Letters to the Editor
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@calgodot
"Priviledged"? By what standard are you holding people in this regard and how do you know Joan's private life or her economic status?
Or are you labeling her "priviledged" merely because she is white? That is how you are framing this discussion and that makes you no better than the people you claim are using race as a device. You sound a little bit like another poster here who goes on tirades against entire groups of people without ever meeting them. Look up the word racism in the dictionary and then post when you aren't leaning toward the hypocritical stance. You simply cannot have it both ways.
You have taken the MLK quote by HRC out of context again. She said that it takes work by an administration to push through the ideas of visionaries like King. That is all. No one here is attempting to diminish the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. If you read into that then you are projecting your own bias and racial intolerance into the discussion. I do not even favor Hilary and I do not personally know Joan, but if you look at the facts, your comments are completely untrue.
It isn't that contrived. There is no nefarious master plan to bring people of color down in this political race. If there was such a plan, do you really believe it would be generated by Joan Walsh or anyone with a record of fighting for cilvil rights? Maybe you'd better start gathering your ammunition against the other side instead of attacking the soldiers next to you.
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GOOD question anon
I want Obama in office because I agree with him on most issues. That said, I do wonder if this question will be answered:
"Will it still be racism to question anything Obama says or does
AFTER he is elected."
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Yeah, seriously CALGODOT or thrasher or whoever you are....
Whitewash?
Privledge?
"white people.... can't live with em"
WTF?
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anonymous 12:56
Absolutely. Hillary won NH because of her ovaries. And no, 50% of whites did not vote for Obama in SC. Over 80% of blacks did voted for Obama in SC.
You may not like the implications of Obama being linked to Rice, Powell and Thomas, but let's face it. His campaign, is a campaign of pedantic sloganeering, unity, healing, kumbaya. The reality is that Obama will first divide and then try to unite, will inflict and damage the party and then he will try to heal, will be a "new" democrat and then sing hallejuha with the republicans and their right wing base.
hmmmmmmph!!
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except
"Will it still be racism to question anything Obama says or does
AFTER he is elected."
I don't see the questions of racism coming up in regard to anything Obama has said or done. No one has asked questions about his health plan and been called a racist? Have you? If that's happened I haven't seen it.
No, the race question keeps coming up in regard to what he has no control over at this point--primarily his accomplishments and a condescending diminishing of them. Ie. He won across Demographic lines, but this was "only" a racial win in South Carolina.
Or both Clinton and Edwards considered or did run for President after one term in the Senate and no one accused them of being ridiculously "unqualified." Yet that charge has been made at Obama who has been longer in elected office than Clinton or Edwards. Is it a racist charge? I'm not calling it racist--but I think race is playing a role.
In a similary way, gender plays a role in Clinton's campaign whether she wants it to or not. For this reason I don't watch MSN--when I see the "boys" pile it on Clinton it angers me on her behalf (and I am an Obama supporter). I don't want to vote for her just because of the way they're treating her--but I can imagine being influenced like this if I kept watching it.
It bothers me when people who seem to think that it's Obama's fault (or God forbid part of his strategy) every time the question of race comes up--I don't think they're being honest about the role race plays in American society--regardless of who the players are. Some in our society look at people through a racial lens (we all do to an extent) and some through a gender lens (we all do to some extent). This isn't the candidates fault--and I think discussing where race and gender play a role has to be done to level the playing field.
If you think that obama is using race as an excuse when he is questioned over some of his policies--then you'll have to bring up some examples. I haven't seen that happen. I wish that the American people could judge all of the candidates on the content of their character. End of story. --and to be fair to the American people--I see a lot more people doing that then people presumed when this contest began. Most people I know are basing their decision on their hearts and minds, and not out of their fears about having a woman or a black man as president....
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When White Voters Step Up ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE..
Given the lousy economy and the nitemare in Iraq our next president will be a Democrat.
White America created a possibility like an Obama with it's ugly racial chemistry( one drop rule) so White America can also create a solution...
At the end of day early into this century and only at this moment in history the World still revolves around White Folks. White voters and White voters alone can elevate our country to the mountain top..
Are White Voters up to the test???
I make a difference..Do YOU
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 01:12 PM
Rush! It's so nice that you could stop by!
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Uh.....
"50% of whites did not vote for Obama in SC."
50 % of whites 30 and under did --and the category of whites that Obama really lost to were the very oldest category....you know people that were around in the days of Jim Crow and might have had an agenda of their own.
Just saying...
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misquoting statistics - let's be responsible here
"Absolutely. Hillary won NH because of her ovaries. And no, 50% of whites did not vote for Obama in SC. Over 80% of blacks did voted for Obama in SC."
Nobody ever said Obama won 50% of the white vote. He won 50% of the white vote UNDER 30. That's a big difference.
"Hillary won NH because of her ovaries"-- that's a nice touch, too. must be tough for you living in a world in which women and people of color are going to increasingly crop up in places of power.