I don't have anything to say regarding that Pennyslvania thing yesterday.
Littledrummrboy from LiveJournal's Blackfolk sums up my sentiments of an aspect of that race perfectly:
Campaign Code Words
We all know many of the campaign code words--many of the things that are said to describe a voting bloc but realistically means something else, often along racial or other demographic lines. But there was one that I don't think I had seen until tonight:
"Working class" means white.
The conversation tonight showed this to me. They kept talking about how Barack needed to connect with the "working class" and those who "earn less than $50,000 a year" and then drew swaths through Western PA and Eastern (sans Philly) PA in coal, steel, and textile regions. What wasn't said was that Philadelphia and Delaware county, also largely working class, went strongly to Obama--because a significant amount of those "working class" people are of color (though it should be noted there are a critical mass of white working class people in those areas as well). Every once in a while people would add the qualifier that SHOULD be there and said "white working class", but in most cases, it was conspicuously absent.
Then again, negroes don't work. We either steal it or we're on welfare.And that's if we can vote anyway--you know we just got out of jail.
If you don't know, now you know.
Related: Clinton wins 66 delegates in Pa. primary; Obama snags 57
