The racial demographics of the United States, according to the Wikipedia, are as follows:
The U.S. population's racial distribution in 2006 was as follows:[12]
- White alone (including people of Middle Eastern background): 73.9% or 221.3 million
- Black or African American alone: 12.4% or 37.1 million
- Asian alone: 4.4% or 13.1 million
- American Indian or Alaska Native alone: 0.8% or 2.4 million
- Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander alone: 0.14% or 0.43 million
- Some other race alone: 6.3% or 19.0 million
- Two or more races: 2.0% or 6.1 million[13]
Blacks are 12.4% of the population. They are concentrated in the South, and in some major media markets in the North, where black issues have garnered a tremendous share of media and political attention over the past 50 years.
But the race issue that is specifically and particularly concerning to 12.4% is not going to decide a national election.
Barack [middle name redacted] Obama chose to devote the most important speech of his political career to a defense of angry, bitter, race-baiting, hate-mongering special pleading for the special needs and special rights of 12.4% of the population.
The novelty of his particular and appealing manner is wearing off.
As he wrote in his memoir, Dreams of My Father, Obama discovered a technique for allaying the suspicions of the white people with whom he came into contact:
But now that he's revealed that he has just been playing the courteous, well-mannered "Good Cop" to Jeremiah Wright's profane, threatening "Bad Cop" in another variation on the race-baiting scamming of the professional special-interest manipulators, the charm is wearing thin.
But the race issue that is specifically and particularly concerning to 12.4% is not going to decide a national election.
Barack [middle name redacted] Obama chose to devote the most important speech of his political career to a defense of angry, bitter, race-baiting, hate-mongering special pleading for the special needs and special rights of 12.4% of the population.
The novelty of his particular and appealing manner is wearing off.
As he wrote in his memoir, Dreams of My Father, Obama discovered a technique for allaying the suspicions of the white people with whom he came into contact:
It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved - such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time. (Pages 94-95).Well, he's been playing that trick. And it has been working.
But now that he's revealed that he has just been playing the courteous, well-mannered "Good Cop" to Jeremiah Wright's profane, threatening "Bad Cop" in another variation on the race-baiting scamming of the professional special-interest manipulators, the charm is wearing thin.
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