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Originally posted by sgtclub
To All:
1. Please explain how equating "staff" jobs with minorities is not stereotyping based on race? You may want to provide a cite for your contention that truth is a defense.
2. Assuming that your response in #1 continues to defend the comments, please explain what your response would have been had Dean been the chair of the GOP, rather than the DNP.
You have 30 minutes. Good luck.
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Dean's point was, the Dem tent is more mixed than is ours. He was right.
If you go into a Republican rally of the same sort, to the extent that you do see blacks and hispanics, chances are high that they are working for the facility, and not attendees. That's what he commented on - "look at how diverse our membership is compared to theirs."
As for cites - simply look to the percentage of R's who are black, hispanic, or whatever, compared to the same stat for Dems. Additionally, look to any grouping of low-paying jobs - they will disproportionately be held by minorities. I was at a CLE a few weeks ago. Almost all white lawyers, almost all black waiters. It's not racist to acknowledge that. It's racist for the Dems to treat that part of their constituency as one fungible bloc, of course, and I think that's how our tent is eventually going to grow, but what he commented upon is simply a measure of foul truth.
What if Dean was an R? Had Dean been the chair of the Republicans, then he would have been lying.
