Tonight’s Tom Ashbrook on a local public channel topic was the primaries in light of race and class. The discussion turned around Obama vs Clinton with respect to race and the lower class. First, guys wake up, race is not black and white only. We have more brown than black now. Second, guys there is the issue of sex also and it is not less important than the other two mentioned issues.

Ms. Newman from the LAT demonstrated again that most journalist are born without an intellect. According to her: Clinton “brings” the white lower class. If she is right, the Obama won California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc. She did however mention women, but accordingly they became an issue only the last month.  Read more 

You’ve probably done something like this in a class yourself. I wonder: if everyone in the blogosphere were in the same room and participated in this exercise, who would be at the front, when all the questions were asked? From a site that’s new to me:

This meme is from “What Privileges Do You Have?”, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois Indiana State University. Done in a classroom setting, students would line up and take one step forward for every statement that is true.

When you were in college:

If your father went to college, take a step forward.

If your father finished college.

If your mother went to college.

If your mother finished college.

If you have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor.

If you were the same or higher class than your high school teachers.

If you had a computer at home.

If you had your own computer at home.

If you had more than 50 books at home.

If you had more than 500 books at home.

If were read children’s books by a parent.

If you ever had lessons of any kind.

If you had more than two kinds of lessons

If the people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively.

If you had a credit card with your name on it.

If you have less than $5000 in student loans.  Read more