finally, I'm sure that the vast majority of elected Dems (KKK Byrd notwithstanding) are very sympathetic to minorities...but there sympathy clearly stops the moment that minority starts to have an independant or, gasp conservative, thought!
So what that means in English is your typical Dem who has filibustered Estrada is not Racist in the KKK sense, just racist in the minority vote is mine sense...
This is subtle, but I think that many Hispanics are starting to see the difference.
WEll, you could be right there - that is certainly a thought. But there is no way you can get around the fact that , qualified or no, he was nominated and touted as 'the first HIspanic' - you can't get around that. Then when the democrats didn't affirm him, THEY are the racists. Is it worse to nominate a person because of their ethnicty or oppose them? If in fact he was qualified, and I am assuming he is, but was nominated because he was qualfied and because he was HIspanic and then the Democrats are opposing him based on his qualification and his Hispanicness. HMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!
You can't get around the fact he is being nominated to try to get the Hispanic ??? vote. You can't deny that the Republicans have screamed and ranted that the Democrats are racists. In my books, that is racial politics. The end doesn't justify the means.
It didn't with the Trent Lott garbage and it won't with this.
Everytime someone uses these tactics - racial politics and racial blackmail becomes a little bigger part of the landscape of this country - it becomes a little more embedded in everything. That is wrong - just wrong. You can't justify it - no way.