You're missing a huge thing here. It was Hillary who said on the record that she was the candidate of the hardworking, blue collar, Midwestern folks, who everyone--everyone--knew to be "white" voters. It was Bill who reached back and said "Well you know, Jesse Jackson won South Carolina too", and opened that door of not-so-subtle racism. And I have to say, I don't see anyone teaching Blacks that all our problems are due to racism, that we don't have to have responsibility for ourselves. I'm successful by most standards, I've worked hard to get where I am, my parents taught me to fight and scrap and improve myself. But they also taught me that racism is real, and to fight it when I see it. And it *does* still exist in this country. Just as Blacks can't spend all time blaming racism, we'd be incautious to pretend it doesn't exist.
As for Obama going after whites and telling them to get their act together, i can't really speak to that yet. I know he's angered many by his lecturing Black men to get it together, by not addressing racism overtly (something which has apparently alienated Tavis Smiley). I'm not yet sure where I stand on this. I know that he can't obtain the White House speaking the way you and I do. It sucks, but if this stupid nation is still questioning Michelle because she made the completely understandable statement that she was really proud of America, if they deem not wearing a flag pin a sign of treason, then I think they'd never put a Black man in office who tells it fully like it is. It makes me somewhat ill to even say this, but he does have to walk a fine line here. Has he gone too far? I don't know, not sure, but I'm willing to give him a chance. I'd rather have a careful Black man like Obama who at least *acknowledges* that America is racist, than a sellout like Clarence Thomas who pr etends it isn't, or a clueless codger like McCain who has about as much in common with me and my life as I do with a ant. -------------- Original message -------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 8/27/2008 7:39:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's my thoughts exactly. What I saw Clintion was in a no-win situation. It has now dawn on her that thanks to her primary actions she either has to help Obama win the election-even if it means she'll never have a decent shot of running for president. Or killing her political career, and her chance of holding her senate seat by either doing nothing, or harming Obama's chance of winning it. So she had to hit one out of the park. But now she has to make sure that Obama wins the nod or many will blame his loss on her and endure the backlash. Which will probally end her senate career. This is what I am tired of . I am tired of the Everything is racist. Poor Obama. I saw him in the debates with Hillary. He was horrible. However black peole were crying racism. I saw him at Saddleback. McCain was great. You can't blame that on racism. Minoriites have been force feed that nothing is there fault. It is all the racist system. Now you have all of these so called white liberals who feel proud they are not racist like their parents. We can all be stupid toghet. Give me a break. Take teen pregnacy. It used to be a "black problem:. Now it is a white problem and is acceptable. You have all of these dolllars going in to stop it in the black community. However it is ballooning in the white community. When will Obama tell whites to get their act together. He won't . He will say that peopel must work together to stop problems. It will be accpetable becuse he is a Bill Cosby type of person. John McCain says the same thing and he is labeled a racist. This has NOT helped. People need to sop looking at race and look at the problem. It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here.
