Dirty Politics

    I have been listening to the local radio stations as of late and paying attention to the types of ads that have been aired for each candidate as far as the presidential election, governor, mayor, etc. I couldn't help but notice that depending on the radio station (hip-hop/r&b, sports, top 40, rock, etc.) the issues are presented depending on the type of audience that usually listens to the station. Now this is obvious and and nothing surprising. The thing that kind of bothers me is, that these ads are clearly making claims in order to make this a racial campaign. On three separate ads for Richard Moore strongly attack Bev Perdue. In all three ads there are older black folks meeting casually in a barber shop and in a diner. In one ad the characters are saying that they want vote for Perdue because she sells confederate paraphernalia in a few of the stores that she owns. In another ad they say they won't vote for her because she wouldn't back a bill that would help boost the FBI investigate cracking down on the KKK. The other add is an add that loosely says that Richard Moore is a REAL democrat because he cares about black people's issues and helped in the past when the black churches were burned down in the community. I feel like it's okay to get certain audiences interested in a candidate by trying to appeal to their wants and needs but I feel like it's inappropriate and low to try to make it seem like an audience should vote for a candidate because of their race and promise that the candidate can tend to that races needs. We as the american people don't just care about a candidate caters to our races, we're smarter than that and realize that it takes more to run this nation and it's an insult for these ads to overlook that.