Letters to the Editor
Gams on Glass
Published Letters: 279 Editor's Choice: 6
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Who started with the racialism
[Read the article: My sanest conversation on TV, ever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was certainly the media, as I have been jabbering on about all around town for weeks. I see Obama being 'blackified' by the media, and in place of a human being, a color being injected. Potentially, by the time of the Convention, McCain will have been annointed and will look, to the neutral, like a wisened ol' tough guy, and Obama, who I support and expect to win, will look grizzled, racialized, and exposed by the antics of the self-immolation both Clinton and Obama supporters seem keen on.
But as far as which campaign introduced race as a topic first.. it was without any doubt the Obama camp, when Jesse Jackson the Lesser came out in New Hampshire, well before SC, and said that HClinton's Teary Eyed Moment was A) fake and b) to be examined "in light of Katrina, and other events at which she did not cry" especially "in light of South Carolina" where 45% of the voters will be african american. This was the first major attack along these lines, and I don't see anyone can doubt it. You can say what you wish about any other allusions or dropped words, or changed tonalities, but this is the first overtly racial appeal in the election.
And maureenodonnell: are you suggesting, through codewords and subtext, that there is something wrong with my keeping my mother labia in a box under the floorboards???
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Maureen-O, Anonymous, and general
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, perhaps an admixture of red light district ideation and 'Put 'em on the glass' a song by the famed American Composer, Sir Mix-A-Lot. Presumably, the legs are long, lithe and sexy and pressed on peepshow windows.... but mostly it was that someone had just used the word gams in a movie i was watching and the sir-mix-a-lot song had been heard recently, so, having no more witty a name, I felt I ought act on impulse. So, here I am.
Anonymous: "In plain English: the Clintons are worried that they received only marginal gains from the race tactic."... As I have pointed out, I anyone was sending racial appeals, it was Obama's folks, notably JJackson Jr's jibberish about Clinton's tears being 'fake' and that she didn;t cry during the Katrina disaster... and then 'warned' that SC was 45% black.... so there you go. The proposition that the Clinton's went the racial route are patently false. And to state again, I am catagorically an Obama supportor, at least if the opposition must be HClinton only.
In General: Despicably, even in light of Joan's admission of media (and in my mind, Salon.com's) culpability in racializing the election, CNN is on right now, CONSTANTLY, not incidentally, refering to 'white votes' and 'black votes' at least every 60 seconds. I've never seen anything like it, although I suspect I will again.
Annnnnd, since I am listening and watching, apparently Obama just won a district chock-full of 'white votes.'
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Amilcar
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thrasher... In light of this tremendous victory, I await your apology to BOTH Amilcar Cabral and Frantz Fanon, who you have dismissed so lightly.
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Unbelievable
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have never seen such ridiculous tolerance for amoral behaviour. I myself was an awkward, geeky teenager who 'grew up very nicely' to quote Marlon Brando in On The Waterfront ... I would not be so absurdly self-absorbed as to call myself hot/beautiful, etc.
Look, alot of things might be natural to humankind. Perhaps polyamory could fit that description, but violence is also something that could be said to fit right into nature's plan for us, yet I doubt many people would be writing here saying its 'oaky' or 'natural' and that you should just sit down with your husband and explain that you quite enjoy knocking in the skulls of pedestrians with a flat rock.
To toot my own horn: aside from one (what I would consider shameful) small slip up when I was in college I have never been unfaithful. Beleive me, as the spazzy, weird teen I was, the opportunity to 'strike while the iron is hot' reflex is one I understand, yet I managed to turn away a few comers including what would have been the most attractive sexual partner I would have managed to get my mangled claws on, and for whom I had long pined away for.
The thing is, I am sure the husband sometimes thinks ripping off some woman's clothes at any given time seems appealing. but, you know what happend? He grew up and decided he wanted to marry you.
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Not big Nationally
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]But Waters has a good deal of clout in California's so-called 'black community' so it is a reasonable endorsement.
However, even if voters and specifically black voters love waters twice as much as they do, I just don't think anyone determines their votes on the fact that some other politician they somewhat like says to vote a particuar way.
Yesterday, even with the big Kennedy name, my reflection was 'so what?' Who cares ?
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Prison segregation
[Read the article: Obama and race in California]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone is particularly purturbed by the segregation in prisons.... pretty obvious that racial strife, violence and rioting is why. I understand not wanting the governemt funding segregated wings... but, hell, exception circumstances.....
We're not going to push for gender integration in prisons either, even though we openly push for it in the workplace and schools.
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Alas
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Too bad for Mudcat that Obama's trade and economic approach is as new Democrat/Third Way as you get....