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What other people are saying
2008-06-08 14:41:00
What Hillary saidHillary Clinton gave a phenomenal concession/endorsement speech on Saturday. Sen. Clinton's presidential run was important and historic. She deserves recognition for that.You know, a lot of stuff went down during this campaign that made my blood boil. But I'm going to let it rest now. For those of us who believe in a progressive agenda, we have a common enemy to battle. But, for the record, as much as I hated the way Clinton ran for president, I still believe she is one smart, tough cookie.Reading this post-mortem of the Clinton campaign in The New York Times made me feel uncommonly sympathic to the Senator. It seems to confirm my believe that what could have been a winning campaign was doomed by Mark Penn a crew of 1990s-era operatives who refused to adapt to the politics of the new millenium.What Thembi saidThe blog What Would Thembi Do? is where I get my vintage black pop culture fix. I tell you, I don't know where the sister comes up with stuff like the histo...
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Can a radical become President of the United States?
2008-06-06 18:47:00
Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report has written a post entitled "Obama Resigns from Black Nation," taking the Democratic presidential nominee to task for resigning from Trinity United Church of Christ. Ford sees the decision as part of a pattern and proof that: "Barack Obama is true-blue to the slave holding forefathers and heroic blond mothers of the storybook U.S. of A. His intense (white) nationalist fealty to the Indian-killer and slave-whipper compels him to reject out of hand the African American version of U.S. and world history - to compulsively dismiss both the Black counter-narrative and narrators, like Rev. Wright." Ford goes on to say:By all rights, Obama ought to just keep on steppin' out of Black America entirely, since his real problem lies with the two-edged sword of Black nationalism. The great irony of the Obama phenomenon is, his fundamental strength in the Democratic primaries - near-universal Black support - is based on an ideology that is a nightmare to white vot...
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The best paragraph I've read on the Web today...
2008-06-05 00:51:00
Ottermatic (who has a super-cool blog graphic and motto), was pondering the sexism thrown at Michelle Obama and, in the process, co-signed with another blogger who is ready to ride with the First Lady-to-be: What I really want to say right now, though, is that I am with Cheryl Lynn when it comes to Michelle Obama: ??Chelle could call me at two o?clock in the morning and ask me to roll on a bitch and I would calmly pull out my sneakers and Vaseline.?* I am a FAN of Michelle Obama. I am hoping that she becomes friends with Hillary Clinton, learns a few tricks, hits the senate (Come be my senator! I will campaign for you!) and runs for president in 2020. I just love that! I have never had to grease up for a scuffle. But if the bullies come for Michelle on the playground at 3 o'clock, I am so there--shiny-faced and ready to throw down!
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What other people are saying?
2008-06-03 19:11:00
Happy birthday, Miss Irene! Mac Daddy at Daddy Be Strong celebrates the life of an oft-forgotten heroine of civil rights:Ms. Morgan Kirkaldy, an African American woman, refused to give her seat to a white couple on a Greyhound bus in 1944, 11 years before Rosa Parks. When the arresting officer put his hand on her, she kicked him in the groin and said shewould have bitten him, but he looked "too dirty."She took her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. The lawyer who argued her case before that august body? A young Thurgood Marshall, a lawyer who would later be appointed to that court. The court banned segregated busing on interstate travel; and set a precedent for the dispensation of discriminatory cases intravel. Morgan Kikaldy's success also motivated what was called "The Freedom Rides," where young people rode in the front of buses to test the new law. One of the leaders of this movement was Bayard Rustin, who would later be an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
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Meet young Hillary Clinton
2008-06-02 00:08:00
(Hat tip to Feministe)A lot of folks are calling this video sexist. I think it is kinda funny. In my view, it lampoons Clinton 's win-at-all-costs attitude and her perpetual moving of the bar for success. I don't find any of the jabs here particularly gender-related. I find it a little disturbing that ANY criticism of Clinton and her supporters; however accurate, is getting labeled as sexism. There HAS been tremendous sexism in this campaign, but confusing it with genuine criticism helps no one.What do you think?
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He had to do it
2008-06-01 15:34:00
Overshadowed by the results of the Democrat's Rules and Bylaws committee was a story broken by CNN contributor Roland Martin: Barack Obama has resigned from being a member of Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC). (Read more...) As a former member of TUCC and one who has defended the church and former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright (here, here and here)...as someone who has heard many an enjoyable sermon by Father Michael Pfleger, has admired his work and agrees that Hillary Clinton feels entitled to the Democratic nomination, mostly because she is a Clinton, but also because of race...I believe Barack Obama made the right decision in leaving his church.Three things I think I know about how this country views religion:- America is not comfortable with radical leftist preachers. Few question the relationships rightwing conservatives like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell have with Republican politicians. John McCain sought the support of Rev. John Hagee. It doesn't matter than Robertso...

Our national sin: Roman not Paris
2008-05-30 03:07:00
Remember back before the hype and noise of the 2008 presidential campaign. The media, not yet consumed with "bittergate" or "Bosniagate," was gnashing its teeth about our society's seeming reckless and unreasoned adoration for celebrity, above all else. The unholy poster girl of our addled minds was supposed to be Paris Hilton. What shallow and dull-witted society would worship a pantyless, dull-eyed heiress with no discernible talent? With Paris, Britney and Lindsay on the loose, there was much tsk, tsking. But it occurs to me, after reading "Hollywood's Most Beloved Fugitive," a film review in this week's Newsweek, that the sin of our celebrity obsession has little to do with celebrity twinkies--male or female. The sin of our celebrity obsession is that we moralizing Americans somehow find a way to absolve people with fame and fortune of truly monstrous behavior. And that is never more true than in the case of crimes against women and girls.In recent years, O.J. Simpson, Robert...
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Michelle Obama: Ain't she a woman?
2008-05-28 23:00:00
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American lawyer and the wife of Illinois senator Barack Obama, who is a candidate for the 2008 Democratic Party nomination for U.S. President. She was born and grew up on the South Side of Chicago and then educated at Princeton University and Harvard Law School. After completing her formal education, she returned to Chicago and went to work for the law firm Sidley Austin, on the staff of the Mayor of Chicago Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Hospitals. She is the sister of Craig Robinson, men's basketball coach at Oregon State University. Read more...I admire Michelle Obama . By all reliable accounts, she is smart, accomplished and an equal partner in her marriage to a high-profile, powerful man. Obama is not overshadowed by her husband. He complements her, and she him. In many ways, she reminds me of another First-Spouse-to-be that I once admired: Hillary Clinton . And just...
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Elegy for the road trip
2008-05-27 12:25:00
When I was a wee Tami, I didn?t play with dolls much. Oh, I had the requisite Barbies and baby dolls, but they didn?t really capture my imagination. Instead, my best friend Carol and I spent a lot of time playing with our vast collection of Fisher-Price Little People. Remember those things? Between us, Carol and I had two A-frame houses, two traditional houses, two farms, a Holiday Inn and a McDonald?s?enough for an entire Little People town. We would stretch our little homes and buildings along the long, shaded deck behind my house and create stories for our little families: we would take our little parents to work; take the little kids to school; engineer little family squabbles; and?this was the most fun?take the whole little gang on road trips. The woods behind my house became Yosemite National Park. The drop from the deck to the lawn below became the Grand Canyon.My Fisher-Price travel fantasies eventually matured into a new way to play road trip. My friends and I would positio...
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Let's talk about sex
2008-05-26 19:37:00
Over on Racialicious, guest contributor AJ Plaid aka The Cruel Secretary wonders where are all the sex-positive advice givers of color--folks like Dan Savage or Susie Bright, but black or Latino or Asian. Aren't people of color sexual beings too?And while we're on the topic, where are the mature sex-positive discussions about sex in the black blogosphere? Oh, we rail against sex as misogyny as portrayed on BET, and we tsk, tsk at irresponsible sex in the black community, but where is the celebration of sex as a wonderful, enjoyable thing?You must read this (And not just because it includes a quote from me. Hee.). Here's an excerpt:I posed my question about sex-positive sex advice to my staunchly Baptist, up-from-segregated-Mississippi, baby-boomer mom. I told her about writing this post, and we hashed out four major reasons why, at least, some African Americans in particular might shy away from the position?and I do mean ?hash? because we went ?round and ?round about stereotypes ...
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What other folks are saying
2008-05-25 13:56:00
This week, Essential Presence posted disheartening news about a young woman who was shot when she and her friends refused the advances of a car full of men.There was a time when if you rebuffed a stranger's advances, if you didn't give him your phone number he would just call you a bitch and tell you that you aren't shit. And as his friends laughed at his witty response they would all walk or drive off.Now, young Black women have to choose between some bug-a-boo calling their cell phone or risk getting shot. 18-year-old Mildred Beaubrun and her friends were getting gas and something to drink at a gas station after a night out when they came across a vehicle of animals who wanted a phone number."Hey, baby, what's your phone number?" they called out as the cars traveled west through Orlando.Then the banter grew more aggressive. The men threw a T-shirt, then an AA battery, at the Nissan. One of the women threw a broken cell-phone charger back. At one point, the HHR swerved into the...

My Black History: Yet More Little Gifts
2008-05-23 13:35:00
My great-grandparents, Mattie and Jake, and their children. My grandfather is third from the right.I have written before (here and here and here) about how genealogy can be a hard, boring slog, after the first few months of discovery. What keeps me going are the little gifts I receive--surprise calls from long lost cousins, a hidden name on a census that reveals an answer to a family mystery, a fading photo of an ancestor found on a Web site, etc.Last weekend, I got a huge gift. My cousin Barbara, who has moved to the family's ancestral home, and her family, came to visit, and brought with her a treasure trove of information about my mother's paternal grandparents. Until last Saturday, I had never seen my Great-grandmother Mattie and Great-Grandpapa Jake. They were just names, bits of old stories my mother used to tell. Now they are real. I know now how much my beloved Gramps looked like his father. And I know how my great-uncles and aunts looked at my age. It was a wonderful expe...
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Geraldine Ferraro is no friend to women
2008-05-21 21:49:00
(Caution: Hysterical rant ahead.)It's the black journalists!? The black journalists!?I don't care about Geraldine Ferraro's achievements. I don't care about her history-making run for the White House. She is VILE! It is clear to me that she is intentionally fomenting division and hatred against black Americans. This isn't about women's equality. Geraldine Ferraro doesn't give two shits about women like me. She will never call out the media for demonizing Michelle Obama, just as they demonized Hillary Clinton when Bill ran for the White House, because she doesn't care. This is about protecting the entitlement and privilege of women who look like her...women like Hillary Clinton, who I find hard to believe is unaware of her "former" surrogate's racist media tour.The feminist movement is revealing its racism in the ugliest ways this election cycle. And I have screamed about it until I can't breathe. I don't know what else to say. I am just so sad...and angry. And I am wonder...
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Race and I'm still running
2008-05-21 03:24:00
Michelle Myers, a guest contributor at Anti-Racist Parent, penned an excellent essay about how wearying worrying about race all the time can be.A few weeks ago while watching ?Dancing with the Stars,? my husband tried to get me riled up over a routine that Kristi Yamaguchi and her dance partner were performing which had him dressed in a military uniform and she, his Asian lover, swooning on his shoulder.I had cringed inwardly when I saw the set-up, but I wanted to just enjoy the moment?just relish something for pure entertainment without the brooding presence of racial stereotypes and hegemonic ideologies.So when my husband whispered suggestively to me about the ?soldier savior? and ?What was she thinking?? I shushed him and said that I didn?t want to be Yellow Rage all the time. ?She just happens to be Asian, not playing ?Asian,?? I retorted. But when Bruno, one of the judges, referred to Kristi?s character portrayal in the routine as being a ?Madame Butterfly??which he meant as a ...
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Feeling warm and fuzzy
2008-05-21 02:21:00
You like me! You really like me!Well, somebody does, anyway....Jennifer at Mixed Race America has awarded me the E for Excellent Blogging award. And I swear I didn't even know this when I gave MRA some love in my post earlier today. Like I told Jenn, it is always great to hear that someone admires your blog, but it is even cooler to know that someone whose blog you admire admires your blog.So, as part of this meme, I am to pass the award to four bloggers that I admire. I like Jennifer's approach of focusing on blogs that don't get a lot of national attention. Racialicious and What About Our Daughters are daily must-reads for me, but EVERYBODY knows how awesome they are. For my choices, I decided to go back to some of the first blogs that I really loved and whose owners (like Carmen and Gina) were supportive of my early efforts. So, without further ado:Black Women Vote: The work Shecodes has done to solidify and articulate a platform for female, black voters is phenomenal.Boring B...
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Blogs you should be reading (and opportunity for shameless self-promotion)
2008-05-20 17:51:00
Darn you people and your talents! My morning perusal of blogs used to be so easy. Now it seems every other day I find a new great blog that I HAVE to add to my reading list. Here are just a few that have caught my attention recently:Black Women, Blow the Trumpet!Described as "a place where black women identify, organize and strategize solutions for societal issues that impact black women," BWBT has a wonderful post up now about alliances between white and black feminists. an excerpt:As I read the conversations on the blogs of many black feminists, I hear a recurring complaint that white feminists do not fully understand the struggle of black women. I need to make this very clear to all of my sistas so we can stop whining about it once and for all: NO ONE understands the struggle of black women and NO ONE ever will. Can we agree that today shall be the last and final reality check regarding the fanciful notion that non-black women will ever fully understand our struggles?Entering the...
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When will Barack Obama answer for the bad behavior of his brethren?
2008-05-19 13:17:00
That said, it would be nice to see some glimmer of feminism coming out of our presumptive black male candidate. I'd like to know what he thinks of OJ Simpson, for example. Would he, law professor, stand up in front of a black crowd and admit that he thinks OJ got away with murdering a white woman - unlike the countless black males who actually didn't murder the white woman, but were hanged anyway? In all cases, remember, the woman was actually dead.More importantly, will Obama repudiate the misogynistic undertone in rap music, the tidal wave of bitch and ho vulgarity that does nothing to move young black (andwhite) women an inch closer to parity with men? Read more...Wow! Just...wow, Nina Burleigh. In her Saturday post on Huffington Post, the writer wonders "Is Obama Man Enough to be a Feminist Too?" I wonder if Burleigh realizes how ridiculously race biased it is to ask a candidate to weigh in on O.J. Simpson and decry hip hop simply because he is a black man.Will Hillary Clinton...
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New Music: Adele (and missing Mes Deaux Cents)
2008-05-18 15:01:00
I'm really missing my blog sister, Mes Deaux Cents , this morning. See yesterday I "discovered" a great new singer. (Readers in the UK are going, "Yeah, um, she's not new here.") Adele is a 20-year-old soul and jazz singer that has been dubbed "the new Amy Winehouse." After enjoying a couple of her songs, I downloaded her album yesterday and have been playing it obsessively ever since. It's wonderful: soulful, melodic, passionate. I'm hooked!Anyway, MDC shares my eclectic taste in music, my knack for finding great stuff not getting major airplay in the U.S., and my sad addiction to iTunes. Her music posts always made me think she was secretly raiding the song files on my computer. So, while MDC is on hiatus, I bet somewhere she is listening to Adele. If not, MDC, you should be!Anyhoo, here is Adele performing two of my favorite cuts from her new album "19":Melt My Heart to StoneBest for Last
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Random Saturday stuff
2008-05-17 15:23:00
Barely Political had a bit of fun with video of Bill O'Reilly's vintage "Inside Edition" meltdown. My husband and I watched this three or four times on Olbermann last night and laughed uproariously every time.Okay, generally I think Chris Matthews is a sexist, prejudiced jerk, but this week I loved him a little. Watch Tweety (TM Daily Kos) take down a loud-mouthed conservative parrot.I'm sure my Matthews hate will return next week.File this under: The truly sad state of things. From Mother Jones:Lately, I've seen some changes at the two Starbucks that live less than a block away from the Mother Jones office. Last month, they both started pushing a new blend called "Pike Place Roast" as their regular drip coffee, as part of a campaign to compete with brisk coffee sales at Dunkin' Donuts and McDonald's. As part of the campaign, Starbucks re-introduced its 1971 brown-and-white logo featuring a two-tailed mermaid. Okay, technically it's a siren, but regardless, the image of a fem...
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Sexism and privilege: parsing gender politics in the Clinton campaign
2008-05-16 13:00:00
I was all set to write a post about how some feminist support of Hillary Clinton seems contrary to principles of female equality. I get the sense, in some Clintonistas' breathless defense of the candidate, that she is a delicate flower than needs protecting from male colleagues, the media and other women who simply don't understand her, and that her actions don't deserve the scrutiny that those of male candidates receive.That is not equality.Hillary Clinton's supporters too often cast her as a victim, all the better to champion the "she's a fighter" narrative. After all, a fighter who has nothing to fight against is just surly and combative.Remember when, early in the race, in a "bloody" debate, Clinton stood as the front runner, while the other Democratic candidates tried to knock her off her game? That is what opponents who are behind try to do in politics--take out the front runner. And all of Clinton's opponents "attacked" her respectfully with valid points about policy. (...
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Keith Olbermann: Speaking truth to power
2008-05-15 15:57:00
This special comment had my husband and I on our feet shouting. It's about time somebody said something.Keith, you make a liberal girl swoon.
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I colonize
2008-05-14 21:42:00
Taigi Smith, in the brilliant essay "What Happens When Your Hood is the Last Stop on the White Flight Express" in the book "Colonize This: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism," describes gentrification like this:Gentrification: The displacement of poor women and people of color. The raising of rents and the eradification of single, poor and working-class women from neighborhoods once considered unsavory by people who didn't live there. The demolition of housing projects. A money-driven process in which landowners and developers push people (in this case, many of them single mothers) out of their homes without thinking about where they will go. Gentrification is a pre-meditated process in which an imaginary bleach is poured on a community and the only remaining color left in that community is white...only the strongest coloreds survived.and this...For poor single mothers, gentrification is a tactic "the system" uses to keep them down; it falls into the same category as "workfa...

The brown and the dead
2008-05-13 13:05:00
Does this woman's body deserve respect?Saturday night I was watching as CNN covered the tragedy in Myanmar (Burma). I was well aware of the devastation caused by Nagris, the cyclone that ripped the country apart. What shocked me was the graphic nature of CNN's report. There were bodies and bodies and more bodies--Burmese men, women, even children, dead, bloated, discolored and rotting in the Southeast Asian sun; arms and legs akimbo as if their owners had been tossed like rag dolls. I know this is what death looks like, especially when it takes place in a poor country where the people have been colonized, militarized and rocked by ethnic strife and drug trafficking. But I watched the television and couldn't help thinking that this video desecration of the already desecrated was another example of how American culture sees brown people as somehow less human.According to the Huffington Post, a CNN spokesperson, defending the news outlet's work in Burma, said "the enormity of the s...
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I'm still here
2008-05-12 13:35:00
I realize my posting this past week has been...spotty at best. I am working to finish a writing assignment that is due this afternoon. I'll be back tomorrow in fine fighting form. As usual, I have a lot to say about politics, and I received one of those "little gifts" to my family research project that I have written about before. More later.

You Don't Know Me: Part II
2008-05-09 00:29:00
Despite the portrayal of my home state as a white wasteland, Indiana has a long, compelling history of competing ideas and interests. Yes, it was a hotbed for the Ku Klux Klan, but it also had several integral stops on the Underground Railroad. The state housed some of the first utopian societies in the United States, and boasts an internationally known center for modern Quaker society. Indiana was home to Eugene Debs, Socialist Part y presidential candidate in the early 1900s and one of the founders of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World. Today the work force is heavily based in manufacturing, more so than in agriculture, and as such is heavily unionized. Where Indiana was once largely a white state infamous for its ?sundown towns,? the African American and Latino populations are growing exponentially, and within the last decade the university in my backyard hosted among the largest percentages of foreign students in the United States. But somehow, ...

The American Dream lives!
2008-05-07 18:03:00
Barack Obama delivered the following remarks (as prepared) in Raleigh, North Carolina, last night...You know, some were saying that North Carolina would be a game-changer in this election. But today, what North Carolina decided is that the only game that needs changing is the one in Washington, DC.I want to start by congratulating Senator Clinton on her victory in the state of Indiana. And I want to thank the people of North Carolina for giving us a victory in a big state, a swing state, and a state where we will compete to win if I am the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.When this campaign began, Washington didn?t give us much of a chance. But because you came out in the bitter cold, and knocked on doors, and enlisted your friends and neighbors in this cause; because you stood up to the cynics, and the doubters, and the nay-sayers when we were up and when we were down; because you still believe that this is our moment, and our time, for change ? tonight we stan...
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Why not Hillary Clinton?
2008-05-06 22:39:00
The Nation has published what I think is one of the most reasoned and thoughtful discussions of sexism and racism in the 2008 presidential election: "Race to the Bottom" by Betsey Reed.In the course of Hillary Clinton 's historic run for the White House--in which she became the first woman ever to prevail in a state-level presidential primary contest--she has been likened to Lorena Bobbitt (by Tucker Carlson); a "hellish housewife" (Leon Wieseltier); and described as "witchy," a "she-devil," "anti-male" and "a stripteaser" (Chris Matthews). Her loud and hearty laugh has been labeled "the cackle," her voice compared to "fingernails on a blackboard" and her posture said to look "like everyone's first wife standing outside a probate court." As one Fox News commentator put it, "When Hillary Clinton speaks, men hear, Take out the garbage." Rush Limbaugh, who has no qualms about subjecting audiences to the spectacle of his own bloated physique, asked his listeners, "Will this country wan...
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What Loving is all about
2008-05-06 14:11:00
Hat tip to Meteor Blades at DailyKos On Friday, Mildred Loving died at the age of 68. According to The New York Times article about her death:Loving [who is black] and her white husband, Richard, changed history in 1967 when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld their right to marry. The ruling struck down laws banning racially mixed marriages in at least 17 states.If you are not a fan of history, you may remember the Lovings from the 1996 television movie "Mr. & Mrs. Loving," starring Lela Rochon and Timothy Hutton.In June 2007, on the 40th anniversary of the Loving vs. Virginia case, Mildred penned the following public statement:Loving for AllBy Mildred LovingPrepared for Delivery on June 12, 2007,The 40th Anniversary of the Loving vs. Virginia AnnouncementWhen my late husband, Richard, and I got married in Washington, DC in 1958, it wasn?t to make a political statement or start a fight. We were in love, and we wanted to be married. We didn?t get married in Washington because we wante...

The truth about Barack Obama and white voters
2008-05-04 20:43:00
In a post on Saturday, Jack and Jill Politics blogger, Rikyrah, says that thinking voters need to shine a light on the racially biased way the media is framing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton 's popularity among black and white voters respectively.Rikyrah led me to an excellent post by Al Giordano at The Field.Giordano says of the media:They?ve swallowed the Clinton racially-obsessed spin, hook, line and sinker. Some, because they are gullible, haven?t an original idea in their little pea brains, and follow the pack of what everybody else is talking about. Others, because they like to toss around knowing falsehoods. Nary a superdelegate can go on Fox News without being berated by an anchorperson screeching (this is pretty close to an exact quote): ?But your duty as a superdelegate is to select the most electable and that?s Hillary Clinton!? That these anchorpersons are Republican partisans openly cheering for Senator Clinton is our first clue of the game afoot. One of the major suc...
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Superdelegates: Respect the will of the electorate
2008-05-02 19:09:00
Some leaders in the Democratic Party are playing with fire. They think that they can betray the will of millions of voters--and choose Hillary Clinton as the nominee, regardless of whether or not she is the choice of the voters. We can't let this happen. It would be the largest disenfranchisement in modern history, and it would mean the Democratic Party giving their stamp of approval to a clear and consistent pattern of race-baiting by the Clinton campaign.If we make our voices heard, we can stop it. Please join us in signing an open letter to leaders in the Democratic Party -- DNC Chair Howard Dean, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and all superdelegates -- demanding that they reject an outcome that involves trampling voting rights and legitimizing the politics of division and fear:http://www.colorofchange.org/dems/?i d=2425-542101By the time the last vote is cast on June 3rd under the rules of the Democratic Party, it's unlikely Hillary Clinto...
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