{"id":3099,"date":"2008-08-19T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2008-08-19T08:38:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T13:38:30","slug":"obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3099","title":{"rendered":"Obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Collins on the DFL’s potemkin DNC delegation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s very, very “diverse” (in terms of color and orientation, anyway; ideology, not so much, but then it is <\/em>a convention delegation.\u00a0 Although it might be mistaken for a small university’s English department).\u00a0 Much moreso, indeed, than the state it purports to represent:<\/p>\n

You get the picture, but is it a picture of Minnesota? “It’s a good picture of the state of Minnesota,” Gilbert-Pederson said.Several speakers noted the Minnesota stereotype; we’re pretty white and the DFL delegation is meant to explode that stereotype.<\/p>\n

But the statistics don’t lie. Minnesota as a state is<\/em> very white. The DFL delegation is not.<\/p>\n

Here’s a comparison of the delegation vs. the latest census data for the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Demographic<\/td>\nMinnesota<\/td>\nMetro Area<\/td>\nOutstate<\/td>\nDFL delegation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
White<\/td>\n89.4%<\/td>\n85.7%<\/td>\n95.1%<\/td>\n66%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
African American<\/td>\n5.1%<\/td>\n7.5%<\/td>\n1.4%<\/td>\n23%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Asian<\/td>\n3.8%<\/td>\n5.5%<\/td>\n1.3%<\/td>\n9.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
American Indian<\/td>\n1.6%<\/td>\n1.1%<\/td>\n2.4%<\/td>\n5.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hispanic<\/td>\n3.8%<\/td>\n4.4%<\/td>\n2.7%<\/td>\n6.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Interesting – although it’s their party, they can do what they want to, and at the end of the day it’s only a convention.\u00a0 They could send a 100% Laotian Lesbian team to Denver to help annoint The One, for all the difference their individual votes make.<\/p>\n

And national delegate slots are usually rewards for long-standing service in the party (at least, they are in the GOP, and am I the only one that wants to pants the seventeen-year-old dweeb in the story just on principle?), and the DFL certainly has its workers-of-color.\u00a0 More power to ’em.
\nBut it does highlight not only the DFL’s picayune obsession with race and gender, but indeed, what a bunch of cretins some of them are about it:<\/p>\n

Stafford took a shot at Republicans during his remarks. He said the appearance of the DFL delegation in Denver will “contrast with what you see a week later” at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.<\/p>\n

“What do you mean by that?” MPR’s Curtis Gilbert asked.<\/p>\n

“White,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Taxpayers.\u00a0 Family people.\u00a0 Veterans who’ve served in combat.\u00a0 People who’ve spent years stuffing envelopes and knocking on doors.\u00a0 If you’re a Republican, anyway.<\/p>\n

A skin tone trotted out for show and\/or ridicule, if you’re a Tic.<\/p>\n

I’m happy to belong to a party that doesn’t use skin color as a prop<\/a> for their facile propaganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Collins on the DFL’s potemkin DNC delegation. It’s very, very “diverse” (in terms of color and orientation, anyway; ideology, not so much, but then it is a convention delegation.\u00a0 Although it might be mistaken for a small university’s English department).\u00a0 Much moreso, indeed, than the state it purports to represent: You get the picture, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,41,20,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-convention-08","category-democrats","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}