Racial musings from Byron York at the Washington Examiner
Byron York:
Obama’s sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are.
Go read the article…it’s a laundry list of policy areas where Blacks think Obama is doing a better job than do Whites. Ergo, Blacks support Obama’s policies because of some unreflective groupthink that reasoned, critically minded White people do not suffer from (sheesh)! What is it about this issue that makes otherwise reasonable conservatives like Byron York get a case of the knuckleheads? Do we have to repeat the same statistics over and over again. African-Americans are overwhelmingly LIBERAL DEMOCRATS! The decidedly un-black John Kerry got over 90% of the Black vote in 2004? Let’s reword York passage from above:
Byron York:
John Kerry’s sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are.
or, let’s try this one:
Byron York:
Ronald Reagan’s sky-high ratings among White people make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are.
Seriously, is there even any evidence that there’s a policy incongruence between Obama and the vast majority of the African American electorate?
Comments 3
John — April 29, 2009
A larger issue is that York's statement is incorrect. Higher approval ratings among one group might affect the average, but the average is still an accurate reflection of all groups combined. York appears to mean that "Obama’s sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are among the people that matter to me (i.e. whites)."
meruprecht — May 1, 2009
jose, this is an excellent post.
thanks for alerting me to york's piece and for your astute insights into it. ...i'm just teaching the mcintosh article ("white privilege and male privilege") now in my classes -- so, may bring in his piece and see what the cats think.
thanks once again!
jose — May 1, 2009
He (York) has apparently responded by chastising everyone for calling him a racist.