August 14, 2012
bmichael: Old, “extremely white-looking guy” says Barack Obama invented the notion of “whiteness” in order to win elections: In short, until the election of Barack Obama, “white” was an increasingly rare designation. Intermarriage, integration, and assimilation were making race itself an irrelevant consideration. That notion was what Barack Obama correctly assessed would get him elected — and, now, exploding that notion is what he thinks will get him reelected. Sometimes I have a hard time telling The National Review from The Onion. VDH auto-reblog!

bmichael:

Old, “extremely white-looking guy” says Barack Obama invented the notion of “whiteness” in order to win elections:

In short, until the election of Barack Obama, “white” was an increasingly rare designation. Intermarriage, integration, and assimilation were making race itself an irrelevant consideration. That notion was what Barack Obama correctly assessed would get him elected — and, now, exploding that notion is what he thinks will get him reelected.

Sometimes I have a hard time telling The National Review from The Onion.

VDH auto-reblog!

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  1. decafrabbit reblogged this from doctordisaster
  2. thegoodthebadandthewealthy reblogged this from neveralovelysoreal and added:
    I’m not even studying sociology but from reading NALSR so often I somehow knew that was where he was going.
  3. knickerbacker reblogged this from neveralovelysoreal and added:
    “If I was a racist, why would I be friends with Herman Cain?” -This guy, essentially, four paragraphs later
  4. neveralovelysoreal reblogged this from bmichael and added:
    “Why won’t he just let us be the unmarked category, amiright, you guys?” - what I heard when I read that article
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  9. rubyvroom reblogged this from bmichael and added:
    wait, this ISN’T the onion? Oh FFS.
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  11. titivil reblogged this from jasencomstock and added:
    Dear God.
  12. bricksandmortarandchewinggum reblogged this from jasencomstock and added:
    Oh your morning head explosion has arrived.
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    VDH auto-reblog!
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