SOCIAL: Another GREAT NYT article on Race & the election

[Amandeep Jawa]

So there have been 2 great articles in the NYT about Race & The  
election - I posted one last week & here is another one.  This is one  
about the South & race:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/us/politics/11south.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

“I think there are going to be outbreaks from blacks,” she added.  
“From where I’m from, this is going to give them the right to be more  
aggressive.”

& if you missed the first one - here it is:


On Nov 9, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Amandeep Jawa wrote:

> I've been fascinated about how people voted past their racism & this  
> article is in some regards about that.  Fascinating & heartening.
>
> “For a long time, I couldn’t ignore the fact that he was black, if  
> you know what I mean,” Mr. Sinitski, the heating and air- 
> conditioning technician, told me. “I’m not proud of that, but I was  
> raised to think that there aren’t good black people out there. I  
> could see that he was highly intelligent, and that matters to me,  
> but my instinct was still to go with the white guy.”
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/weekinreview/09sokolove.html?hp
>



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