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The Imminent Danger of Racial Profiling (Disguised as Polling)

By Jack Nolan - Feb 20th, 2008 at 10:41 pm EST

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The media has been heavily over-playing race and gender issues throughout the campaign – pitting hispanics vs blacks vs whites, men vs women.

As we move to the general election, this will only get worse – as we’ll have Obama vs McCain – or to sell more papers, the black candidate vs the white candidate. Gender will have dropped to the wayside.

So this is how it works – a group of morons are dispatched to conduct an ‘exit poll’. They then identify the people they’re interviewing based on their race and gender. How the press can excuse this profiling is beyond me – but the bigotry and hypocrisy of this practice has gone unquestioned.

The press, quite irresponsibly in my opinion, is pushing the issue as hard as they possibly can. I’ve already seen headlines – “Can a black man win the South?”

It’s been quite a long time since ANY democrat has won the South.

As an independent, I’m still waiting on the primaries to end and for the parties to introduce their platforms. And in the end, as with anything else in my life, race will play no part in my decision.

Racial profiling by pollsters, racial profiling reinforced by the main stream media – all running full steam ahead, unchecked and with no shame…

So when did racial profiling suddenly become politically correct? And why are we allowing it to continue?

And if you think it’s all just academic – imagine the repercussions of whites and blacks being directly pitted against each other, throughout the South, in November.

If we were all high-minded individuals, the continued (and seemingly endless) social segregation of the South wouldn’t even exist.

But you can’t theorize that because it shouldn’t exist, it doesn’t – nor theorize that the repercussions of this media inflamed race-baiting doesn’t stand the potential of being highly explosive.

And if and when that happens, it will be a little too late.

Hope and unity are the path to the future. But we can’t ignore the reality of the present.

This unabated bigotry should be called out for what it is now, before it’s too late.

The intent of polling is primarily to influence voters. What exactly is the intent of racial profiling?

My hope for this election is to finally have an election focused on the issues – and I don’t see how the racially profiled polling of blacks, hispanics, whites, asians, men, and women has a DAMN thing to do with who we should choose to best move our country forward.

But I can very well see how it can be effectively used to distract voters from the issues and turn people against one another.

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