We are a nation of rationalizers, skeptics and negotiators best defined by Rodney King: “People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?”The opinion piece was about John McCain and being the right guy to fight terrorism. Why bring up a black man who was filmed being beaten by cops, and the cops acquittal stirred up the largest mass scale riots this country had seen in many years?
Why do conservatives continue to play on race? It had nothing to do with what he was talking about; aside from the fact that his arguments about the war on terrorism lack a lot of coherency to many foreign policy experts. If the experts don't buy conservatives foreign policy views on fighting terrorism the average man on the street might not either. Unless you play on race... since more and more studies by neuroscience are showing that racism blocks many peoples higher brain processes--might that have to do with reason and logic as well??
Which might explain why latent racism tinges the edges of conservative politics? I don't know... but it was disturbing to read this shoddy writing on my Sunday. And it makes a guy like me who is interested in the whys of social science to ask one question. why?
Why does Wooten feel the need to bring Rodney King into an opinion piece about Foreign Policy and John McCain?
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