signaling devices
My students ask me about Obama all the time. They themselves are pretty much evenly split between supporting him intensely and having no idea what a political party is. For the first crowd, my endorsement is like a signal - about me, not him. It's like, maybe that white lady's ok. Maybe she really is on our side.
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I got an incredulous vote of support over my Obama button from a group of teenage black boys on the El when I was in Chicago last month. I think they were trying to parse the cognitive dissonance of me, white, clearly supporting a black dude.
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