last night you gave yourself a pat on the back, whitey. remember? tears of joy and pride were dripping into your free starbucks latte, and somewhere in the background, faintly, 'we are the champions' was playing on the loudspeakers of a true american patriot. you ran out into the streets and chest-bumped your bros and shouted the sacred foreign-sounding name at each other like it was a new esperanto that would unite us all. this is what your mom must have felt like when she protested the war in vietnam. high five!!!
because we fixed it. america's youth, we have *fixed racism*, suck it, mom, all you did was bring some troops home. (oh that, yeah. um er. next election.) my generation's gonna get started on retooling america's political discourse. forget about wealth, let's redistribute condescension.
but we're not going to forget about race. cuz it still makes a difference in how people vote, way more than your age or your gender, and you and me, whitey, are way behind this progressive wave the rest of the country is riding. face facts: ours is the only racial group in this country that mostly voted for mccain - 55% - while 67% of latinos, 62% of asians, and 66% of everyone else (that ambiguous 'other' category) went for obama. (not to even mention the african-american vote. you know where that went.) it's honestly probably not that we white people are getting that much more progressive, but that more other races are showing up at the polls. (saxby chambliss knows 'his people' are outnumbered these days.) and if this kind of division persists until 2050, when we'll really be outnumbered, we'll make for one alienated and irrelevant minority.
roll up your sleeves, whitey. still got work to do.
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