Letters to the Editor
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Who else does not care?
Too few stories discuss substance, like the candidates positions on the issues. I still don't have agood feel for the details of Obama's positions on education, foreign policy, but I know way too much about how the media FEELS about him.
Can we have a nice spread with all of the candidates positions (or non-positions) set out against each other? Obama will do this, while Edwards will to that,topic by topic?
That would help me. This article is just more of the same.
I REALLY hate this election now. I'm begining to tune out this "horse race" style coverage.
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What? Stop the practice of grievance politics? End identity politics?
Then you wouldn't be Democrats anymore, right?
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Lots of good truth nuggets here
Thank you for the article. I was happy to read this AM that Obama and Clinton have made complete peace with the MLK comments, on his birthday. It seemed strange that two people so passionate about about civil rights would have everyone around them fighting because each represents something. This takes a powerful political force and diminishes Him or Her into a token, exactly what the opposition hoped for.
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The Clinton administration was really a disaster for race in America
When Bill Clinton escalated the War on Pot and helped triple the national arrest rate, the people he hurt the most happened to be young black men.
He didn't rescue them from drugs by doing that. He made sure that their drug use would get them criminal records.
That is a fact. That was a measurable outcome of his presidency. You can count the bodies. People have.
Now people are trying to talk about race WITHOUT talking about that fact -- the fact of how Bill Clinton built bipartisan relations in Congress by sacrificing young black men.
You don't want to talk about it here -- but it's still true. It still really did happen.
And he didn't save the world by doing that either, even though he made it sound like all that paranoia and prejudice really was going to save the world.
Look around at the world now -- millions of marijuana users arrested, and the world is not saved.
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Ignore the race truce by Hillary & Obama: Our country needs to continue a candid, angry, confrontational, tears flowing discourse on race
I have no intentions of surrendering, retreating, or handcuffing myself with regard to such an important daily issue.
Hillary & Obama's agenda's do not define the nature of race in this country. Kamiya simply does not understand the depth of contempt for people who look like me in this country. From my vantage point a white liberal woman or any gender woman regardless of race or ethnicity with regard to Black males our paths have no parity never did and never will.
I can argue that black females can appreciate this reality about racism on this soil but privledged white woman like Hillary obviously cannot given her discounting of MLK. Being on the end of shared grievances does not mean shared results.
The notion that gender is congruent with race is a fiction marketed by white feminists to non-white woman and it has never been a best seller..
I found the banter quite revealing and educational especially when it got nasty and gritty. I am so tired of shallow commentaries like Kamiya's they only prolonged the wedge and smother the truth..
I also find it amazing how so many people have the "good soilder mentality" they take marching orders from some so-called higher authority.
I represent a linage of thought and reality that has elevated and developed in the midst of white oppression on this soil. I represent a collective of black males that have survived the diease of white racism,. I have been out of recovery for decades. Now is not the time to lay down my cultural dna in truth there is never a moment to stop living as a black man
I am ignoring all white flags ,honesty and candor brings fresh air and growth...
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I'm with Domini
I feel like I'm back in high school. The whole thing is appalling. I want all of them to stop gossiping, squabbling and sniping... stop telling me why I shouldn't vote for him or her. Tell me why I should vote for you. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? Is it really that difficult a concept?
If only Democrats could sling mud back at Republicans the way they sling it at each other. Perhaps we wouldn't be in this mess (i.e. second Bush term) right now.
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I hate this too
It's a good article, but I hate this is what we are discussing now. It's not that it's not a necessary discussion/fight for the country some time. Remember when gays decided there needed to be public marriage ceremonies right now, right now before a election, when conservatives would get up in arms and vote in vast numbers Republican? This is how the left cuts off not only it's foot, but embracing arms. I'm not supporting Obama because I seriously can't figure out what he stands for in practicality and he certainly didn't take his senatorial duties seriously when we elected him to them. Loftier goals--but not down in the dirty mud work. I'm not supporting Clinton because of her Iraq vote and because I don't want to go back in time. I think they will both be tied big time to lobbyists--Obama probably more than he knows. Clinton I suspect has full awareness but no real reason to push against it, since she knows how it is done. I'm supporting Edwards because I understand his policies and for the most part think they will be good for the middle-class. I would love to support either a black man or woman for president but I am neither racist enough nor sexist enough to do so on those qualities alone.
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Comfortable or Just Able
"It's easy to forget that one of the reasons Clinton is casually embraced and denounced, and kicked around like an old shoe over the water cooler, is because Americans feel comfortable enough with women to use the familiar mode of address with them."
Is it that Americans feel comfortable with women and that is why Hillary Clinton has the most bad press? Or is it that Americans don't have the same misgivings about degrading women as they do about race? I don't think comfortable is the right word here.
"A different female candidate would not be subjected to the flak that she rightly or wrongly attracts."
Could another female candidate gone as far as Hillary has? If having Bill Clinton as a husband has hindered Hillary Clinton in the press, than she has overcome a lot to get where she is, something "a different female candidate" (someone who the American public did not see overcome personal struggles) might not have been able to do. There is a reason Hillary is the first real woman contender for president.