"White Americans"?
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Here's the quote Hillary Clinton gave today that's got everyone talking:
Not unexpectedly, that quote has received a sharp response from blogs. What do you think? What should we make of that comment?
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
Not unexpectedly, that quote has received a sharp response from blogs. What do you think? What should we make of that comment?
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This is what is so disturbing about the Hillary campaign tactics of race baiting. Senator Clinton is not creating dialogue from which understanding and movement forward comes but creates racial divides from the prism of an economic zero non sum game.
Reading the code words of "hard working" for whites but implies the negative stereotyping of "lazy" for Afro-Americans.
Is the national electoral process going to play to the Southern strategies of failed Republican party politics?
It seems to me that the speech that Senator Obama gave a few short weeks ago is...long forgotten.
We don't need to replay the tired political strategy of "battle ground" states (because that is the antithesis of what Howard Dean's 50 State strategy is about) which allows for the Republicans to concentrate their resources to a dozen states. When I talk about resources I mean the tools that will be used to effectively disenfranchise voters in those battle ground states including mandating that citizens must provide birth certificates in order to register to vote.
When I read about the strategies being deployed by the Obama campaign there are new ways to empower people to participate in the political process in America.
Isn't it time for all citizens have equal access to the ballot box and to feel that they are part and parcel to the process of electing their representatives?