Hard-core socialist or RINO

Lack of experience or plenty of experience

Pretender or contender

Disingenuous or disingenuous

Major evil or minor demon

Logically, it’s McCain for me…

albeit I’ll be voting under protest.

*blacks accounted for 12.3% of the total population,
*http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-5.pdf

*Hispanics accounted for 12.5% of the total population,
*http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-3.pdf

and *Caucasians accounted for 75.1% of the total population
*http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-4.pdf

From the referenced article, “…More than six in 10 African Americans now rate race relations as “not so good” or “poor,” while 53 percent of whites hold more positive views. Opinions are also divided along racial lines, though less so, on whether blacks face discrimination. There is more similarity on feelings of personal racial prejudice: Thirty percent of whites and 34 percent of blacks admit such sentiments…”

So, according to this “NON-BIASED” article, more than (what does that really represent?) 60% of Blacks consider race an issue, while OVER 53% (what does that really mean?) of Caucasians hold a more positive view.

One then can deduce, (as represented by blacks per the US census), that somewhere between 7 and 8 percent of the total population consider race to be an issue and, while the number associated with Caucasians has been slightly obscured, based on the @45% of the Caucasian block (or 37.5% of the total US population) who “don’t hold a more positive view”, the 3 in 10 number stated by the author is closer to 4.1 in 10.

Keep in mind this does not take into account the Hispanic population which accounts for roughly the same population as blacks (perhaps we see a racial bias in her opinion, but I digress).

So, to be more accurate in our calculations, we must consider their position as well. For argument sake, I’ll take a random number that is somewhere between blacks and Caucasians, say 50% or 6.25% of the total US Population and add that to the overall number of people who consider race to be an issue. The result is the original number of 3 in 10 now grows to 4.75+/- in 10, which would indeed confirm Fred’s assertion “…but if 3 in 10 openly admit to some racial bias, you can bet the REAL figure is considerably higher…”

All this to say, based on the data presented in this article (the data BTW, that the author can’t even accurately disseminate), we can clearly see two points:

1. The majority of racial bias by racial group predominantly exists within the minorities, and

2. Nearly 50% of the population in the United States considers Race to be an issue at some level.

So finally, the remaining questions to be asked are:

1. Who is making this presidential race a RACE Issue? 2. And, who stands to benefit from keeping race in the forefront?

These questions can easily be answered by two more rhetorical questions:
1. Which way does our media lean?
2. And which campaign is continually brining it up?