Christy Clarke Female vs Male – Politics of Race
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Christy Clarke Female vs Male – Politics of Race
When Premier Christy Clark was asked about the dismissive comments coming her way from the New Democratic Party, she seized the opportunity to speculate that gender had something to do with the tendency to underestimate her.
“I think that the NDP, some of the members of the NDP, do have a tendency to see women different from men,” Clark told reporter Rob Shaw of The Vancouver Sun in an interview Thursday.
“It’s something women experience all over the place. Any woman watching this will be going, ‘Uh-huh, I’ve felt that.’ I think I experience a little bit of that from John Horgan, and Adrian Dix as well.”
The premier did not point to any specific examples from the recent session of the legislature, though she was probably thinking about the multiple references to her preference for “photo ops” and “cheerleading” over substance and results.
Politics of Race
So now it’s out there. After five years of studied reticence (unless they were talking privately to one another or their supporters), Democratic leaders in Washington finally went public last week with what they really think is motivating Republican opposition to Barack Obama. As Steve Israel, one of the top Democrats in Congress, told CNN’s Candy Crowley, the Republican base, “to a significant extent,” is “animated by racism.”
Just to make himself clear, Israel did allow that not all Republicans were the ideological descendants of Bull Connor. To which I’m sure his colleagues across the aisle responded, “Oh, OK. Cool then.”
But it’s not the reaction of Republicans that Democrats should probably have some concern about. It’s the way American voters, and a lot of younger voters in particular, may view a return to the polarizing racial debate that existed before Obama was ever elected.
http://news.yahoo.com/democrats-hark-back-to-the-politics-of-race-020141291.html
The article is a by an African-American professor and mostly it restates the obvious. It’s just that the obvious isn’t much talked about.
So, it’s just fake to pretend that the association of young black men with violence comes out of thin air. Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men. If the kinds of things I just mentioned were regularly done by whites, it’d be trumpeted as justification for being scared to death of them.
It’s not that black communities are in complete denial about these statistics — Stop the Violence events are a staple of high-crime areas. But let’s face it: black America isn’t nearly as indignant about black boys killing one another or whites as about the occasional white cop killing one black boy, even though the former wreaks much more havoc in black communities. There is no coordinated nationwide movement equivalent to the one Martin galvanized. There are no thoughtful films “exploring” black-on-black crime the way Fruitvale Station treats the death of Oscar Grant, a young black man who was killed by transit police in Oakland, Calif.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/time-young-black-men-murder-14-times-more-than-young-white-men/
A two-year-old case involving the shooting death of an unarmed 18-year-old white man by a black police officer is gaining attention on social media in the wake of this week’s protests and rioting in Ferguson, Missouri.
Gilbert Collar, a white, unarmed 18-year-old under the influence of drugs was shot and killed Oct. 6, 2012, by Officer Trevis Austin, who is black, in Mobile, Alabama. Despite public pressure for an indictment, a Mobile County grand jury refused to bring charges against Officer Austin, concluding that the officer acted in self-defense.
The circumstances mirror those of the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown, a black unarmed 18-year-old under the influence of drugs by Officer Darren Wilson, who is white, in Ferguson.