As the Owner/Editor of this blog I will reiterate what Janis said above. One of your comments has been removed, please steer clear of all insults and bashing or you will be put on moderation and all of your comments will have to be approved before they appear.

Black men and white women have been pawns for decades (white black women placed into whichever category lets them get as little support as possible). The fact that Obama is black gives white people (mostly men, but a few women with serious problems) an excuse to savage the hell out of Hillary Clinton and still call themselves liberals. In their heart of hearts, they couldn’t give a damn for the obstacles that confront black men in this countrry. He just makes an attractive bludgeon to go after someone else. Like when white men used white women and our supposed saintly sexual purity as bludgeons to send black men to jail and kill them.

We’ve been pawns set against one another for decades — but without us both, they are left simply being the hateful creatures they are instead of pretending to care deeply about one at the expense of the other. Without both of us on the stage, they are exposed as both racist and sexist. Unfortunately, this primary contest has give them free reign.

It reminds me of the old book “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The black man was sent to jail, the white woman was raped and beaten repeatedly by her father. Only the white male justice system triumphed. And without a black man to take the blame or a white woman forced to strke out at anyone to keep frmo being raped and beaten one more time, the whole game would fall apart. It’s all so depressing, and it just pits us against one another.

I could say “if we let it,” but I don’t know how to avoid it if the playing field is set out for us. It’s like telling someone that they could walk through a minefield if only they just pretended the mines weren’t there. Well, they are. Pretending won’t make them go away. And I don’t WANT to blow my own leg off, and I don’t WANT to blow yours off either. And I’m seeing more and more white men shaking my belief that they are always and only my enemy.

I fear we’ll lose either way, but I’ll be left with the cold comfort of two or three newspapers articles that make me think that maybe everyone isn’t entirely irredeemable. It’s just not enough anymore.

Michelle Obama is probably roughly my age; I have been proud of my country a few times since I grew into adulthood, but they have been few and far between.

The problem is that they have all been during the Clinton adminsitration, the only Democratic administration for the past thirty-almost years.

If Michelle Obama had stated the more accurate truth that she has been proud of her country very few times in her adult life, she would have been pressed to name the times she had been. Every single one of those times would have been from 1992 to 2000 and hence Clinton’s campaign would have seized on them as grist for their mills.

As a consequence, she was very, very careful to say “for the first time in my adult life” because that neatly amputated the period between 1992-2000 when the US did a few things right.

Completely calculated — unlike them, I don’t consider that to be an indication of pure coalhearted evil. The problem here is the hypocrisy that calls Clinton a cunning snake when she chooses her words carefully, while anyone named Obama gets a pass for what is the exact same surgical word choice.

To the substance: We have two African-Americans on this string. What an interesting development. We don’t hear much about minority support for HRC except in the Latino community.

Thanks for being readers. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

I’ve been off-line for a few days or I’d have been posting too.

Stuart

Dude, that ain’t going to put another Republican in the Whitehouse.

Clindon did not endorse McCain. She said that both she and McCain crossed the C-in-C threshold and that Obama would have to make his own case (Regardless of what we think of McCain, it is accepted as a given that he has crossed that line). That is it. How did Obama and people like you react? By distorting what she said and refusing to prove Obama’s case for being qualified.

I swear, after McPeak’s bizarre attack upon Bill Clinton, it seems as if Obama expects the Clinton camp to campaign on his behalf. Never mind the fact that it is the Obama camp that has repeatedly smeared Clinton, trying to cripple her candidacy. No double standard there.