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1. What other groups will the Senator subject to the same standard?

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   African Americans?
   Latinos
   Jews
   How about those who identify themselves as white or Caucasian?

   historian   @   Sat 29 Sep 12:46 PM
   

2. "As you can see"

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   Scott Brown is not a moderate.

   whosmindingdemint   @   Sat 29 Sep 2:12 PM
   

3. Maddow on "as you can see"

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   After last week’s debate I encouraged my girlfriend, who is not Native American but it is impossible to tell what her racial/ethnic identity is by looking at her, to do a video asking Senator Brown to use his magic powers to identify clearly what her background is. She declined and I don’t blame her.

   But I would love to see a media savvy Democrat to put a pro-Democrat TV ad of people who are proud of their vast and divergent “hidden” identities challenging Scott Brown to correctly identify their ethnicities. I think if done in a positive and tasteful way, an ad like that could illustrate the complexity of race identity in 2012 America and show how much more forward thinking the Democratic party is than the Jurassic GOP.

   Furthermore, on Friday’s Rachael Maddow Show, a segment ran showing people who organically began tweeting Rachael pictures of themselves using the same concept as Christopher above; there were about five people featured out of the dozen she was sent. The piece is entertaining and provocative. Here’s a gem:

   QUOTE: “FYI Scott Brown: I have alabaster skin and at birth, red hair, with a nod to my Irish immigrant maternal side. Like Elizabeth Warren, I am proud to claim my Indian roots.”

   MADDOW: But if you are Scott Brown, you can already count those roots using your magic DNA divining rod, right?

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   tblade   @   Sat 29 Sep 9:29 PM