Video: Will November 4th Measure How Racist America Is?

Is voting for John McCain for president an automatic admission of racism? We’re less than a month away from Election Day and political analysts, media pundits and other superfluous journalists still have no idea how much race will figure into the American people’s vote. What they have managed to do is break us down into four kinds of voters conveniently outlined for you after the jump.

According to a recent article in the New York Times, American voters fall into one of the following categories:

1. People who know Barack Obama is the better choice for America and will vote for him.
2. People who know Barack Obama is the better choice for America, but haven’t yet decided if they can trust a black man. (This is the deciding vote!)
3. People who know Barack Obama is the better choice for America, but could never vote for a black man, even if it is irrational, dumb and racist.
4. People who believe John McCain is a better choice for America than any black man.

The Times further claims code words thrown around Republican rallies like “terrorist”, “friend of terrorists,” “Muslim” and “Barry Hussein” are just guises for racism. Republicans claim it has nothing to do with his race.

“[L]isten, I’ve voted for black Republicans before,” [said Lloyd Wood, a Republican and farmer in southeast Ohio], “— voted for one for governor last time — but Obama is just this very privileged kind.”

Unlike the very under-privileged, five-home owning John McCain? Oh yeah, and then there’s the guy (pictured above) who showed up at a Sarah Palin rally in Pennsylvania recently with a monkey doll labeled Obama. We suppose he was unaware of the long, racist tradition of comparing blacks with monkeys? And perhaps the media is viewing all this through the lens of liberal bias. So, in the interest of fair representation, take a gander at the below video of Republicans speaking for themselves at a recent McCain-Palin rally in Ohio.

Race Remains Campaign Issue, but Not a Clear One [NY Times]