Reply #79: Yes we will continue to hear about race and gender

[bliss_eternal]

...based on who's running right now.

But it's my belief that it's possible to discuss race and gender without placing people into boxes based on merely their race and gender. It's also possible to disccuss race and gender without making assumptions based on making broad assumptions about a person's race and gender.

Questions like "how will this race vote" seem to be inviting blanket statements, and assumptions about an entire group of people.Is that really fair, appropriate or accurate? Sure this is the way people are polled, but how much does it really tell us? Merely about the group of people that share an ethnicity that were polled on that day. It doesn't take into consideration different life experiences, backgrounds, religions, educations, etc., etc.

It also seems to be not taking into consideration the very vast differences within any given race or gender. Not everyone that is black will support Obama. Just like every black woman doesn't necessarily watch (or like)Oprah Winfrey. But some might make such assumptions--if they only looked at a person's commonality based on race and gender.