Letters to the Editor
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Respect and Courtesy
I couldn't agree more that we need respect and courtesy. However, I certainly don't equate Obama's well-intended if clumsy remarks about blue-collar whites to Hillary's clear efforts to draw racial lines between herself and the "black candidate". That was not a well-intended remark. Clinton was signaling the supers to ignore the will of the voters and to toss aside the legitimate nominee in favor of capitualting to fear and bigotry. Obama was trying to provide a context for the attitudes he faces, Hillary was playing politics.
To be clear, I don't think Hillary really intended to imply that blacks were not hardworking or that only whites were hardworking. I think she simply had difficulty voicing a clearly contraversial topic and got caught up in her own words. That however should have been a signal to leave out racial terminology and perhaps just stick with "working class voters."