Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics by LaFleur Stephens-Dougan

Author:LaFleur Stephens-Dougan [Stephens-Dougan, LaFleur]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780226698984
Google: PfLuDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 49414509
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-01-15T13:08:10+00:00

In a rejoinder to this critique, New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait defended Obama against Coates’s criticism on the grounds that Obama had a very different perspective from Paul Ryan, who believes that liberal policies are responsible for the “cycle of poverty.” By contrast, according to Chait, “Obama’s habit of speaking about this issue primarily to black audiences” is Obama “seizing upon his role as the most famous and admired African American in the world to urge positive habits and behavior.”4 Indeed, Obama acknowledges that not only does he address predominantly black audiences differently than he does predominantly white audiences, but as an African American man, he views himself as being uniquely positioned to urge positive habits and behavior among African Americans:

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