| You can't reach them Herb. It's not totally about stupidity or ignorance. It's about under-educated people living their lives vicariously through another.
Ray Nagin left town before the hurricane hit not bothering to make sure that the po' folk in the 9th ward were evacuated. Did they throw him out? No, they re-elected him. Why? Because having a black mayor in power some how gives poor, uneducated blacks a sense of power. It's as close as they will come.
Who do you think watches Rosie O'Donnell and The View? It's not the female doctor, or the highly educated female executive climbing the corporate ladder. It's the housewife or single mother with the curlers in her hair, fuzzy slippers on their feet and a baby on her hip. The closest she'll ever come to feeling powerful as a woman is through Rosie or the Hildabeast. They support these people because they themselves can't do it.
One more good example would be O.J. I believe that most black people know in their hearts that O.J. did it. But in their minds, O.J. exacted the revenge they crave for the murders and lynchings during the civil rights era. Therefore, they will deny all of the evidence against him and privately celebrate that he got away with it.
It's not so much stupidity or ignorance as it is a mind set. |