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A Gaffe on the Radio

Listening to a re-run of the Ed Schultz radio program, today, "Commons" couldn't believe that his guest that day, Stephen Smith, presumably black himself, implied that most black people don't understand much or anything about President Obama's policies, they just support him because he's black. It's a shame that someone influential enough to be a top radio host's guest would pronounce a falsehood like that over the public air waves, which in effect is saying that blacks are ignoramuses that would support almost any politician with black or brown skin. That is untrue, of course, and it has been proven to be untrue a number of times in past political history. Even Obama, the only major black Democrat running for president when he ran, was not sure of getting the majority of the black vote in the primaries and caucuses of 2008 until after the first few contests. Why "intelligent" people sometimes play into unflattering stereotypes of their own race is beyond us. Probably, just a gaffe.

Copyright 2009, Party of Commons TM

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