re: #10 Belafon

Caught a few seconds of Bill Maher because I couldn’t change the channel fast enough. He had this poll up:

[Embedded content]

It’s a poll of young adults.. I suspect that some of that is based on awareness by whites of what blacks are going through without having some context of the changes happening, but I also think it’s about young whites being disillusioned with what they were told growing up - you can get ahead with college - compared to reality.

But somehow, according to Maher, this was all about whites hating themselves, leading to bad policies like all black dorms. Say what?

I watched the Maher show. and the piece seemed to be more about the fact that we have made a lot of progress in the last few years. He made it clear that we still have work to do. Like most of Maher, I agreed up to a point. If we don’t celebrate the wins (gay marriage, blacks voting strong in GA), we will defeat ourselves.

the problem that Maher leaves out is that conservatives will always agree that we don’t need to do anymore while at the same time making it harder for people to vote.

I think his point was that whites are too pessimistic (perhaps true), but Maher always takes the argument too far.