Comments on: Speech Today

By: barb

barb — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:55:38 +0000

I don’t believe this speech makes him “The Black Candidate.” I think it clearly points out they we are at a crossroads. On the one hand there are those who continue to use race as a wedge to keep people from uniting against the real culprits. In my opinion the Clintons are certainly in this camp, apparently knowing no other way than to keep on wedging away to gain politically and direct attention away from the fact that so many of the damaging economic forces at work today were unleashed during the Clinton administration. Then there are those, on the other hand, who believe the only way to effectively address economic class issues is to persusade citizens from all racial and ethnic backgrounds to recognize that we are all more alike than we are different, and to rally them to act accordingly against the agents of the status quo that are perpetrating the injustices.

By: k

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:02:47 +0000

And his wife is going to stand beside him?
(Man, I hate people, including myself most days.)
Shockingly enough, JKFriz, most people are racist in some way or another. I’m thinking it will be another hundred years before that is really minimized, because a good deal of the country is in fact segregated - not by law, but by the fact that there are no people of another color living there. We’re getting closer, and that makes me happy, but it doesn’t mean we’re there yet.
Much as I am leaning towards Clinton, I hope Obama pulls this off.

By: JKFriz

JKFriz — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:59:24 +0000

Good heavens. So, when folks from the Clinton campaign, including the former president of the United States, nakedly attempt to diminish your achievements by dismissing you as the “Black Candidate” - you’re supposed to grin and bear it, or else you’ll be labeled as the “Black Candidate?” I’m willing to believe that this may be true, but the picture that paints of our society is so ugly and depressing that I don’t want to even contemplate it.