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You can have your own opinions of blackness. Unlike you, I do not think that we all have to think the same way. Go ahead, though, buy into the stereotype white people have of us that we all think the same.
As for Diallo, Louima, Dorismond, et. al., I have heard of their names. I was almost trampled near Battery Park by a mounted police officer and a few hours before hand, I was part of the mob that bypassed police barricades on 42nd and 5th by climbing over the stone fence on the north west side of the New York Public Library. So yeah, I am from "Gotham," as you put it.
You want to call me a hater? Fine. I'll call you a Stan, as we black people like to say.
Just because I do not want to kiss Obama's ass or buy into the myth that he is the best choice to fix the problems our country is having, does not make me a hater. But, he was elected, so he is the only choice.
I respect and admire Senator Clinton, and would prefer that she not take part in the Obama administration, that's all. She should lay low in the Senate if she wants to be governor or she can continue to represent people like me, one of her constituents, and not be a rubber stamp for Obama. Let his other groupies in the Senate do that. She should show she has an ounce of self-respect and leave her mark.
You Obama stans get so agitated if someone doesn't want to kiss his feet. Calm down. There is room for all of us at the table. Isn't that what your Saint Obama might say...in public, at least?
