The New Yorker’s Peter Boyer says that Newark Mayor Cory Booker is a mayor of the "post-racial generation" who has nevertheless run into raw racial prejudice since his entry into Newark politics. His article in the Feb. 4 issue is "The Color of Politics."
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Comments [3]
post-racial does describe how some people live and think. at the same time, just because a younger generation interacts with the world in a post-racial way, truly color blind, that doesn't mean the older, highly racialized, generations have faded away or lost its sway.
that said, when sharpe james had power it seemed all he did was enrich his cronies, family and girlfriend. that's not "being african american." that's being a hack politician.
may god bless cory booker.
Why is it "weird" for Cory Booker to show a strong interest in a topic outside of blackness? I don't often view things through a racial lens, but one can't help but notice that when whites act similarly terms like "intellectually curious" are used to describe them, but when blacks or other minorities focus on things other than their minority status they "weird".
"Post-racial" is just another effort by the media to divide and conquer the public. As a result, TV producers--mostly--can book guests on extremes to engage in senseless shout-fests and hike ratings in order to sell crap that people don't want or need. Please stop using these ridiculous terms and dividing the public into red states/blues states, left/right, Democrats/Republicans, white/black.
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