White people shouldn't be allowed to vote.

[Bill Shaw]

This isn't some idiot letter writer- it's actually an editorial by an (attention deprived) columnist at the paper.

Normally, he is on the Entertainment beat, but today The Inquirer published this Opinion:


White people shouldn't be allowed to vote.
It's for the good of the country and for those who're bitter for a reason and armed because they're scared.

Jonathan Valania

is editor in chief of the blog Phawker.com

As a lifelong Caucasian, I am beginning to think the time has finally come to take the right to vote away from white people, at least until we come to our senses. Seriously, I just don't think we can be trusted to exercise it responsibly anymore.

I give you Exhibit A: The last eight years.

In 2000, Bush-Cheney stole the election, got us attacked, and then got us into two no-exit wars. Four years later, white people reelected them. Is not the repetition of the same behavior over and over again with the expectation of a different outcome the very definition of insanity? (It is, I looked it up.)

Exhibit B is any given Sarah Palin rally.

Exhibit C would be Ed Rendell and John Murtha, who in separate moments of on-the-record candor they would come to regret, pointing out that there are plenty of people in Pennsylvania who just cannot bring themselves to pull the lever for a black man - no matter what they tell pollsters.

These people are ruining things for the rest of us white people who are ready to move on. Sure, they have their reasons, chimerical though they may be: He's a Muslim. He's a terrorist. He's a Muslim terrorist. He's going to fire all the white people and give their jobs to blacks.

But those are just the little white lies these people allow themselves to be told, a self-induced cognitive dissonance that lets them avoid saying the unsayable: I cannot pull the lever for a black man.

Hey, some people just aren't ready yet, even the governor said so. Just like some people aren't ready yet for computers or setting the clock on the VCR.

Or, to hear Murtha tell it, some people - specifically some people in Western Pennsylvania - will never be ready. But the fact is, if you did a statewide head count of racists, you'd find just as many in eastern Pennsylvania as you would in the western part of the state.

That's why this ban on white people voting I'm proposing has got to be statewide. And I'm sorry to say, it's going to have to include all white people, even those who would vote for Obama, because you can't just let some white people vote. That would be unfair.

By this point, you either think I am joking or are calling me an elitist. I assure you I am neither. OK, maybe a little of both. But it wasn't always like this. I come from the Coal Belt, from that Alabamian hinterland between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, as per James Carville's famous formulation.

I am, in fact, just two generations out of the coal mines that blackened the lungs of my grandfather, leaving him disabled, despondent and, finally, dead at the ripe old age of 54.

So, understand that I am saying all this for the good of the country and, in fact, for the good of those hard-working white people that Hillary used to pander to.

I know those people, I come from them. They are not some shameful abstract demographic to be brushed under the rug of euphemism by Wolf Blitzer and his ilk.

I have broken kielbasa with those people. I went to school with their children. I have gone to Sunday Mass with a deer-hunter hangover with those people. They are bitter with good reason, and they are armed because they are scared. They mean well, but they are easily spooked.

I fear for what is to become of them after the campaigns leave town for the last time, and Scranton and Allentown and Carlisle go back to being the long dark chicken dance of the national soul they were before the media showed up.

[rich76]

I read most every single post of yours Bill....for good reason....but this....

this was simply a waste of 2-3 minutes. Nothing towards you....but this guy that wrote that is obviously out of his freakin' mind.

[Bill Shaw]

Originally Posted by rich76

I read most every single post of yours Bill....for good reason....but this....

this was simply a waste of 2-3 minutes. Nothing towards you....but this guy that wrote that is obviously out of his freakin' mind.

I hear ya'.

Certainly, I don't advocated his perspective- just posted to illustrate the oncoming implosion when the results in Pennsylvania fail to match what the media has been "reporting" as inevitable for months.

Obama failing to win this state won't be his fault, more like everyone else involved.

Notice that after the perfunctory blaming of Bush, next in the crosshairs is Rendell.

Who, as of today, has more or less provided lip-service to the campaign, and has yet to avail the massive machine that made him the Democratic Governor of this predominately conservative state.

Reality is- if Barak cannot get droves of butts to the polls in Philly and Pittsburgh, he stands no chance here.

...and Fast Eddie doing the talk show circuit alone will not get that done.

[rich76]

and I hear ya!