Letters to the Editor
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@KateTex
The clips that your "video" are taken from are from Obama's response to the idea of a Clinton/Obama "dream ticket." If you actually watch the original video and not a pro-Hillary series of clips that show Obama dancing and comparing him to Denzel Washington in a Spike Lee movie, you'll see that he makes no mention of race. In fact he legitimately dismisses the idea of a Clinton/Obama ticket, based on facts and actual election results.
He is being sarcastic, just like Hillary was being sarcastic when she did that whole thing about "the heavens will open, and choirs of angels, etc . . ."
You can see the real video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Sbz8XzsWs
I have not lived in NOLA so I guess I don't know as much as you do about speaking in code, or about how white people do it . But I do know that there is no such thing as a black code and I know that Obama wasn't using one.
I don't know anyone who thinks the Clintons are racists. The Clintons still enjoy enormous support in the black community. Hillary's campaign manager and long time friend is black. Many of Hillary's most prominent supporters are black. I have a lot of respect for her and for them. I do think that Hillary has used some pretty divisive language in her campaign so far. I think Bill's comments in SC are one example, the fact that Harold Ickes echoed his comments a month later is another example. And the fact that Geraldine Ferraro has been going on radio and TV shows for the last 3 weeks saying that Obama's lucky that he's a black man, or we wouldn't be talking about him, is pretty startling as well.
I, for one, completely agree with you that it makes no sense for Hillary to alienate black voters. Which is why it's astonishing and disappointing that the evidence would indicate that she's done just that.