tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post4065747762958330897..comments2023-03-26T03:50:25.501-04:00Comments on David's Secret Blog: In The United StatesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-11646308523234687372010-02-20T13:28:11.675-05:002010-02-20T13:28:11.675-05:00I think you are making too much of a very small se...I think you are making too much of a very small segment of political hysteria.<br /><br />The number of people who aver that calling a black man 'professor' is antiblack racism is probably 4 orders of magnitude less than the numbers of people who are frankly dissing Obama because he is black.<br /><br />Your professor was making a version of the old observation in newsrooms that there is no average man.<br /><br />If the average person is a man, white, brown hair, right-handed, drinks beer etc. etc., the more average traits you pile on him, the less likely you are to find any individual who has all of them, until finally, the most average of average men turns out not to exist.Harry Eagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04196202758858876402noreply@blogger.com