The Race (Issue) That Won't End

By Eric Pfeiffer | May 23, 2008 2:00 PM | | Comments (1)

A web video from Al Jazeera is making the rounds on the liberal blogosphere this morning, most prominently over at Daily Kos. The report comes from Kentucky and features a number of candid interviews with white voters who acknowledge race was the determining factor in their vote for Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama. It's a sad and somewhat shocking display, and I'm not just talking about the shot of people auctioning off a can of Manwich:







Kos also links to the Too Sense blog, who provides a little more background on the racial tensions, which appear to deviate somewhat from the common understanding of racism/racial tensions:

After emancipation, coal mining companies sought an advantage over unions by hiring former slaves as scabs since, the unions were racist, wouldn't allow blacks as members. The companies didn't have to fulfill many obligations to this new, unorganized labor force, and a lot of white miners lost their jobs. So it actually makes sense that people would see race relations as a question of pure exploitation; with one side dominating the other. That's the history of the region. 

Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton

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  1. OY!!!

    Shame that it is from Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera is a pile of horsedung, in my book.

    Posted by: bonncaruso Author Profile Page | May 24, 2008 5:12 PM

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