As an African-American, I have believed for a long time that the Democratic party was the most likely party to have the interests of the minority at heart. In recent weeks, though, I am reconsidering those thoughts. I have seen more race baiting and racially incendiary comments from the Hillary camp, than I've ever seen from the Republicans. It's shocking! Geraldine Ferraro's unapologetic, ridiculous comments only confirm to me that this is what's being said behind the scenes in Hillary's campaign.
I take personal offense to the way she is campaigning. It seems to me that Hillary and Bill are trying to diminish all that Obama is and has accomplished by trying to paint him as just the 'Black Guy'. They are trying to make him into a one dimensional character who's only defined by his race, forgetting all he has accomplished in his professional and private life.
I believe I can safely predict that Hillary is on track to fracture the party and possibly blow the election. If she succeeds and wins the nomination with these racially divisive tactics, Black folk are going to turn away from the Dems and probably stay home. Personally, I'm voting for McCain if Hillary gets the nomination over Barack and I've encouraged everyone I know to do the same. The other side of the coin is that even if Obama gets the nomination, Hillary has given McCain lots of fuel for his fire. If you ask me, Hillary is on the road to losing this election BIG TIME for the Dems.
I'm the Average Black Man, and that's my two cents.
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From: Blacks4Barack! SHARE THE FACTS !!!
MEDIA EXPOSED ! Coniving Media Never Mentions Rev. Wright's Sermon Was Quoting A WHITE MAN on Fox News !
Meet the man who inspired Reverend Jeremiah Wright's now famous tirade about America's foreign policy inciting the terrorist attacks of September 11.
His name is Ambassador Edward Peck. And he is a retired, white, career U.S. diplomat who served 32-years in the U.S. Foreign Service and was chief of the U.S. mission to Iraq under Jimmy Carter -- hardly the black-rage image with which Wright has been stigmatized.
In fact, when Wright took the pulpit to give his post-9/11 address -- which has since become boiled down to a five second sound bite about "America's chickens coming home to roost" -- he prefaced his remarks as a "faith footnote," an indication that he was deviating from his sermon.
"I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday," Wright declared. "He was on Fox News. This is a white man and he was upsetting the Fox News commentators to no end. He pointed out, a white man, an ambassador, that what Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Muhammad was in fact true: America's chickens are coming home to roost."
Wright then went on to list more than a few U.S. foreign policy endeavors that, by the tone of his voice and manner of his expression, he viewed as more or less deplorable. This included, as has been demonstrated in the endless loop of clips from his sermon, bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki and nuking "far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye."
"Violence begets violence," Wright said, "hatred begets hatred, and terrorism begets terrorism."
And then he concluded by putting the comments on Peck's shoulders: "A white ambassador said that yall, not a black militant, not a reverend who preaches about racism, an ambassador whose eyes are wide open and is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice... the ambassador said that the people we have wounded don't have the military capability we have, but they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands with them... let me stop my faith footnote right there."
So it seems that while Wright did believe American held some responsibility for 9/11, his views, which have been described as radically outside the political mainstream, were actually influenced by a career foreign policy official.
Who is Peck? The ambassador, who has offered controversial criticism of Israeli policy in the West Bank but also warned against the Iraq War, was lecturing on a cruise ship and was unavailable for comment. But officials at Peck's former organization, the Council for the National Interest, a non-profit group that advocates reducing Israel's influence on U.S. Middle East policy, offered descriptions of the man.
"Peck is very outspoken," said Eugene Bird, who now heads CNI. "He is also very good at making phrases that have a resonance with the American people. When he came off of that Fox News, a few days later he said they would never invite me back again."
And what, exactly, did Peck say in that Fox News interview that inspired Wright's words?
Here are some quotes from an appearance the Ambassador made on the network on October 11, 2001, which may or may not have been the segment Wright was referring to. On the show, Peck said he thought it was illogical to tie Saddam Hussein to the terrorist attacks on 9/11, and that while the then-Iraqi leader had "some very sound and logical reasons not to like [the United States]," he and Osama bin Laden had no other ties.
From there, Peck went on to ascribe motives for what prompted the 9/11 attacks. "Stopping the economic embargo and bombings of Iraq," he said, "things to which Osama bin Laden has alluded as the kinds of things he doesn't like. He doesn't think it's appropriate for the United States to be doing, from his perspective, all the terrible things that he sees us as having been doing, the same way Saddam Hussein feels. So from that perspective, they have a commonality of interests. But they also have a deeply divergent view of the role of Islam in government, which would be a problem."
NOTE: So there you go. All this time the media NEVER let us know that Rev. Wright was simply quoting someone else....a distinguished WHITE MAN....on FOX NEWS ! The coniving, destructive, falsified, hate mongoring tactics of the media WILL NOT BE TOLERATED !
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From Blacks4Barack...THE BLACK VOTE IS THE KEY THIS TUESDAY !!!The media thinks that blacks are absolutely stupid. They've been watching the powerful solidarity in the black community during this campaign and they're hoping we're stupid enough to lose focus and become divided over the media created Rev. Wright situation. Keep in mind....in Pa. 92% of all black voters voted for Obama. That's powerful ! Only one problem....not enough registered black voters actually voted !!!! This Tuesday...May 6th....EVERY Black voter MUST VOTE in N. Carolina and Indiana !!!!! BECOME A VOLUNTEER....MAKE PHONE CALLS....TAKE SOMEONE TO THE POLLS....CARPOOL...This Tuesday, the most important vote will be the black vote. When we go out in record numbers, the DNC and superdelegates will know that we are united for Obama...and the Re-Birth of America. This is it ! It is your responsibilty to GET FIRED UP !!!! Not only for yourself....but for the future of your children.
p.s. Hillary Clinton has still not made a comment on the Sean Bell killing which occured in her state.
Visit: www.Blacks4Barack.org for Phone Bank Volunteer (make calls from your home)info and Much More ! Over this weekend...send comments everywhere (particularly Indiana & N.Carolina)to get our people fired up !!!!
p.s.s. Did you hear???? Some Hillary superdelgates (Joe Andrew, Indiana)have SWITCHED to Obama today !!!!MORE TO COME...THEY'RE WATCHING US !!!!
Say It Loud...BARACK & I'M PROUD !!!
Please, don't stay home. At the least, make your vote heard and recorded by writing in the candidate of your choice. They do have to tabulate each and every vote, no matter who it's for, and that will give the Dems a record of just how many votes would have counted toward a real victory and not allow them to wave it away with a "oh those folks would have stayed home anyway" or a "who knows just how many we lost?".
Colorofchange is circulating an online petition to make our views known. Please, sign it and post it so that as many of us as possible can be noted.
http://www.colorofchange.org/dems/
And? While her campaign is indeed doing whatever possible to tear apart the base of the party, the bottom line fact remains - the math is against her. Period.
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