Saturday, August 28, 2010

Racial and ethnic exploitation of economic insecurity

by Glenn Greenwald from Salon

The author catches a major columnist from mainstream media (Washington Post) citing some glaring factual errors, and then launches into his thesis, and bemoaning the fact, that the Democratic party is allowing the Republicans and the right-wing to use racial issues to hide the sins of those who destroyed the economy. 

I can't believe that this astute political observer doesn't realize that both parties represent the same ruling interests. In order to save his journalistic career, he doesn't dare make that connection in print.
Virtually every Fox News/right-wing-talk-radio controversy relies on scaring economically anxious white Americans into ignoring the prime cause of their economic insecurity -- plundering by Wall Street bankers, abetted by the government they own -- and focusing instead on some manufactured menace from powerless racial and ethnic minorities....