note: I posted this on myspace and I am posting it here because i want more people to read it.
No, they are actually not any more racist than the rich white liberal who is voting for Obama.
I think poor people, who are often uneducated, are more in touch with the way racism influence the lower economic class. When you are a poor, you are more protective of yourself and your family, which usually shares the same ethnic background you have, and poor people, regardless of their race, often cling onto people of their own race to get by in their jobs, does the media ever talk about the race relation between Hispanic and black people among the poor communities or asian people and black people? I think some white educated liberals who call poor uneducated people racist are actually the most clueless of all, because while they can talk about historical oppression and slavery against black people through their university studies , they haven't actually lived though the racial tension and racism that occur among non white groups in poor communities.
This is the elitism people talk about rich liberals have and I think that's why Obama is not getting the "working class " vote.
I suspect Obama does really well in states like Oregon , Iowa, and the west is because there isn't that many black people there, and those white people are either really well off, or they just never had to deal with black people and compete for jobs for them because there are not that many black people to ever experience that racial tension on a real life basis. So they might feel more sympathy about black people from an idealist or even elitist view, while in states where huge amount of African Americans concentrate in urban districts , there are more face to face racist tension among different racial groups, and people vote more along racial line, regardless if they are black, white, or in the case of Hispanic or others, they are even more threatened by a black man because the poorer you are, the more insecure you feel about other racial group who is trying to fight for your job - and usually white people who are well off, are not even involved in this kind of fight and so they have no clue what the hell racism is on that working class economic level.
And I feel a lot of people don't get that, especially those people who post on myspace, a lot of them probably are well off white suburban folks who have not experienced racism on that economic survival level...
Part of the reason I am not happy is because the mainstream media seems to NOT understand a single thing about working class people or sexism.
And btw, I am not white, I am asian , female, and live in Canada. lol . For real. So you can ignore me all you want, but i feel all north american city is not all that different from one another. And i only posted this because of an experience i heard from a poor asian co-worker who witnessed racial tension between asians and blacks in a local factory. And oh by the way, I went to university and i majored in politics, so dont even go there and yeah, I AM POOR.|
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