if cover answers, truth too is oft found between the lines.

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