Activists from uber-lefty Berkeley, California and environs are working in Florida to help black people transcend their state of perpetual oppression and remember that, uh, it's important to vote.

....Erin Brandt, a peace and conflict resolution major at UC Berkeley and a Florida native (said), “They have other problems to deal with and it’s hard for them to make this a priority. They don’t trust the system because of the last election.”

Never mind that even if the ineptly-punched and other discarded ballots had been counted, Bush still would have won Florida in 2000, and thus the presidency, according to those heedless right-wing shills at the New York Times (free registration required).

The real problem here is the patronizing assumption that black Floridians need to have representative democracy explained to them by anyone, let alone a "peace and conflict resolution major" from UC Berkeley.

Where does such an individual get a real job after graduation? The United Nations?

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at July 5, 2004 07:55 PM

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