Letters to the Editor
ShawnWM
Published Letters: 1029 Editor's Choice: 4
-
@LLB - my point exactly. Here are the FACTS.
[Read the article: Clinton wins Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Really? Condi wasn't first? Just because black people are appointed to positions does not mean that progress for the entire race was made
My point exactly.
As for the rest, anecdotal evidence and two bucks will get you a cup of coffee.
You are trying to rewrite history in a fit of patent racism and it does not serve your interests. There is a reason many black superdels, Maxine Waters and many black civil rights leaders support Clinton.
The short version is the MEDIAN (much better than avg) black income rose 33% in the Clinton years adjusted for inflation. From 1993: $27,731. By 2000: $36,939
Black poverty also fell considerably as I already stated: from 33.1 percent to 22 percent.
Not bad for 8 years, eh? So if somebody resigned in "disgust" I'd have to think they were from another planet breathing air of a different atomic composition.
http://www.jbhe.com/latest/index081006_p.html
This is also documented by Paul Krugman, the Statistical Abstract of the United States, and innumerous other sources which you are as capable of researching as I am.
I should add that under George W. Bush black people lost near ALL of these gains. You might consider this before you de facto, elect John McCain. That' be a pretty self-destructive racist rant if you ask me.
Forget race and support the person who gave you results, not an elitist that happens to be half black.
-
@liberty
[Read the article: Clinton wins Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, candidates have won without Missouri. Obama only won there because of the heavy black vote in Kansas City voted for him 100%. Big numbers of Dems in Missouri are black.
But even if they all turned out for him in November it isn't enough to carry rural Missouri which is predominantly Republican.
Missouri is not an easy state for a Dem to win; but it is not a MUST state either. NJ and California are, as is Michigan, NY and Florida, and Obama did not win those.
You have to think electorally. It's great that Obama won a college district in Idaho and some solidly Republican states in the deep south, but there's no way in heck Alabama, Miss, Idaho and SC are going to go Dem regardless of whom our candidate is.
But now try to win as a Dem without NJ and CAlifornia. Can't be done.
-
'cuse me.
[Read the article: Clinton wins Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Libertyson but the ONLY conversation any serious Dem needs to be asking now is who is winning the states that Democrats NEED to win an election: NY,NJ,FL,MG,NJ,PN,OH,CA and the SW (which will be tough against McCain as he hails from there so nominationg a candidate that hispanics aren't going for isn't particularly smart). It's Mrs. Clinton who has won these states with large margins.
If you're serious about helping black people than you'd want a Dem to win, and would have no objection to one with a solid record of good progress for minorities.
-
@ljwalker
[Read the article: Clinton wins Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She has something like 18 flag officers of the U.S. Armed Services who support her candidacy. Haven't seen any for Sen. McCain.
She has 30 I think.
-
@villemar
[Read the article: Clinton wins Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please don't insult my intelligence and everyone else and please stop being so... vile. You are the one making race an issue, not Hillary.
Black people have always been concerned more about economics and health care than Iraq - for good reasons. So there'd be no reason for them to side with the uber-liberal white affluents in Vermont and to be voting (statistically) > 90% for Obama if it wasn't because he was black, much less to be threatening and pressuing black superdelgates to switch their committed loyalties. If it isn't about race than what IS it about? Certainly not that Obama's ever brought any "CHANGE" to his black constituents; rather they're worse off than ever.
The fact is that blacks were overwhelmingly in Clinton's camp until Oprah started spending big bucks promoting him as the and trying to convince he was viable (he isn't) and then he took it from there by using Rovian race-baiting tactics to win SC by cherry-picking a perfectly legit speech, leaking it to the press, and trying to insist she was dissing King because she happened to say the truth: LBJ was the instrumental in black civil rights as the legislator (King was the visionary). We know Obama's campaign did this despite their original denial; he denied it until a four page memo surfaced on the internet proving it. Thta's the second time his campaign denied doing something until there was conclusive proof. Which I don't like.
So he lied about the Clintons and started a race war. And we all know it. Because the memo surfaced and there's PROOF. This put many black politicians who DID support HRC in the position of fearing they'd lose their seat next election if they didn't jump on the bandwagon. Not a very nice thing to do to them, btw. If you didn't trust their judgement why'd you vote for them.
Anyway, I'm not going to argue with you about this all night. I don't see where Obama or Oprah have ever done much for poor blacks. Oprah's audience is affluent white women, not black women, and Obama as pointed out repeatedly, has done nothing at all to help his poor black constituents of any measure.
-
Okay Obamateur's - do you want the "will of the people"???
[Read the article: Obama insists losses change nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]HRC 2008
GO GIRL GO
BIG KISSES TO OHIO and to TEXAS , yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!
Superdels, hold onto your pants. You picked the right girl!!
Pennsylvania is next!!!
YEAH!!!
-
yeah yeah, Hutman
[Read the article: Obama insists losses change nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dems always win the cities and still will. it's the outlaying areas that we had LOST for 25 years that was the problem.
HRC has proven tonight that we can beat McCain! This is a happy day. Be happy insteed of destructive. Time to unite the party again and this time with the right, viable candidate.
YEAH