newsletter, newspaper, grapevine, facebook, myspace site 24/7. I hope all of you can now observe how unqualified and shallow she is..

Yeah my home boys going to eat this up.....

the notion that this basic human rights act needed some executive or congressional clout is bullshit.

Truth is despite the lack of interest for civil rights in this country( really sad that whites had to be legally compelled to be human and civil) no white counterpart like MLK was pushing for this act.

Hillary revisionist act speaks to the failure and lack of white leaders in this country even now in 2008. I continue to make the argument that whites have no history on this soil of cultivating and producing great leaders like MLK, Malcom, Parks, Jordan, Chishom, Roberson and the like..

Hillary's dismissal of MLK again proves my point..

Lyndon Johnson, Southerner and Texan and former congressional arm twister, was the president who was able to put into practical action the vision of civil rights leaders precisely because he was not seen as Northern Ivy League elitist by Southerners. Johnson was able to get the Civil Rights act passed because he understood congress and how to do a bit of horse trading.

Martin Luther King was the inspiring speaker and civil rights leader who made people understand that his vision could be reality and made white America ashamed that it was not already reality. He allowed people to see the injustice. He allowed people to see the possibilities.

Both leaders were essential to change. Each played a very different role.

As to Senator Clinton's statement and how it might relate to the current campaign, Grieve has kindly given us the correct quote so that it may not be distorted. Thank you, Tim Grieve. Now we may each interpret it as we please. I choose to interpret it as Clinton's way of saying that change takes a doer rather than a hoper. As to the racial subtext, we can guess and we can argue and we can encourage divisiveness.

As a John Edwards supporter, I encourage all of you to have a spitting fight. It can only help my candidate.

Tim Grieve, I find the American obsession with race and gender stupefying. In one corner, apparently, you have the "black" Democrat candidate born of a white woman and brought up by another white woman; in the other is the quintessential "feminist" who has been excoriated for not divorcing her lascivious husband. America seems to have regressed into some mammoth burlesque with all this nonsense, while your economy totters and most informed Europeans are aware that China is well on the way to becoming the mega-economy of the future. I've read and seen more about the American primaries than I've ever done in my life, thanks to the Internet, and it seems to me that the American media is running the show. Barack Obama is closer in age to many columnists and is their chosen candidate. The Civil Rights struggle has no reference to him although it is now being imposed on the narrative. Even I, living thousands of miles away, know that Senator Obama is the son of an African born in freedom on his own continent. I fully appreciate the sufferings of women like the heroic Rosa Parks but I have to wonder if Ann Dunham, born in Kansas in l940, ever marched for civil rights or did anything brave to rectify the injustice inherent in segregated America. As you undoubtedly know, she was Barack Obama's mother. As the world watches, the American electorate is not being asked about issues that affect not only Americans but every person on earth. Meanwhile,you all squabble about who is the reincarnation of JFK or MLK, who was actually the descendant of slaves. This is pathetic stuff and, although I'm not the reincarnation of Emile Zola, I accuse the American media of being a crowd of dunces who haven;t the wit or wisdom to deal with what really matters. Mitt Romney's jawline, John Edwards haircut, Huckabee's "holy roller" type of faith.......Grrr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is the most influential man in my life, and he was shot before I was even born.

Hillary Clinton did discount my hero's significant, but that wasn't all she and her husband did and said on Monday and Tuesday when they thought they were going to lose New Hampshire that disappointed me.

Hillary getting choked up while she said I four times in a two sentence answer to "how do you do it" made me sick, and I am still appalled by her Husband's "Fairy Tail" remark. If the Clintons are projected to politically lose, then they should be ready and willing to lose gracefully, especially to a fellow Democrat, rather than debase themselves to desperate and despicable tactics.

What else can we expect for the Clintons to do when their chips are down?

Senator Clinton was expressing the idea that sometimes it takes experience to move dreams into reality. It was not a slight against Dr. King -- unless, of course, someone is deliberately looking for reasons to slam Hillary. Perhaps it was not artfully worded, but the thought that she would denigrate the work of Dr. King is ridiculous. If you want to find a legitimate reason to vote against her or for someone else, fine. But this nonsense makes a mockery of what the electoral system is supposed to be about.

As an African American (of mixed ancestry), I can tell you that nothing, NOTHING happening in this race is upsetting me as much as the polls that show that African Americans believe far less that America is ready for a Black president than whites do.

There is a seeming culture in my people where we drag each other down, say that they are "not black enough" because of an education. That they "talk white" when they are articulate and well spoken.

It all speaks of a lack of hope for a better future. The thought that the African Americans of South Carolina might do their best to stand in the way of our first Black President twists in my stomach, because I feel that it's more of the same old "dragging each other down instead of holding each other up" culture rather than a decision being made on the relatively minor differences in the candidate's stances on issues.

Looking to the past with Hillary is like looking to the past with our own history as a people. While we can accept the bad and cherish the good of that past, we NEED to move forward to the future as a people, and as Americans.