Letters to the Editor
-
Chris Rock jokes do not a substantial essay make
"Hillary Clinton, the first Latina in chief?"
Short answer: NO.
She's a privileged white lady who, as the author correctly observed before trying to deny it, "detected tension in the brown-black relationship and exploited it".
She's also running a campaign which has used people of color to do her dirty race baiting work, as with Reverend Wright, and it looks like Joan Walsh is doing the same thing.
Just because some Hispanic Clinton supporter writes an essay doesn't make it true - especially as he doesn't present any facts, statistics or substantiated sources for his assertion. He doesn't even link to studies or polls showing more Hispanics have voted for Clinton, let alone polls provide transparencey on their sampling of minorities - which is a big issue with increasing evidence of inaccuracies.
That whole "Bill is the first Black President" stuff? It was a joke which some try to present seriously. More importantly Toni Morrison didn't say it first, she was quoting a Chris Rock stand up routine. Clinton supporters like to lie about this little detail because it reveals the assertion for the farce it really is. That this essayist repeats this deception reveals the emptiness of his argument.
For a real idea of the Clinton's on race, how about we examine Bill's treatment of Jesse Jackson and Sister Souljah? That is the Clinton's who persist to this day, race baiting and arrogantly appropriating status.
The only time minorities need to anoint someone an "honorary" anything is when there is no hope of a real representative. Well guess what? There is a real minority this time and Clinton supporters ought to stop with the divisive racist propoganda.