Letters to the Editor
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"Racial Pride" as the be-all-to-end-all? More Excuses
"A lot of you are lying your asses off. The vast majority of blacks are voting for Obama out of a sense racial pride and hoping to be part of electing the first black POTUS. Period...."
Racial pride is certainly part of it but it certainly isn't the whole story...and a reasonable person should know that. The Clinton's are losing 9 to 1 because they didn't know the black electorate as well as they thought they did and, as is so often the case with white-black interaction in this country, they didn't know themselves well enough re the matter of race as they thought they did; hence, they came off looking like klutzes and as far from the bi-racial travellers they probably fancied themselves to be.
They attempted to "darken" Obama, marginalise him and patronised the electorate they thought they knew so well [a miscalculation that led to that minstrelsy of a dialect show Hillary gave to a southern black woman church group, in 2007]. As I've often noticed, the African-American community seems to be able to cut through the bs and see things for what they are--especially, in presidential election years, where it is seemingly uniquely situated to be able to recognise a pig-in-a poke [the latter day GOP] for what it is--unlike many traditional Democratic electorates that have, it appears, no trouble with voting against their interests--and, in this current election cycle, the directors of a racial kabuki play in three acts.
You want to blame someone for the lop-sided AA votes against Clinton's candidacy? Blame Mark Penn and, yes, Hillary for having willingly allowed herself to have been a part of his insulting travesty of a campaign. Now, she's boxed in with a part of the Democratic electorate that has, with the exception of the Roosevelt administration and, perhaps, the Kennedy/Johnson years, never failed to pull off the dextrous feat of kicking themselves in the ass when it comes to voting their own interests in a Presidential campaign year.