Boston Globe Reporter Should Ask Himself About Racial Subtext
The first question in last night’s debate was a softball question lobbed by Boston Globe Reporter Frank Phillips.
Mr. Patrick your opponent Kerry Healey is airing an aid that shows a woman walking to her car in a dark garage and then refers to your support of convicted rapist Ben Leguer. We know what you’ve said about attack ads so I don’t you to repeat that response, but please tell us your personal response to the ad and whether you think there’s a racial subtext to the emphasis to images of crime in this campaign.
If you haven’t seen the ad in question, it’s posted here. There is absolutely no mention or even implication of race in the ad unless of course it is now wrong to show or quote Deval Patrick himself in any way.
So when Frank Phillips watches this commercial about rape, he apparently automatically thinks the rapist must be black. Maybe he should look in the mirror and ask himself why that is.
Archived in: Crime, Deval Patrick, Kerry HealeyOctober 20, 2006 at 9:44 pm | Trackback
2 comments
In the People’s Democratic Republic of Massachusetts, mirrors are only placed in the re-education camps for recidivist Republicans.
Since the Democrats don’t stand for anything, they cannot be hypocrites, hence no need for mirrors.
I actually think Phillips did Healey a favor in asking the question. Even if “most people” wouldn’t have seen any such subtext, his asking the question gives people a reason to think about it. And that helps Healey, I believe.
She’s toast anyway.