Hey, remember how the blacks were going to riot if Obama lost?

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Anyone who denies that racism plays a huge role in American politics should read a recent article in The Atlantic. Excerpts:

… Stephens-Davidowitz ranked areas of the country according to how often people there typed racist search terms into Google… Then he compared Obama’s voting results in those areas with John Kerry’s four years earlier… In the Denver area, which had one of the nation’s lowest rates of racially charged Google searching, Obama received the predicted 57 percent. But in Wheeling [West Virginia], [where Kerry did exactly as well as in Denver in 2004, but] which had a high rate of racially charged Google searching, Obama’s share of the popular vote was only 48 percent. Of course, Obama also picked up some votes because he is black. But, aggregating his findings nationally, Stephens-Davidowitz has concluded that Obama lost between 3 and 5 percentage points of the popular vote to racism.

[QUOTE=Wm. F. Buckley Jr., iconic right-wing thinker]
The central question that emerges—and it is not a parliamentary question or a question that is answered by merely consulting a catalog of the rights of American citizens, born Equal—is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes—the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race.
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(Sorry I failed to post this link in a more timely fashion. I prefer print to pixels and subscribe to this fine magazine but … living near the depths of a “remote” Asian jungle, my mail arrives very late! :smack: )