Paul Ryan’s black
ex-girlfriend is getting attention among
bloggers and journalists as race relations activate to take a quiet but growing role in the
2012 election.
The ssue of
Paul Ryan’s black ex-girlfriend was raised by
Keli Goff, a political writer at TheRoot.com. Writing an commodity blue-blooded “Does
Paul Ryan’s black
Ex-Girlfriend Matter?”, Goff went on to analyze Paul Ryan to added conservatives with ties to admired ones of color, including CNN’s Lou Dobbs, who has a Mexican wife, and above Sen. Strom Thurmond, who fathered a babe with a black servant.
Goff wrote:
“For the record: No, I am not calling
Ryan a racist. I am saying, however, that if you want to know where a politician’s heart lies when it comes to a particular community, it may be best to look at that person’s policies — such as his or her record on civil rights – rather than personal relationships.”
But simply by bringing the affair up and demography Paul Ryan’s ex-girlfriend in allegory to Dobbs and Thurmond — who accept both at credibility been accused of actuality racially aloof —
Goff is absolutely authoritative chase an issue, writes
Derek Hunter, a biographer for the New York Daily News blog The Rumble.
Hunter says that the simple acknowledgment to Goff’s articulate catechism of whether Paul Ryan’s atramentous ex-girlfriend has any address on his behavior is no. “But to race-obsessed liberals the simple acknowledgment has no abode in politics,”
Hunter says.
He adds:
“This pointless piece ends up demography the continued way about to implying
Ryan is bad for atramentous bodies and may not like them much, admitting the actuality that he has a atramentous sister-in-law and a black
ex-girlfriend. He’s bad, but apparently not a racist.”