In the News… Racist Sharks Sipping Lattes.
Posted at 9:01 am on Monday, December 11, 2006, in In the News, and tagged 2008.
- This coming Spring I will be taking surfing lessons, not far from where a great white shark attacked a surfer this past weekend. Eep.
- If Illinois Senator Barack Obama is running for president, will that make it easier or more difficult for the GOP to employ a racist campaign against him? I’m going to have to say more difficult. Advantage: Democrats.
- In a three block radius, I’d have to say there are at least four or five Harbucks* (I would even put money on this, and I would take the ‘over’) which would seem like a lot, but nationwide “the goal is 40,000, which would trump even McDonald’s.“
* “Harbucks” is what I call Starbucks, thanks to the underpants’ gnomes. (I also refer to “Chubway,” instead of Subway. And “Chafeway,” not Safeway.)
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December 11th, 2006 at 11:41 am
Good luck with the surfing lessons, and be sure to use plenty of shark repellent!
I must respectfully disagree with your second comment, especially after seeing the tricks employed by the Repubs against Hrold Ford in Tennessee. Overt racism in ads wouldn’t be possible, since most people would recognize it and reject it. But covert racism–remember the “jungle drum” sounds in one commercial?–is much more insidious and provides more plausible deniability for the Repubs. I think it’s very likely that the Repubs would employ that sort of trickery, especially if they have a weak candidate.
Starbucks won’t be satisfied until it has a shop on every corner in the US. “Mediocre coffee” is what I call Starbucks.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Good point with the Harold Ford senate race. However, could the GOP move forward with a national campaign that is overtly — or covertly — racist? The coverage of the Tennessee race was indeed covered outside of Tennessee, but paid attention to mostly by political junkies. If the GOP were to employ racist campaign tactics in a national (er, global) campaign, I would hope the press would adequately cover the issue, and the American people would reject the GOP campaign. Of course, I am a hopeless optimist. We will prevail in Iraq. Stay the course.
December 11th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
As Sir John Gielgud used to say in those wine commercials, “Hope springs eternal.” I, too, try to be an optimist, so I think that the public would reject an overtly racist campaign as something intolerable and utterly unacceptable. But when it comes to covert racism, as in the ads against Harold Ford, there could be enough ambiguity to make any racism present be argued as a subjective perception. In other words, the Repubs could argue that you hear racism in ads because you are racist. I, too, would hope that the press would uncover such dirty tactics, but in ambiguous cases, the argument that racism is in the eye of the beholder is patently false.