Pick a theme and stick with it.
Close your eyes and imagine a white man stepping up to a podium and saying the following statement....
"Black voters are 'afraid' of electronic voting machines. They are not tech-savy and will be intimidated by touch screen voting systems and therefore be less likely to vote."
Would you be appalled? Angry that someone could make such a negative generalized statement? What would you think of a person who could say that?
I heard that statement on Mike Gallagher's show this morning. Carol Moseley-Braun, a BLACK civil rights activist actually made those comments about the voting in Florida in the upcoming Presidential campaign. Syd Dinerstein, Chairman of the Palm Beach County Republican Party responded by saying that, "this is a clear example of why the black community needs new leaders."
If the people who are supposedly working for you can negate your abilities and competence so frequently, why do you want someone like that representing you? i would like to hear from anyone with a thought on this. I see blacks and other minorities reduced to stereotypes, "poverty-stricken, uneducated criminals"....by themselves and by their leaders. I would personally be very offended if I was described as being too stupid and uneducated to use a touch-screen and so intimidated by computers that I couldn't vote.
What's next? Democrates deciding to vote "on behalf" of the underprivilaged minorities because they aren't competent enough to cast a vote on their own?