Letters to the Editor
ShawnWM
Published Letters: 1029 Editor's Choice: 4
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@David
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If 100% of the white vote was voting for HRC" - we wouldn't be talking about it. she'd just be winning.
I don't agree with that at all. In general, and I emph. this is my experience, but I find blacks to be much more preoccupied with race than whites. I understand I've spoken some unspeakable in saying that and it clearly touches a lot of nerves. For some reason liberals are very willing to tolerate racism from blacks that they wouldn't tolerate from whites and I just wish that weren't so as it's just as ugly and I believe the reluctance to hold everyone to the same standard of conduct has cost us many constituencies.
what is magical is that a biracial black male with a muslim name is beating the best of them in the race to become president of the U.S. to me, that's a cause for celebration.
It is. It's sincerely wonderful. But it's not enough to make him entitled to the presidency just because of it which is the feeling I get from Kstone and the other people who substitute personal attacks and rhetoric for substance. I don't think so in my honest Democratic judgement so therefore I'm certain that independents and Republicans won't think that.
Now as never before with the country the country drowning in red ink, with foreign policy problems and instability growing near daily, with our infrastructure collapsing, the loss of major industries abroad so fast it's as if Houdini were here, it's just not the time to front a candidate just because he's black. Salon is wrong. It's not okay. And since blacks are likely to continue to suffer more than anyone else due to the pending fallouts in my opinion it's also a disservice to them to vote for someone with no record of helping them over someone with an established one.
since "stealth care" i've never liked hillary, but i DO like a lot of you, so i keep most of my slurs to a minimum. However if something means a lot to you - which obama's victory means to me - you can get a little ... exercised - and that's good. Joan Walsh understands this and leaves most of it in, God Bless Her!
well, yes. I understand people get heated and infused in politics and I'm sure we've seen nothing yet with what's coming in November from an overfunded GOP looking at a surprisingly simple win now, but I still resent the knee-jerks who insist that I can't possibly be finding fault in Obama for any other reason other than my supposed patent racism. It's alienating me and many other HRC supporters and truthfully it's getting harder and harder to just forgive and forget it as they sit their on their butts as selected judge and jury to decide who the "good" HRC supporters are and who the "bad" ones are insisting they know things about you that you don't know yourself.
If you're proven right in your premature fetching of your champagne glasses and Obama does become the nominee this race-baiting and calling people who obviously aren't racist which has been going on since South Carolina may turn out to be the Obama campaigns biggest mistake of all.
Nightie now, really.
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@kstone
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Kstone, Talk about stale, if I meant it I'd say I'm sorry I didn't please you by going into a long-winded discussion of how I don't really know what it's like to be black while deferring to your expertise on the matter and admitting I just realized I was prejudiced after all, or whatever needy little hot-button you have ...and apparently have found others willing to play to.
But this general election is about ALL the people of the country of all colors whom I firmly believe based on past hx will be far better served by an HRC presidency.
How anyone who lived through the Clinton and then the Bush Administration could conclude anything else is the only real source of amazement to me.
Tewdles.