Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Campaign Managers are being racist in my view, and that includes the new campaign head, Maggie Wiliams, who's Black but is so into the campaign and wanting to please Senator Clinton she can't see straight. She's got to wake up.
This is why. Look, they've accused Obama of "just words" and not speaking on policy substance and the hidden rule is that Black politicians like Obama and Deval Patrick, the Governor of Massechusetts, talk in inspiring terms, but are weak on policy, which is another veiled way of saying..
They're not intelligent because they're Black.
That's right. That's what Hillary Clinton is saying. That's why Barack Obama went to Governor Patrick and borrowed the retort Obama recited last Saturday in Wisconsin. Because both Obama and Governor Patrick faced the same racist approach from opposition White candidates who implied that in some way they were not good at talking about policy or providing substance and while they don't say "it's because they're Black" the implication is obvious.
Hillary Clinton should be totally ashamed of herself. Her staffers too. They've been trying to position him by first saying he' like or trying to compare himself to Martin Luther King, who Senator Clinton dissed when she basically said MLK could not do a thing without President Johnson's help.
See the connection? Clinton compares Obama to MLK , then says MLK needs a president, which could not be Obama because he can't talk policy; that's a strategy Governor Patrick recognized and so do I -- and it stinks to high heaven.
The Clintons can't help themselves. First it's the Muslim charge; then Martin Luther King; then falling asleep at an MLK Day speech, then saying that certain Obama wins don't matter because many of the voters were African American -- it goes on and on and on and the Mainstream Media just lets' them do it.
I wish someone at CNN, FOX, or MSNBC would grow a spine and start pointing this out. This is sick! I for one, am tired of it.
I don't mean to offend, but that's crap. Nothing the Clinton administration has done recently has been even remotely racially based. And I say that as a Black man voting for Obama. It's sad enough that the Clinton campaign has to go pulling at straws to rake in votes. Obama voters don't need to use the same tactics. We've got all the right reasons to vote for him without having to resort to racial deflamation of the opponents.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I totally disagree. The reason is that sometimes we hear something so much we accept it as fact ot get used to it rather than address it. In this case, it's obvious there's a connection between 1) the fact that both Obama and Patrick are Black, 2) the constant use of the term "Just words" for both of them, and 3) the habit of this kind of attack being made by a candidate who's White. You and I may not like it, but it's there. You chose to ignore it; I decide to fight it.
ReplyDeleteI would disagree as well. It is not racist- it is a stupid argument/debate, they are friends- and political friends, I am sure they sit around talking politics all the time- no big deal.
ReplyDeleteThe Clinton's are not racist- it breaks my heart every time someone says that. We are ALL on the same team- and the Clinton's are good folks.
And again, I totally disagree. I've been a Clinton fan, but this cycle has shown a side of them I did not expect to see. The problem is that "we" as African Americans have tended to see the Clintons from a "help" standpoint -- as in , I need your help and connections, and they have indeed helped Blacks from that perspective.
ReplyDeleteBut that's what I RAIL against. The idea that "we" constantly need help and that the "help" should come from someone White. That's debilitating from a self-esteem perspective and we've got to move beyond that way of thinking. We're still too stuck in it.
Barack's run is a full-force counter-message that I've preached for years. It's nice to see that the World's catching up to me.
Gini
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, but you should be ashamed of yourself. This is not going to do any good for Obama and the rest of the Democratic party. You are throwing a very serious and offensive label on another person. If you are going to do that then you really need a much better argument. As for Hillary dissing MLK, she was simply saying that it took a President to get legislation passed, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which is historically accurate so I fail to see the racism.
Why do people feel the need to begin with "I'm sorry" and "I don't mean to be disrespectful"?There is no reason to apologize for calling these ridiculous unfounded charges what they are....garbage. If you believe you are doing something that will help race relations or how the races live together you are sadly mistaken.
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