John Kerry is a superdelegate. As is Clyburn. These endorsements do matter as a superdelegate holds a lot of weight over the ordinary delegate (let alone the lowly citizen).

I challenge you to provide the quote that supports your claim that Senator Clinton implied that Martin Luther King was a communist. If you are going to keep up with this she said this and she said that, you need to support your claims with the evidence of an exact NOT A PARAPHRASED quotation.

"something that President Kennedy was only "hopeful" to do..." This part of the statement by Clinton is to emphasize that Barack Obama's profound message of "hope" is only as good as wishing for something to happen. Her purpose was to imply weakness without accomplishment. But the true politics of hope replaces the politics of fear. It’s the opposite of wishy-washy. It exemplifies a strong attitude of far reaching possibility.

As I listened to her, I was also horrified and offended that her statements were extremely insensitive ignoring the sacrifices of civil rights activists and painful fact that both JFK and MLK fought for civil rights, but were murdered and made the ultimate sacrifice, how could they have finished the job? It wasn’t because they only hoped for change, they were taken out!

In addition, I cannot get past the ruthless allegations I’ve heard in her speeches in misrepresenting Senator Obama’s record consistently as part of her campaign or the smears carried out by Clinton surrogates against him. It is Hillary Clinton that needs a reality check! The change that America wants so badly is not about a black president or a woman president, America wants an end to the Bush/Clinton kind of ruthless government, America wants leadership we can be proud of.

the notion that white leaders like LBJ and others would have come around is pure redneck disinformation and white liberal/conservative propaganda.

It is apparent in reading the excuses and twisted revisonist posts in here from white posters that they simply cannot come to grips with the genius of MLK or thier depraved racist pathologies.

The denial in here on a so-called liberal web site is astounding. I had no ideal that whites still had so many reservations about MLK.

It is truly tragic to observe such ignorance and arrogance form white posters given they more than Blacks in particular white woman have reaped big rewards form our country's civil rights movement created by Black folks.

White cultural pathologies are so lethal it allows even the so-called progressive whites to still harbor vast layers of white privledge and supremacy.

Hillary's truly ignorant dismissive rant about MLK was not the surprising if one reads the white posters rants in here today..

WOW!!

about how she was quoted out of context by white reporters.

You need to understand something about me. I am not influenced nor in fear of white woman even ones who are more masculine than me...

Now run along and go make up some more excuses and phony posts about how important white woman are over black men.

Go post some of John Edwards lack of quotes about how those Duke lacrosse team members trashed a black woman and was given a free pass by a white state DA in North Carolina and he did nothing but avoid the press.

Please post some quotes about John Edwards how he lived in a state where Jesse Helms was his role model,a state where apparently black woman who make a living off of dancing for spoiled white college students gets trashed and becomes a ho and why the Duke boys become pity heroes..

Run along now you have lots on your plate..

LBJ didn't pass the Civil Rights Act, congress did, but a vote of 339 to 126 (73 to 28), which would have been enough votes to over ride a veto, had LBJ not also been in favor of the Civil Rights Act. No one man got the Civil Rights Act passed, but only one man had the Dream.

As I said, Rosenkavalier, I live my life by the Dream, I have the Dream framed on my bedroom wall, I know exactly what the Dream is. And yes Barack Obama has the Dream, and the political will to implement it. Does Clinton? Or is she only going to mock it, like she did when thought she was going to lose to a black man?

To Thrasher

I have read your letters and have been a little bit irked by your "us against them" tone that you seem to have in regards to interracial harmony. I am a White man married to an Asian woman with mixed racial children, so I don't see race making a difference at all (in fact I hope my children marry people of mixed Black and Hispanic heritage); that was the Dream.

No equal rights legislation of any kind would have gotten passed without White support. It is far better that we work together than against each other each (that is also the Dream).

I agree with much of what you said, except for this: "The Civil Rights struggle has no reference to him although it is now being imposed on the narrative." What are you talking about? As Obama himself has said he grew up facing many of the challenges that Black Americans face simply because people in this race-obsessed society looked at him and saw a Black man, and treated him accordingly. They didn't stop to delve into his lineage. And these experiences helped shape his notions of himself. Moreover, he worked in the black community in Chicago as a community organizers, attended a black church, was embraced by Black Americans, married a Black American woman and is raising two Black American daughters--the descendants of Black slaves; yet, you claim the "[t]he Civil Rights struggle has no reference to him?" How much time have you spent in America? Also, it's important to note that the Civil Rights movement was led by the descendants of black slaves, but there were black people in America at the time who did not necessarily have the exact cultural background as MLK but who were/are deeply invested in that struggle (have you ever heard of Marcus Garvey? I'm also thinking about my father-in-law and his family who are Jamaican immigrants. I'm also thinking of black Americans who had been living in freedom--however qualified--for many generations before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed ). You were right when you implied that many Americans are still really stupid when it comes to race, and this is precisely why the Civil Rights struggle does have "reference" to Barack Obama. How about picking up the man's first book and taking seriously his own account of his life story before imposing your own opinions on his narrative?