Letters to the Editor
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White Grandmother
That's what I am, a white grandmother, a jewish, liberal, east coast, highly educated one who grew up in the segregated south and fought for civil rights in the 50's and 60's.
When I see a black or brown man approaching me on a deserted street, I make eye contact and smile at him. I began doing this decades ago and the responses I've gotten have been amazing [and sad.] Sad because usually I see startle, shock, in their eyes at first and then I get a big, happy smile in return. Obama's grannie apparently is one of those misguided women who crosses the street and avoids contact.
This race has been about race from the start. That's the only reason Hillary is still in the race since she's clearly lost. If Obama were white, she'd have been forced to withdraw by now. I'm a 'yellow-dog' democrat and won't vote for her anyway because she's scorched the earth and is tearing the party apart.
There's no way for the democrats to give her the nomination that won't tear the party apart and lose them the presidency in November.
Billary are the ones who don't love this country!
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Just When I Send in my Full-Price Renewal!
...and I really debated doing it almost solely because of some of Walsh's more recent 'stuff', but then I thought about the good it would do Salon.
Well, if only I had been making the choice today instead of last weekend. Yes, it would have been very different.
And to my life easier, I'm 'reprinting' Glennski's reply from way back at the beginning because it sums up the problem (and solution) perfectly & succinctly. Walsh seriously needs to take a break... until about the second week in November.
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Joan, Why Not Follow Sidney Blumenthal's Example and Step Down Awhile?
At least Sidney had the character to realize he couldn't write a column while being an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton, so he stepped down. How I miss his columns on Salon.
Joan, you're not being honest with us. You continue to write columns that seem straight out of Fox News. You nitpick about the "typical white person" out of context comment, and then tell us with a straight face that you sure hope he can move on to other things soon. Criminy!
Maybe you should ask Cary Tennis what to do about this conflict you are having. He's full of good advice, and I'd hope he'd tell you to take a hiatus. We can all see you have lost your objectivity.
There's nothing wrong with being a Hillary supporter, Joan. It's not for me, but if it's your course go ahead and follow that course. Take a break and admit that your readers can no longer respect your journalistic skills as long as you continue to "pretend" to be neutral. You'll feel better, and we will enjoy Salon all the more.
-- Glennski
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Umm, let me guess, MICKI
you support Hillary. (transparent menopausal)
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Richardson succumbed to Bill! Endorsed Obama AFTER primary! Hello?
Richardson's endorsement of Obama should have been made BEFORE the primary if he really was supporting Obama, no, Bill Clinton's persuasion worked! That's why,
I'm 100% behind Hillary because...of Bill!!
He' is to be treasured, he has one of the finest political minds since FDR! Wake up Democrats, he's our best asset to fight the GOP, and you want to throw him/her under the bus! You have fallen for Obama/ right-wing propaganda! I want these gifted people on my side. Udercutting the Clintons only serves the competition! Stop trashing Bill Clinton!
T. Barr
Scottsdale, AZ
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"typical clueless lazy pundit hack person,"
You should quit Salon, we are sick of your partisan hackery. I'm sure you can get a job at the Jeremiah Wright Channel, aka Fox News, as the token "reasonable liberal" who is outraged....Outraged, I say!....about non-issues like Obama's reverse racism. Keep feeding into the Right Wing Noise Machine.
Some people get it, some people don't, it is sadly clear that while you once "got it" now you no longer do. You are just another lazy, shallow politics-as-bloodsport non-issue hack.
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back off Joan
Everyone, can we please resist the urge to wax vitriolic against Joan?
It's legitimate to criticize her writing, her apparent lack of perspective, her opinions, etc.
But please, can we show some human decency?
The woman is a human being and what's more, she's clearly trying to engage and to respond to her critics, which is very much to her credit.
I agree that her musings are frustratingly obtuse, but please, can we all try to be guided by our better angels?
Really, how can we expect to create a peaceful world if we can't even be peaceful with one another in a forum such as this?
And by "peaceful" please don't read "tepid" or "banal."
That's not what I mean at all.
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You're so liberal you sound right wing.
Either Obama will stand up to scrutiny or he won't. Many here have obviously made their minds up and they damn anyone who disagrees with their point of view. How liberal is that? Sounds right wing to me just like my W loving friends.
Obama will be scrutinized, he will stand up to it, appeal to a majority of Americans, or he won't. Attacking anyone who disagrees with you won't change that. Hell, I think Jeremiah Wright is far more balanced than many of you posting here. Okay, you're not racist but you're intolerant? Sounds contradictory to me.
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from what i understand of the black understanding of racism, MacK..
the two irish brothers WEREN'T racist. not inviting home, being friendly, is distaste, not racism. discriminating so you can't work is racism (sometimes called "institutional racism"). the white perception is seen in Pyrrho's post. At least that's my understanding. as a white person i would not be so acutely attuned to institutional racism, would I? (i'd never SEE it)
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@sugarman
What is your solution? I am ready to listen. But it is hard to imagine a racial discussion with another white person if that is what you are.
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David Sugarman, there's nothing in the least ugly about my nose. How about yours? I hope it's not as ugly as your temper.
I'd be profoundly grateful if America went back to its isolationist policy and kept its collective nose out of other world regions. Five million Iraqis are refugees in Jordan and Syria because of your government poking its "ugly nose" into places where all its meddling has caused death and destruction. From your eruption I must deduce that Americans own cyberspace, that they own the English language, that they're entitled to grab the oilfields in the Middle East, that only white Americans are white, that the separation of church and state is a charade, that Americans see nothing wrong with presidential candidates spending millions and milions to be elected while people lose their jobs and countless others all over the world go hungry.
Now, Mr. Sugarman, I don't find you very sweet but I'll leave you to stew in your own juices. I've an opinion, worthless and all as it may seem from your point of view, but you'd like to have my opinion censored. That's the nub of your outburst, Mr. Sugarman. McCain was in London this week, doing is presidential thing, while Clinton and Obama supporters, in particular, are frenetic about race, religion, a "typically white person" and the like. I should feel chastened but I don't. Unlike you, I don't think America is the world. Most people now identify America with a massive war-machine and with rank hypocrisy. Nancy Pelosi met the Dalai Lama yesterday and issued a warning to China about violence in Tibet. In the meanwhile, keep on arguing about race while the dollar goes down the Swanee, the whole world can see your own version of the mad mullahs and the dissolution of the United States, no matter what the DNA of the next President may be.
Two English molecular scientists, Francis Crick and James D. Watson discovered the secrets of the genetic code(DNA) in the l950s but James Watson stepped out of line a few months ago when he gave an opinion. He was silenced and "retired". That's the American way so graphically demonstrated on this site. The Australian, Rupert Murdoch, owns a large chunk of your media, banks from the Gulf States have at least five-fingers in your money-pie but, Lord luvva duck, your arrogance is undiminished.
"The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a tragedy - for Iraq, for the US, for the UN, for truth and human dignity", the former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq, Hans Blitz. said this week.
But what would he know! He's only a "typical white person".