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Many black people once regarded Bill Clinton as a hero. But the former President threw away his 'Black Pass' popping off at the mouth in South Carolina comparing Barack Obama's win to Jesse Jackson's.
And Hillary Clinton's first foray into color tinged political knuckleball came when she appeared to diminish Dr. King's impact on Civil Rights legislation. By her campaign's end, Clinton was extolling the electoral potency of "hardworking white" Americans.
Now for the record, I do not believe the Clinton's are racists at all. It's more cynical than that. They were ruthless in courting the white vote and willing to say things and allow things to be said that caused real hurt to many of their formerly "ride or die" African American supporters. The Clinton's were too quick to forget that during the darkest daze of his presidency, Bill Clinton called out for help and black preachers answered; black preachers including Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
But on Saturday, Hillary Clinton conceded and did the right thing. She delivered a rousing speech declaring her intention to "work her heart out" for Barack Obama and unequivocally encouraged her supporters to do the same. So at least that means no more Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D)-OH hyper-enthusiastically pushing Hillary's superiority to Barack Obama to any reporter who'll listen.
So my question is, will blacks and the Clinton's just kiss and make-up? Or is this divorce court?
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By: Keep It Real Please on 6/15/2008 2:25PM
You see, you have to take a serious look at what is going on RIGHT NOW! Remember the pope's visit to the white house? See all the natural disasters going on? See the state of rhe election and the incitement of racism? See the split Hillary created? Its time we stand TOGETHER as AMERICANS and all the other foolishness put to the side. Why would you allow yourselves to be used in this manner? Controlled like mindless drones just so a agenda can be fullfilled. Why would you want your children to be in such a awful state? If you were SMART you would STOP all this foolish talk and stand up against the powers that be by letting them know NO MORE! NO MORE LIES. NO MORE WARS. NO MORE RACISM! NO MORE DEATH! NO MORE TRAMPLING ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO FULLFILL YOUR POWER AGENDA! GET WITH IT PEOPLE OR WE ALL WE BE VERY VERY SORRY! THE PATRIOT ACT HAS STRIPPED AWAY YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS. CAN YOU NOT SEE THIS? ARE YOU THAT IGNORANT? TIME TO WAKE UP! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND THIS COUNTRY WAKE UP!!!!
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By: Keep It Real Please on 6/15/2008 2:36PM
Another important thing to consider: Just recently terrorists escaped from prison in Afghanistan. DO YOU NOT SEE WHATS GOING ON?! ALL THIS SHOULD SCARE THE LIFE OUT OF YOU! IT SURE SCARES ME BECAUSE MY EYES ARE WIDE OPEN AND I AM LOSING FAITH IN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
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By: J.Dunbar on 6/15/2008 3:19PM
DID YOU SEE THE AD THAT WAS RAN IN NORTH CAROLINA WITH THE OLD BLACK LADY AND HILLARY. I WILL SAY NO MORE.
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By: Sasha on 6/17/2008 12:57PM
This is BEYOND ugly and I can't IMAGINE that it will go unchecked. Karma is DIVINE and can be a B*TCH in that you can COUNT ON IT to come around and give you what you've got coming, good or bad. Cause and Effect. Action and REaction. All the haters can PRETEND that Bill and Hill have "done us wrong"...and you can pretend it until your eyes roll back in your heads and your heads spin 'round. The FACT REMAINS, and will ALWAYS BE FACT that ya'll no good and damn well that their words were twisted around and hyped up by the media, and you all LATCHED ON TO IT just so you could feel better about YOUR CHOICE to turn on the Clintons and give 90% support to a candidate that you knew and know precious little about ---- just because he's black. That's fine. Bad blood in American History dictates that you should/would do just that and vote whole 90-100% for a black candidate. There is no surprise there. Hillary even said VERY EARLY ON that she understood the significance and that she wasn't mad at you. But, your conscience had you STILL feeling bad about it, so you made yourself feel good about it by jumping on the okey-doke bandwagon and playing "mad angry" because the media told you that that's how you should be feeling. Complete media BS, and you knew it then, and know it now but it's become such a comfortable habit during these past months, that you can't shake off your two-faced hypocrisy and you're keeping it going. Prior to this election process, black people wouldn't believe the media and trust them to tell us what friggin' day of the week it is, let alone how to FEEL. So you KNOW you're full of sh*t pretending to believe that Hill and Bill are racists. Hillary concession was completely gracious and above and beyond what she SHOULD have been saying to Obama and you reneging turncoats. You don't deserve the support that she's promised to give. She's a MUCH BIGGER person than any of you PRETENSE HATERS. I WHOLEHEARTEDLY BELIEVE that she will be blessed, in the end, for taking all of your BS in stride. And I WHOLEHEARTEDLY BELIEVE that all of the wickedness involved in this entire election process will come back and smack ALL the wicked in the face. She gave the most gracious exit speech in the history of politics, licking your trifling azzes, and yet you STILL talk sh*t about her. UNBELIEVABLE! HELL NAW she shouldn't attempt to kiss and make up because SHE has done nothing wrong.
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By: Charles Lewis on 6/23/2008 11:15PM
The agenda of the African-American community must deal with the erosion of middle class employment opportunities, particularly for the future generation of young African-American college students. That said, Senator Barack Obama seems to have tapped into the needs and concerns of a vanishing Middle Class, particularly The African-American Middle Class.
Because of the struggles of Martin Luther King, Jr there is now an Obama !
After all, wouldn't it be fair to reason that Senator Barack Obama is the living personification of Dr. Martin Luther King's Dream ! Since this is not the appropriate time for emotionalism to interfere with 40-plus years of political struggle, then it's TIME for both Clintons to fall in line and do whatever is necessary politically...socially...financially to support Senator Barack Obama. Perhaps this is a textbook case of we can forgive the negative comments that were said by the Clintons, but NEVER forget who said it and the tone, and the context of what was said or cunningly alluded to by Mrs. Hillary Clinton and/or her "husband", Bill Clinton.
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By: RchHlm on 6/27/2008 7:50PM
I don't get when it read on Yahoo Obama gives Clinton money over $4,000. O.K. According to the wall street Journal the clinton's made over $100,000,000 since 2001. Obama last year didn't even make a million. The information accesible to the public is at a criminal mind state. Meaning the people that are giving the information via yahoo via wall street journal. There getting paid to give false information_that's criminial_ one of them is, and on top of that it sends the wrong message to the public well if Obama gave the clinton's money obvisouly he's way richer. I don't get it
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By: mm on 7/05/2008 11:49AM
bill and hillary are beautiful prople. the clintons didnot do anything wrong. obama make thing bad. he wanted to bring down the clintons because he is so corrupt. obama is not what he looks to be. and black people needs to look at obama background. obama is not black. he is white. becauae what ever your mother is that is what you are. obama does not care anybody especially black people. he has so much baggages about him. he is fooling black people and the rest of the world. if obama wins we all going to die like ww1,ww2,911 and other bad things. the terroists are just waiting to kill us. obama started this race card because he enter the dnc party and he knows he corrupt it. which is already corrupt. the dnc does not care a blacks. they are all asshole. and if it wasn't for gop the civil right act would not got passed. because dnc and the kennedy didnot wanted to pass it. read your history. and when hillary about dr. king obama make it sound ulgy. obama never did anything for black people. so wake black people obama is a bad choice. and clintons is the only president that have black people in his cabin and staff, so back off the clintons. so black people you should put a real black who cares about real issues like this one look at these other people who are taking your job, health benefits, etc. and when these people come from other countries they get here and call you a nigger. and stop letting these spanish people take from you. did you know in there churches they call black people nigger,monkey,donot trust them. look at when go on interviews they make sure they get hirer first. and they get on the loans,stores,get the best benefits. they steal from you and your ideas,music.because bush made easy for them. and they never did anything for this country but steal. they use blacks to over. so what you think about that.
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By: rhonda on 7/10/2008 3:49PM
Let's keep our comments short. I never read the long messages. The little box where you write your message is a small rectangle for a reason.
If we have to have Hillary as our vice-president,so be it. I'm looking at the BIG picture. An African American President.
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By: Joe Lynch on 7/07/2008 8:44AM
In reading the blogs; I agree the Clintons made some ill advised comments. But let's not kid ourselves. Even had the Clintons continued to extol all the virtues and values of the Black community; there was no way they or any other candidate where going to win any support.
The Black Community (most not all)had already decided the Obama was going to get their vote. Period. There is nothing the Clintons could have said or done that would change that.
In sofaras some people now holding the grudge and saying they refuse to support Clinton on the ticket; be advised the deomgraphics work against you. Black community represents maybe 12% of the United States. How many Clinton supporters are there?
All you need to do is alienate all the Clinton supporters and see what happens to Obama in the general election. I don't care if you vote 100% instead of 90% like you usually do; Obama still won't win without the Clinton supporters.
So think about that before you start saying you don't need Hilary.
Joe Lynch
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By: Gene on 7/07/2008 10:34AM
#15 we may be koolaid drinkers but, if your plans are to go from supporting Hillary Clinton to backing John McCain, you've been drinking something stronger than koolaid--Jack Daniels perhaps? Obama and Clinton's platforms were close to identical. If you are such a petty, sore loser that you would change political affiliations just to spite Obama, you are, to use a Reverend Wright term, "stuck on stupid." If John McCain does happen to win the general election, anyone who supported him should immediately break every mirror in their house. You should do this because, otherwise, every time a serviceman or woman dies in Iraq, every time a home is foreclosed on, and every time the economy takes a turn for the worst, that person looking back at you in the mirror can take some of the credit for the country's misery.
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