"See, in America we have this thing about 'people of color.' POC. I think you're one." That was me explaining all things American to a visitor.
We were trying to figure out whether he was a POC. This was not some sort of intellectual Sudoku to pass the time; this POC idea underpins the core strategy of the Democratic Party.
Meaning about half of the country will be POC. The Democratic Party believes these POC will vote for their candidates, while the Republican Party withers away cherry picking votes from the dwindling basket of deplorable whites.
At least in America, my new friend qualified as a POC. His Seamless order arrived.
"I think," my friend said, "Americans spend so much time worried about race they miss what we Europeans understand in our bones. It is class which divide societies. Look at Britain, once nearly 100 percent white, yet a person had to say just a few words before you knew who worked for who by the accent. Or India, where everyone is a POC as you Americans would say, and where they created a caste system that survived the departure of the white people."
Race? You can be confident that the 1 percent are mostly white; likely the 9.9 percent, too.
Contrast that with early model Barack Obama at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, who pleaded, "There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America."
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/americas-apartheid-of-dollars/
We were trying to figure out whether he was a POC. This was not some sort of intellectual Sudoku to pass the time; this POC idea underpins the core strategy of the Democratic Party.
Meaning about half of the country will be POC. The Democratic Party believes these POC will vote for their candidates, while the Republican Party withers away cherry picking votes from the dwindling basket of deplorable whites.
At least in America, my new friend qualified as a POC. His Seamless order arrived.
"I think," my friend said, "Americans spend so much time worried about race they miss what we Europeans understand in our bones. It is class which divide societies. Look at Britain, once nearly 100 percent white, yet a person had to say just a few words before you knew who worked for who by the accent. Or India, where everyone is a POC as you Americans would say, and where they created a caste system that survived the departure of the white people."
Race? You can be confident that the 1 percent are mostly white; likely the 9.9 percent, too.
Contrast that with early model Barack Obama at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, who pleaded, "There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America."
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/americas-apartheid-of-dollars/
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