{"id":8432,"date":"2008-09-13T18:50:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T18:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/brad_worthen_the_cognitive_divide_between_black_and_white_2008_election_edi\/"},"modified":"2008-09-13T18:50:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T18:50:52","slug":"brad_worthen_the_cognitive_divide_between_black_and_white_2008_election_edi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8432","title":{"rendered":"Brad Worthen: The cognitive divide between black and white, 2008 election edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

For me, reading the piece by my old friend Joe Darby on… [Friday’s] op-ed page<\/a> [of The State, South Carolina’s largest newspaper] was another excruciating instance of the apparently unbridgeable cognitive divide between black and white Americans. I always find it very troubling — in fact, I lack words for just how much it troubles me.<\/p>\n

Somehow, Joe looked at the fact that Republicans LIKE an inexperienced conservative Republican, but DON’T like an inexperienced liberal Democrat, and saw it as racism. I realize that after my more than half a century of living in this country, I should not be shocked at such things, but I was. Shocked, and very worried.<\/p>\n

Remember this post about Bill Moyers’ hyperbole about the stakes in this election. Something one of y’all said caused me to express my worry about what will happen if Barack Obama loses this election: Democrats, who have been VERY charged up about their expectation of winning, and whose hatred of Republicans has reached new depths in the past eight years, will be so bitter that — and I hate even to think this thought aloud — the political polarization will be even WORSE in this country. MoveOn.org, to name but one segment of that alliance, will probably implode to the point of nuclear fusion.<\/p>\n

Read it carefully, as well as the linked piece to which it is responding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: Stephen Green has some thoughts on the general subject here which form a useful background<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another update<\/b>: This earlier article by Bob Herbert is also worth reconsidering in the light of this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For me, reading the piece by my old friend Joe Darby on… [Friday’s] op-ed page [of The State, South Carolina’s largest newspaper] was another excruciating instance of the apparently unbridgeable cognitive divide between black and white Americans. I always find…<\/span><\/p>\n

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