http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/video_kentucky_race Comments for "Appalachia in vivid colour, openUSA " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/video_kentucky_race <p>Following our posts in recent days on <a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/kentucky_race_rural">race in the Appalachian primary contests</a>, this al-Jazeera video offers a glimpse of the kind of obstacles that lie before a politics that seeks to transcend race.</p> <p><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M8J9laUNgL4&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M8J9laUNgL4&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object></p> <p>Is this selective demonisation? How easy is it to exaggerate the pitch of racist passions in the impoverished corners of Appalachia?</p> &nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/video_kentucky_race" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/video_kentucky_race">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/video_kentucky_race#comment openUSA-theme Clinton election kentucky Obama openUSA openUSA race USA USA Thu, 22 May 2008 18:02:22 +0100 openUSA 44710 at http://www.opendemocracy.net