http://saltlakecityutahblog.com/2008/10/04/race-and-the-presidential-election-why-the-bradley-effect-still-matters/ A blog of Salt Lake City at its cosmopolitan best Mon, 21 May 2012 22:05:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://saltlakecityutahblog.com/2008/10/04/race-and-the-presidential-election-why-the-bradley-effect-still-matters/#comment-689 The correct Reverse Bradley effect definition . . . Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:17:58 +0000 http://saltlakecityutahblog.com/2008/10/04/race-and-the-presidential-election-why-the-bradley-effect-still-matters/#comment-689 There's plenty of evidence in 2008 to throw the original "Bradley Effect" out the window as a dated phenomena. Here's the evidence "the Bradley Effect" is gone: (1) Hillary Clinton (2) Joe Biden (3) Bill Richardson (4) Chris Dodd (5) John Edwards (6) Mike Gravel (7) Dennis Kucinich. Once you recognize this fact - x 7 - you must question the spin abound in defining the "reverse" Bradley Effect. In the mid '70's I listened to civil rights activist Julian Bond speak on campus. During the Q & A time, to everyone who took issue with him, many posing intellectually developed questions, he immediately responded, "You're a racist". What we were witnessing was a precursor to the conditioning of a susceptible white America. Americans who were just learning the history of despicable acts of racism. Americans who were not personally victimized by black on white crime, and could rationalize the inherent racism of affirmative action. Americans who were distanced from isolated black Americans and bought into believing they couldn't understand because, after all, "it's a black thing". They were racists. And they felt guilty. We felt guilty. We are guilty. It's time we make amends for our ignorance. What a historic opportunity we have with Barack Obama. NOW you understand The Reverse Bradley Effect. Liberal white America believes we must bear the fruit of a pitiful racial conditioning. Nothing else matters. As Malcolm X said, "By any means necessary." We can accept this truth - x 7, or mock it, seeking the social and personal acceptance we've sought our whole life. There’s plenty of evidence in 2008 to throw the original “Bradley Effect” out the window as a dated phenomena. Here’s the evidence “the Bradley Effect” is gone: (1) Hillary Clinton (2) Joe Biden (3) Bill Richardson (4) Chris Dodd (5) John Edwards (6) Mike Gravel (7) Dennis Kucinich. Once you recognize this fact - x 7 - you must question the spin abound in defining the “reverse” Bradley Effect.
In the mid ’70’s I listened to civil rights activist Julian Bond speak on campus. During the Q & A time, to everyone who took issue with him, many posing intellectually developed questions, he immediately responded, “You’re a racist”. What we were witnessing was a precursor to the conditioning of a susceptible white America. Americans who were just learning the history of despicable acts of racism. Americans who were not personally victimized by black on white crime, and could rationalize the inherent racism of affirmative action. Americans who were distanced from isolated black Americans and bought into believing they couldn’t understand because, after all, “it’s a black thing”. They were racists. And they felt guilty. We felt guilty. We are guilty.
It’s time we make amends for our ignorance. What a historic opportunity we have with Barack Obama.
NOW you understand The Reverse Bradley Effect. Liberal white America believes we must bear the fruit of a pitiful racial conditioning. Nothing else matters. As Malcolm X said, “By any means necessary.”
We can accept this truth - x 7, or mock it, seeking the social and personal acceptance we’ve sought our whole life.

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