race and the election
Friday, September 12th, 2008I heard this awesome piece, Does Race Matter In ‘08? The View From York, Pa., on NPR yesterday afternoon and I want to write more about it, but don’ have time right now. Still, I wanted to through it out there because I think the people profiled say some very awesome and very scary things, but they’re all very real in a way that I rarely see the media create space for discussions about race. I think that people said the things that they did because the reporters framed race in precisely the right way, asking about race not just as who you are, but as what you’ve experienced:
Most voters say they won’t decide between Barack Obama and John McCain on the basis of race. But, in a question that is more subtle than the standard questions in a poll, can a decision be based on the racial experience of the voter?