Cokie Roberts, White Flighter?
NPR's Cokie Roberts recently opined that Mitt Romney went to Poland to appeal to white voters. Apparently visiting Israel, or England, was not an appeal to white voters, according to Cokie. I guess they are not white.
But what is very, very white is Cokie's hood. She lives at 5315 Bradley Boulevard in a house worth about a mil and a half, in zip code 20814, which is less than 6% black - in a suburb of a city that is 50% black.
Now in this the Coker is just like Eugene Robinson, Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell, David Gregory, Chuck Todd, Jay Carney, Hillary Rosen, and every other pro-regressive journalist or PR flak, who all live in lily white areas. Including all the higher-ups at NPR, who tend to live in Chevy Chase or Aspen. And she did buy her house in 1978 when DC was much blacker, and she was having babies who needed all white schools. So she has an excuse.
http://www.city-data.com/zips/20814.html
(P.S. For my addle brained leftover critics, the last paragraph was sarcasm. I am making fun of you and your persistent residential racism. Nor get your IPad and go down to the Starbucks and buy some fair trade coffee and buy a world music CD.)
Labels: Cokie Roberts, journ-0-lisps, Leftovers, pro-regressives, racism
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