Any Tea Baggers In Here

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That the site he cites is called the political cesspool is entirely appropriate, don't you think?

More like mental cesspool. Most of it isn't even political so much as straight up mental laziness and playing into the old conspiracy theories of race.

Considering that according to the 2000 census
http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_race.html
12.06 percent of the US population was non-Hispanic black, that pretty much translates to, hypothetically, every time you group a hundred people only 12 will be black.

That kind of makes any random group of people much more likely to be all white.


It also, hypothetically, means that if everyone voted voted in this Presidential election and voted their own races there was no way in hell Obama could have been elected - twelve percent of the vote will never win.
So, there were a pretty substantial number of non-black voters voting for Obama.
If racism is a prevalent as some people claim, that would have not happened.

Only if it is a random group of a hundred.

ruveyn

There is no law of averages and the sample depends on the population. Random samplings from the DC area VS Utah would turn up very different percentages.

I'm not too impressed with the ability of most tea baggers to articulate their points but I do believe they are a sincere grassroots movements. Too bad they have no John Adams or Thomas Paine to help articulate their fear of over reaching government.
But the irony is, any time they do get a spokesperson who can talk, they are automatically accused of astroturfing.

Democrats have been Astroturf for years.

The Black panthers are about as racist as you can get yet they seldom come under similar scrutiny. There are tons of black only groups like the "brotherhood project", while east asians and other groups seldom organize into segregationist groups.

However, there is no law against self segregating so I can't oppose it on those grounds, however pundits can throw claims of racism at one group that is accidentally mostly white while ignoring the groups that self segregate. Pure hypocrisy and dismissal of simple facts and reality.

I teabag!!