Letters to the Editor
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I did see the interview (I wasn't even aware going into the show that she was going to be on, so it was a pleasant surprise), and you're right that she did attempt to make it clear she didn't consider herself, or "African-Americans" generally, as somehow superior to Obama.
That said, why bother creating the distinction? What does she gain, or hope to gain, through all this? Would Obama be less attentive to the needs of "African-American" community than, say, Hillary or Edwards or Jeb? Somehow I doubt it. What is the endgame? Is she holding out for the genuine article? If so, and if the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are the most viable candidates her "people" can produce, well, she's going to be in for a pretty damn long wait because those guys wouldn't beat Admiral Stockdale. It's kind of hard to win a national vote when you're busy demonizing 3/4 of the country's population.
I just don't get her tack or what she's trying to prove. I have no idea what she hopes to gain by her continuous efforts to divide and polarize people and groups. It's so frustrating and stupid. As I've posted before, all this slavish dedication to nitpicking and classifying people based on hereditary traits (after all, Obama grew up here) smacks of neo-phrenology to me. Dickerson should pick up some books about the lives and philosophies of D.F. Malan or J.G. Strijdom, it'll provide a handy roadmap for her ideal paradise of a society neatly compartmentalized by race.