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RACE

The Legacy of My Grandmother

By Allison Samuels | NEWSWEEK
Mar 17, 2008 Issue

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  • Posted By: fan_chor-cheung @ 05/11/2008 10:02:18 AM

    Comment: To summarize this election:

    Obama and Black supportors reminisced wrestlers whose matches are pre-arranged and play by hitting under the belt theatric causing economic downturn just to win. So, stop watching American games. Obama's white supportors are insulting of their own race as incompetent and incapable to manage their own country . Whether Obama will be elected his "super delegates", who endorsed at other's expense, must be sentenced to live in Black neighborhoods for more than four years to find out what they are really like. The democratic governor of Oklahoma who had just endorsed Obama must be executed for causing their tornadoes. The communication media of the U. S. are circus clowns not worth commenting on because they have not given honest election comments. Hillary Clinton, best candidate in history, can be identified as a unspoiling mother who has wasted her own $10 mllion just to warn her stubborn and ignorance daughter not to date strangers in the street. American voters in general are "blind" to good judgement. Call your mother! Happy Mother Day!

  • Posted By: fan_chor-cheung @ 05/11/2008 9:57:51 AM

    Comment: To summarize this election:

    Obama and Black supportors reminisced wrestlers whose matches are pre-arranged and play by hitting under the belt theatric causing economic downturn just to win. So, stop watching American games. Obama's white supportors are insulting of their own race as incompetent and incapable to manage their own country . Whether Obama will be elected his "super delegates", who endorsed at other's expense, must be sentenced to live in Black neighborhoods for more than four years to find out what they are really like. The democratic governor of Oklahoma who had just endorsed Obama must be executed for causing their tornadoes. The communication media of the U. S. are circus clowns not worth commenting on because they have not given honest election comments. Hillary Clinton, best candidate in history, can be identified as a unspoiling mother who has wasted her own $10 mllion just to warn her stubborn and innocence daughter not to date strangers in the street. American voters in general are "blind" to good judgement. Call your mother! or grandmother! Happy Mother Day!

  • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 04/16/2008 11:44:42 PM

    Comment: Ok it took me a while but wow this article is crap. Aperantly all whites are racist like the Obama supporters try to argue. We should all have to pay reperasion right?

  • Posted By: stop the HATE and the LIES @ 03/16/2008 1:34:41 AM

    Comment: Who are these angry white people holding blacks back? My greatgrandfather was enslaved as a ship boy. Mrs. Obama had two parents. Her father worked (later developed MS) and her mother was in the home. She went to Whitney Magnet School and was on scholarship. Her parents didnt have to pay for her education. Brother at Princeton on a B-Ball scholarship. Barack went to a prestigious prep academy. How is this oppression? Isnt that what Mrs. Obama's thesis is about? Million dollar house, kids well-fed, getting excellent schooling. How is this oppression? Where are these white people that are holding you back? This is RACISM.

    WE ARE AMERICANS. Who continues to make this a race issue? 3am ad with one of those blonde babies (Obama supporter before the ad) has been turned into some fear-mongering about black men in the bushes and the KKK? Utter madness. Whose mindset is this? What type of tolerance and free thinking does this Harvard professor have? How did he get there? What???s he passing on to his students? US & THEM? Ask Oprah her take on her community. She has no problem exploiting her mostly white audience members.

    Let go of the hate. I dont know my ancestry. My GGF was brought here as a slave. I dont consider myself Scottish-American. Im an American as is everyone else who was born here (including Barack) or became a citizen. What percentage of her colleagues are homeless and being oppressed? This is RACISM.

    We have heard and seen how the man who baptized your babies rages such evil. Forget the words. Look at his face. The thought of your beautiful children sitting in the pew hearing pure unadulterated hate makes me cry.

    What legacy are you giving them? Your children-children poised to grow up in the WH-and your pastor is screaming how oppressed your people are? Youre holding on to this imagined oppression. YOU. How are your people aka our fellow Americans going to be inspired by you when you have a person agenda of black separist hate? Whos holding back whom?

    Please stop the lie of trying to unite cultures, religions, races. You???ve been exposed as racists-not the rich white people who vote for you. Lets see the integrity of your souls.

    Where is your kindness? Kindness shown to you? What are you teaching your babies about your country? Please stop the hating. Lets see your husbands transparency and dedication to his country. What type of change is 400 yrs of stored hate? Let it go. I didnt do it to you anymore than your GGF did it to mine.

    You embarrass the nation you are seeking to serve. And respectfully do not refer to yourself as the second coming of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy. It destroys her memory. Wasnt she one of those rich white ladies? Forget dressing like her. Try wearing her kindness, tolerance, acceptance and forgiveness. And then pass that along to your children. Thank you for listening. Your fellow citizen whose GGF was extremely proud of the country that allowed him to unenslave himself.

  • Posted By: aleafirst @ 03/14/2008 2:00:28 PM

    Comment: I am saddened by race continuously being interjected. I believe that the medi has much to do with it. Meanwhile, I also remember years ago that former President Bill Clinton sired a son by a black newswoman. I wonder if Clinton supports his son the way Strom Thurmond supported his daughter. Furthermore, I wonder if Senator Clinton has much to do with the child and maybe she looks at Senator Obama as a reminder of her husband's son.

  • Posted By: Tatumsworld @ 03/14/2008 10:25:20 AM

    Comment: I am saddened by race being interjected ever so subtley but with a resounding loudness. It couldn't possibly be that black voters as well as whites want a change vs. they are voting by race. Divided we fall.
    Divided we fall.

  • Posted By: Tatumsworld @ 03/14/2008 10:23:57 AM

    Comment: I am so saddened about the recent vile interjections of race. Could it be that black voters want a change as much as white voters? I am just saddened to the core of the race mind bending politics and the race as a fear tactic rooted in racisim iteself as a way to bend the white minds to think that maybe an american who happens to be black would be their undoing somehow. It is sad and sad again. I want to cry when I see the news reports against Obama.

  • Posted By: Tatumsworld @ 03/14/2008 10:23:54 AM

    Comment: I am so saddened about the recent vile interjections of race. Could it be that black voters want a change as much as white voters? I am just saddened to the core of the race mind bending politics and the race as a fear tactic rooted in racisim iteself as a way to bend the white minds to think that maybe an american who happens to be black would be their undoing somehow. It is sad and sad again. I want to cry when I see the news reports against Obama.

  • Posted By: Tatumsworld @ 03/14/2008 10:21:52 AM

    Comment: I am so saddened about the recent vile interjections of race. Could it be that black voters want a change as much as white voters? I am just saddened to the core of the race mind bending politics and the race as a fear tactic rooted in racisim iteself as a way to bend the white minds to think that maybe an american who happens to be black would be their undoing somehow. It is sad and sad again. I want to cry when I see the news reports against Obama.

  • Posted By: Christines @ 03/14/2008 9:50:25 AM

    Comment: Obama's mentor and life time friend Pastor Wright has a great deal to say! Does Obama?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdJB-qkfUHc

  • Posted By: HATETHECLINTON @ 03/12/2008 11:54:51 PM

    Comment: You must forgot George W. Bush military experience is only flying planes in the US, while real military men and women was fighting in vietnam. Bill Clinton never join the military and had no problem sending real men and women in harm way.

  • Posted By: KenO @ 03/12/2008 5:46:50 PM

    Comment: I am black and must admit really ashamed when I read stuff like this suggesting that somehow a bi-racial man whose experiences as a black man in America clearly do not reflect those of most African-Americans, will offer great hope to black people in this country. Barack Obama has gone out of his way to be 'race-neutral" to win votes in several states! It is nerve-wracking to think we are still seduced so easily in the year 2008;What is he promising that gives black people such hope? Let us stop voting on emotion so we don't end up with a McCain presidency. Don't choose between having a black president or a woman president, choose an experienced president who is capable of improving our lives as Americans; blacks or women

    • Posted By: FeministBoomer @ 03/14/2008 19:26:37

      Comment: I take a little issue with your comment "Let us stop voting on emotion........., and choose an experienced president..... Mrs. Clinton doesn't have expericence running anything but a senate office and her campaign. She hasn't done a very good job with the campaign......being she's fighting for her life when she had the money the power of her party behind her just 3 months ago........ It doesn't matter what race the president is.......What matters is if he or she can mobilize the American people to improve the lives of American's......... Mrs. Clinton's 'scortch the earth politics will not work! Anyone living in this county for the last 25 years can attest to that fact! Our government/politics are polorized and nothing gets done.........Our water, air and earth are polluted..........our financial markets are crumbling............our currency in becoming worthless daily...........we are brorrowing more money that we can pay back in 3 or 4 generations..........the list is starting to be endless. It's time out for playing politics and get on with running the country out of the ditch!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And YES WE CAN DO THAT, with someone that wants the country to come together, and that will bring a congress and senate with him to Washington to get it done................

  • Posted By: brownize @ 03/12/2008 3:39:42 AM

    Comment: It is time that the Clintons quietly fade away into history and let the only qualified Presidential candidate that can give us a reason to believe that our country can once more become the United States of America instead of the Divided States of America. We cannot rewrite history, but we can learn much from the past, we can redirect our troubling downward course. We can ???change??? the future of this country, it is not an ???empty promise???, nor is it ???just words???. ???Change??? was the inspirational message of Barack Obama???s campaign from day one. Change we can believe in, and I voted for him because I believe in him. I, for one, now have hopes that in the near future, with Barack Obama in the Oval Office, we can attain a brighter tomorrow. During this election period I keep trying to slap away at the little nagging thoughts, the grim reality of despair that we could be facing more wars without Barack Obama and his talented diplomacy. We need someone in charge who will confront our enemies, but not play ???sic em??? every time opponents raise their heads. A rush to judgment is blamed for much of the unenviable state we are in at the present time. But hope, hope is our way out of so much hopelessness, such apathy. That hope is what makes me look forward to some years of serenity in which I can enjoy my hard-earned retirement. I can shed the uneasy anxiety and concern that my children and grandchildren will never know a country that is not at war from within and from without this land. I urge you to join me and believe in what can be achieved. Through the inspiration, integrity, leadership, and honesty of Barack Obama, we can all succeed in building a better future not only for us, but as a respected world leader. (If you are wondering why I voted for Obama, it is because he is the right choice. It has nothing to do race or gender, it is the character of a person that matters. I am not black, I am not wealthy, and I do not have a college degree. Don???t stereotype Obama???s supporters, we are not fanatical, a cult, we come from every walk of life. I am a white, seventy-one year-old grandmother, and I manage to get by, no luxuries for me. But I have hope now, reason to go on believing that the best is yet to be. My family keeps me going, puts a smile on my face and tickles my heart. As it also is obvious from my writing, I cannot write in paragraphs. Sorry, critics, but my brain refuses to think in paragraphs, my thoughts may tumble out but it???s honest speaking from my heart. So, it is what it is. Goodnight all. Remember our troops and their sacrifices.

  • Posted By: pezled @ 03/11/2008 9:48:23 AM

    Comment: Two Americas
    The one the Obamas live in and the one for the rest of us.


    First it was millionaire trial lawyer John Edwards whining about two Americas.

    Even Democrats rolled their eyes at his $400 haircuts and 25,000-square-foot home (10 times the national average for a new home).

    Now it is Princess Michelle???s turn.

    Actual quote via Jack Kelly:

    ???We spend between the two kids, on extracurriculars outside the classroom, we???re spending about $10,000 a year on piano and dance and sports supplements. And summer programs??? Do you know what summer camp costs????

    Well, actually I don???t. None of my kids went. I spent a week once at Camp Wanakee.

    ???The salaries don???t keep up with the cost of paying off the debt, so you???re in your 40s, still paying off your debt at a time when you have to save for your kids,??? her highness complained.

    Kelly pointed out that in 2005, Mrs. O???s salary was $316,962 at the University of Chicago Hospital. She???s a lawyer, not a doctor.

    Hubby???s pay as a U.S. senator topped $160 K that year.

    If you are struggling to make ends meet on a half-million a year ??? a 1040 that puts you in the top 2% of Americans ??? then the problem is you, not the country.

    Still this woman, who was never proud of America when her husband was elected to the state legislature or even the United States Senate, whines and whines and whines.

    America is, she said, ???just downright mean.???

    Someone play ???God Bless the USA??? for her. She just doesn???t get it.
    ------by Don Surber

  • Posted By: SantaMonicaJoe @ 03/10/2008 4:55:00 PM

    Comment: One of the best arguments ever made for women to vote for Hillary. Women's issues do not go away with color. Otherwise so many white women and their children would not live in poverty.

  • Posted By: KennyF @ 03/10/2008 4:01:31 PM

    Comment: I would want to ask as a male why black women and white women are tearing themselves and each other up about this choice. A non-choice really, because trapped in a prison cell and given a truth serum, both Hillary and Obama would give the same policy answers and priorities. I think that the heat that is developing between these two critical legs of the progressive coalition reveal more about their insecurities that the candidates.


    White women, feel the glass ceiling and decades of demeaning and demoralizing attitudes, not to mention down right physical danger in a male-dominated society. Black women feel all this an the weight of racism and one more thing, the weight over being undesired, de-feminized by a white-dominated society.

    Both you gals have legitimate issues, but both you gals are letting your life experiences and issues cloud your political judgment. White women forget the added dimension of race that black women feel. They should accept cupability for a women's movement that overwhelmingly white. If they had addressed these racial disparities upfront a decade ago they wouldn't be losing so many black women to Obama. Black women forget that women, black or not, are uniquely disadvantaged in our testosterone-fueled society. Discounting the gains fought for by generations of feminists because they weren't labelled "for black women" is churlish and self-denying in the long run. I would also add that the public declarations of racial solidarity with Obama despite all other positive attributes with hamstring Obama in the general election.

    • Posted By: pezled @ 03/11/2008 09:50:48

      Comment: "Both you GALS"????????????????????? SOUNDS MORE THAN A LITTLE BIT CONDESCENDING THERE! Watch out, your true feelings are showing.........

  • Posted By: KennyF @ 03/10/2008 3:08:55 PM

    Comment: My only problems is your estimation that the race for the presidency should be based on tribal commonality, even over experience. It sounds as if you are saying that getting a black president is more important that getting a qualified one. This would be heart-warming (if exclusionary) but for one thing. With Hillary, you get most of the nice warm tribal feeling, but in a package with a little bit (not much) more experience. Given that we Afican-Americans were solidly in the CLintons corner as 12 months ago, and that nothing damning has come out about them in terms of race relations, it seems like a callous, disloyal act to intimate that Hillary can't delive for black America when she has been helping her husband do it for a decade.

    Second, your comments about disintegrating black families, black men in jail and Katrina show your main concerns, concerns that could be addressed by either Hillary or Obama in the White House BUT could not be with a conservative 71-year white guy from Arizona. I think my black sisters are closing their ears to this simple fact for reasons of misplaced and outdated tribal loyalty.

    • Posted By: cdelliott @ 03/12/2008 01:42:39

      Comment: EnteLastly, if you have truly been observing this race, don't you find it a bit disturbing that it is okay for white women to be 'Pro-Hillary', Hispanics in general to be 'Pro-Hillary', so called working-class American's (which is oftentimes code for anti-black) to be 'Pro-Hillary' and even to some degree African American women (Maya Angelou, Jacqueline Jackson, etc.) to be Pro-Hillary but as soon as African Americans as a group stand behind Obama, it's somehow 'just because he's Black'. Hillary has gone so far as to dismiss any state with a large African American population as though they don't matter any longer - she won't be their president...only the president of those states with people who like her. What type of leader is this? To me it is all very insulting because it is the age old story of the childish, impish freed Negro who doesn't have any idea about what's best for him outside of what people from the 'qualified' race says is best. Barack Obama is a man of African heritage who has inspired a nation to live in deeds and not words...people from all walks of life want him to be president because they believe that America can truly live up to what she has always said are her ideals.
      P.S. If it helps, why don't we forget about how the candidates present their historical records and look at things from the perspective of organizational management - which is basically what the President of the United States needs to have in order to be effective. Hands down the Obama campaign has been more organized, efficient, effective at raising funds, and showing an ability to work together harmoniously in spite of being in a pressure cooker. I definitely want someone with those qualities answering the White House phone at 3 in the morning because I know that person will be able to bring the best experts to the table...because contrary to popular belief...no President works alone
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    • Posted By: cdelliott @ 03/12/2008 01:41:44

      Comment: Since the American presidency was established it has been raced based...white men have been defined as the only true qualified leaders of this nation. As you look at the historical record there are just as many instances of white men and women working to either deny or invalidate the rights of African Americans to have any semblance of self-determination. Even suffragists (and their descendants - feminists) have expressed utter contempt for the fact that African American men had the right to vote and they didn't.
      Now you talk about African Americans being solidly in Clinton's corner I would suggest that it was because 12 months ago African Americans were still believing that it was 'wholly impossible' for us to have an equal place at the table. What I find surprising when I talk to 'enlightened' sisters and brothers who support Hillary is that they have little understanding of the policies that Bill sponsored and Hillary endorsed when he was President of the United States (since she claims co-presidency as part of her 'experience I think it is fair game to delineate just what happened). The author's comments about disintegrating black families, black men in jail, etc. are direct results of policies enacted by then President Clinton. Welfare reform, which they are so proud to taut, was actually developed by Newt Gingrich and is formally known as the Republican Contract with America - little change was made in this doctrine that basically maintains a permanent underclass because it cuts off access to higher education and mandates employment in most times low paying jobs. Hillary likes to talk about her work in Civil Rights and how she learned so much working for the Children's Defense Fund but why don't you ask CDF founder Marian Wright Edelman her views on Clintons role in welfare reform. Furthermore, during former Pres. Clinton's time in office, he expanded on the Republican war on drugs effort by supporting legislation that ensured sentencing disparities, the expansion of prison construction as business, and reinjecting the image of young black males as expendable chattel. Still interestingly, there was little concern in the Clinton white house for diasporic African concerns such as Haiti (if you came from Haiti you were turned back in the water, however our doors were and have been open to Cubans, Asians, and other 'acceptable' minority groups. While Hillary traveled to Ireland and worked to broker peace, she and Bill turned their backs on the genocide in Rwanda. There is a great disparity when it comes to issues of race globally and the Clinton's showed where they stood.

    • Posted By: cdelliott @ 03/12/2008 01:40:12

      Comment: Since the American presidency was established it has been raced based...white men have been defined as the only true qualified leaders of this nation. As you look at the historical record there are just as many instances of white men and women working to either deny or invalidate the rights of African Americans to have any semblance of self-determination. Even suffragists (and their descendants - feminists) have expressed utter contempt for the fact that African American men had the right to vote and they didn't.
      Now you talk about African Americans being solidly in Clinton's corner I would suggest that it was because 12 months ago African Americans were still believing that is was 'wholly impossible' for us to have an equal place at the table. What I find surprising when I talk to 'enlightened' sisters and brothers who support Hillary is that they have little understanding of the policies that Bill sponsored and Hillary endorsed when he was President of the United States (since she claims co-presidency as part of her 'experience I think it is fair game to delineate just what happened). The author's comments about disintegrating black families, black men in jail, etc. are direct results of policies enacted by then President Clinton. Welfare reform, which they are so proud to taut, was actually developed by Newt Gingrich and is formally known as the Republican Contract with America - little change was made in this doctrine that basically maintains a permanent underclass because it cuts off access to higher education and mandates employment in most times low paying jobs. Hillary likes to talk about her work in Civil Rights and how she learned so much working for the Children's Defense Fund but why don't you ask CDF founder Marian Wright Edelman her views and Clintons role in welfare reform. Furthermore, during former Pres. Clinton's time in office, he expanded on the Republican war on drugs effort by supporting legislation that ensured sentencing disparities, the expansion of prison construction as business, and reinjecting the image of young black males as expendable chattel. Still interestingly, there was little concern in the Clinton white house for diasporic African concerns such as Haiti (if you came from Haiti you were turned back in the water, however our doors were and have been open to Cubans, Asians, and other 'acceptable' minority groups. While Hillary traveled to Ireland and worked to broker peace, she and Bill turned their backs on the genocide in Rwanda. There is a great disparity when it comes to issues of race globally and the Clinton's showed where they stood.

  • Posted By: breit1 @ 03/10/2008 2:13:06 PM

    Comment:

    This will never happen, because, all the democrats, who would have voted for Hillary, will vote Republican.

    Thus add 40% to the Republican vote, and they win, by a huge majority. It???s obvious!!!

    Say 'HI' to the next First Family
    Barack stands behind Kezia (stepmother) in a Kenyan family shot. (Including brother Abongo 'Roy' Obama who is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must 'liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture.'
    'Abongo's new lifestyle has left him lean and clear-eyed, and at the wedding, he looked so dignified in his black African gown with white trim and matching cap that so many of our guests mistook him for my father,' Obama wrote in Dreams From My Father.

    • Posted By: metzlerd @ 03/10/2008 14:45:32

      Comment: I'm an independent.
      Why would Democrats switch party. Does that mean Democrats have no loyalty to their own party? What's the point in registering as a specific party, if you just plan to bolt if your selection doesn't win the nomination.
      If that's true there is no Democratic party.
      It might also explain the whole flip-flop label that the Republicans started using a while back. ;-)

  • Posted By: blwboo @ 03/10/2008 11:06:59 AM

    Comment: Again, lets hold all the white people responsible for all the black people's problems!!! Maybe if the blacks would stop murdering and robbing, just maybe, some of your damned problems would cease. I am tired of living under the threat of violence in my own country.

    • Posted By: kvknight @ 03/10/2008 18:02:46

      Comment: Until you have walked a day in the shoes of a minority, you have no room to judge their views or feelings. I don't agree with everything stated in this article, but I agree with many things. The author's feeling have nothing to do with black on black crime but everything to do with being turned down for a job because of your color, it has to do with people crossing the street because they are scared of you.

      • Posted By: blwboo @ 03/11/2008 14:18:37

        Comment: I AM a minority you moron. You don't think I have not been turned down for promotion after promotion because I am a female??? You don't think I have been turned down for promotions so they could give promotions to less qualified blacks??? Don't you dare talk to me a MY experiences. You are an F#%&*G idiot!

        • Posted By: cdelliott @ 03/12/2008 02:45:59

          Comment: I hate to break it to you, but you are what can be called a "minority of convenience". When it benefits you, you play the minority card but the wonderful thing about who you are is that at any time you can choose your privilege persona. As for being turned down, maybe You thought the person was less qualified but maybe...just maybe (and especially as evidenced by much of your opinions on this board) you didn't cut the mustard. For all that you say about African Americans and men, you seem to be a really unhappy person who blames the world for your obvious incompetencies.

        • Posted By: blwboo @ 03/11/2008 14:22:12

          Comment: See what you buddy Barack is doing? HE is the one dividing, NOT Hillary. And I will tell you this. I would NEVER vote for or against someone just because of sex or race. Can 90% of the black population voting for Obama say the same??? I doubt it.

          • Posted By: HATETHECLINTON @ 03/12/2008 23:58:59

            Comment: Race was first mention by Hillary Selfish Clinton. She would destroy the Democrats party if they don''t pick her. Selfish and hateful women.

          • Posted By: cdelliott @ 03/12/2008 02:42:34

            Comment: Yes they absolutely can. Voting in America has always been about electing the person that you believe represents your interests. For African Americans and any other minority you only had the option of voting for one white man against the other, knowing full well neither of them really cared about what was needed in your community.
            It's so easy to think African Americans are simply voting based on race because it is a carefully manufactured view that we are somehow incapable of making decisions in any other way. Nobody decries the fact that most lower class whites who vote Republican do so because they believe it's about black v. whites (although TRUE Republicans know it's more about class - rich v poor); Nobody decries the fact that Hispanics overwhelmingly prefer identify with white culture than African American and therefore wouldn't even consider the idea of an African American president because of his race. In America, it has been the long held belief that African Americans are not good enough, not smart enough and not worthy of citizenry but yet we have always been the ones to take America to task to uphold the words...'we hold these truths to be self-evident...that all men are created equal"

  • Posted By: soren lerby @ 03/10/2008 11:00:53 AM

    Comment: What is all this feminist orgy going on in Newsweek? Obama could never had such a lopsided coverage in favour of him even after 11 consecutive wins, but Hillary does, even with one not-exactly-landslide win in predominantly white, old, blue-color State and barely holding onto a popular vote win (and possibly losing out on a delegate count) in what was once her firewall State. It looks like all the old, white female writers in the Newsweek came out from hiding from the long and disappointing February and chanting feminists roar. February must have felt like forever for these ladies who were frustrated by black men utterly clobbering old white woman in Presidential nomination race (it didn't help that there was an additional day in the month). Gee, in old days, white women in the South could accuse innocent black men who they don't like of rape and have their white brothers beat them up. That was only 40 years ago. What a difference time makes, now all they could do was their feminist heroin and her campaign fumbling. ( I wonder how many of those very old white women who innocently say "I want to see a woman President in my lifetime", actually are guilty of accusation of false rape against black men in the 50's and 60's.)

    Why is this feminist media orgy, and no party for Obama? Let's see how many African-Americans are in Newsweek, as writers, staffers, etc. I don't see many (in fact none of the opinion writers are black). Now let's see how many women are there? Many. I don't know how many more junior writers and staffers are women, but I suspect a lot of them. Those old white women in the Newsweek, just like in Ohio or Texas or almost all the States who had primaries and caucuses, are just expressing their preferences. As old feminist guards, they practice what they preach. They are writers and staffers in the Newsweek, one of the preeminent weekly magazines, and it is read by millions of people, Their articles and coverage have influence on what people talk and how people think. They use there position to advance their agenda. If their heroin sister finally got a moment to shine a little, blow it out of proportion. If it is for a good cause, such old and tired media principle as a balanced and objective reporting could wait a while. Plus, March is a women's month, so what's wrong with it? Plus, this is not the first time Newsweek's women hijacked entire issue. It's funny how Hillary whine about media bias, when in most of the media, Newsweek and others, you will see so many old white women type, well-educated, pant-suit wearing, shoulder-pat feminists.

  • Posted By: tika @ 03/10/2008 10:47:26 AM

    Comment: blwboo unforunately, he was to lazy to pick his own cotton and had to use other human beings for his well being. You should be grateful that blacks picked those cotton, because God knows, you wouldn't have been able to survive without it.

    • Posted By: blwboo @ 03/10/2008 11:03:59

      Comment: You sure sound like you think you know me. But alas, you do not.

      • Posted By: metzlerd @ 03/10/2008 13:55:22

        Comment: Your attitude is pretty much showing that they've got you pegged.

  • Posted By: blwboo @ 03/10/2008 8:30:45 AM

    Comment: I am sick and tired of all the whining from the blacks in America! I was not alive during slavery and if I had been, I certainly would NOT have approved. However, there were white slaves too. So stop punishing those of us who were not responsible. When will it end???? Most blacks would not even be here had they not been brought here. I am begining to understand how my great grandfather felt. He said, "If I had known it would have been this much trouble, I would have picked my own damned cotton."

    • Posted By: cdelliott @ 03/12/2008 01:49:07

      Comment: Wow...it's comments like these that keeps America stuck on stupid. During the founding of America, there were not white slaves...they were indentured servants who knew they would be free in 7 years time...although many of them ran away and were able to integrate into white society. While you had no direct involvement, you have benefitted from the existence of the institution. While your great grandfather lamented about the question 'what to do with the emancipated African' I don't hear you telling the story of him turning over what he earned in cotton to the people who rightfully worked for the profit. Just as you say many black wouldn't be here if they hadn't been brought here...the continent of African wouldn't be ravaged as it is today if it's citizenry hadn't been stolen and transported here to do the work that's required to keep a nation moving forward.

    • Posted By: metzlerd @ 03/10/2008 13:53:20

      Comment: Check your facts. Crimes are not a problem of "Black people". They're a problem of people in general.
      The problems didn't end with slavery, but my guess is you already know that.

      • Posted By: blwboo @ 03/11/2008 14:23:55

        Comment: Then all of you go home! Since your opportunities would be so much better there! You people will never get over anything as long as you think you can get some kind of hand out.

        • Posted By: KeriTail @ 03/12/2008 12:30:47

          Comment: They are home. Blacks have been in America probably as long as many other people's families have been here. I can't fathom your hate for Obama or blacks for voting for him when you are voting for Clinton for nearly the same reason. By staying in the race Clinton is pulling the Democratic party apart, which has turned me off from her and I voted for Obama. I am a white female btw so it isn't a race or gender issue for me, it's simply who I think would be better for the country as a whole.

  • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 03/10/2008 6:50:29 AM

    Comment: Oh yeah, he fights the fair fight. That is why Obama lovers locked out Clinton's voters at the caucusesin Texas and who knows how many other states. What a shame when you vote for someone because of their race or gender instead of voting for facts. No matter how you try to make yourself feel better, the fact remains that per his votes (the few he has cast) he does not stand for the working class people so go ahead and vote for a pretty picture. I just hope in the end that other Americans don't have to live with your mistake.

    • Posted By: Pupster @ 03/10/2008 10:50:00

      Comment: Once again, Clinton supporters spreading her brand of lies. Hillary really sets the tone from the top. Just throw whatever claims out there and see what sticks. The truth is the Obama spent his whole adult life in public service, including working for laid off steel workers and advocating for the farmers in his state. As a state senator, he passed health care for all Illinois' children. All he's done is work for the middle and working class; he's never been rich in his life. He still isn't.

      As for the Texas caucus, wasn't it a Clinton activist who tried to run off with the sign in sheets to prevent them being counted? The caucus manager (non-affiliated) had to chase her down and take the sheets back. Pathetic.

      • Posted By: SantaMonicaJoe @ 03/10/2008 17:05:42

        Comment: He said/she said doesn't really matter. The Texas Two Step pointed out that caucuses do not reflect the popular will.

      • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 03/10/2008 11:19:52

        Comment: According to the article, there were Obama supporters who locked out Clinton supporters and this is backed up the attorney's who were there.

        • Posted By: cdelliott @ 03/12/2008 02:06:34

          Comment: Have you seen the video of the Clinton supporter Precinct Captain who was running out of the voting precinct carrying caucus materials that supported Hillary as well as blank materials yet she WOULD NOT accept the materials of those persons who had voted for Obama. It went so far that the head of the county democratic delegation got into a car chase with this person. I think that is a far more convincing testimony of things being problematic than the words of one lawyer. Also, the Texas Two Step does show the popular will... people who really want to support their candidate don't mind showing up twice to make their voice heard. If I remember it correctly...it's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil

        • Posted By: Pupster @ 03/10/2008 11:40:02

          Comment: The article that you are responding to has no such reference. Are you thinking of an article you have inside your head? Why don't you reference an article we can check, or are you just going off Drudge or the Enquirer?

          • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 03/10/2008 11:52:40

            Comment: Actually Newsweek and CNN both reported it!

            • Posted By: metzlerd @ 03/10/2008 14:01:36

              Comment: They did report that "one person said".
              That one person could have been Hillary's campaign manager.

              The reality is Texas was not prepared for the high turnout. All of the complaints are being investigated, and sighting the Clinton media machine does not present facts.
              You'd need to name the precinct, and the person who did it, or an unbiased witness.
              With the high turnout it is very likely that if anyone got locked out, it was people who arrived too late or whatever, and it's likely that the majority were Obama supporters..

            • Posted By: Pupster @ 03/10/2008 12:00:21

              Comment: Please, show a link!

  • Posted By: pezled @ 03/10/2008 6:41:09 AM

    Comment: This article seems to be basing your voting choice on Michelle Obama's "elegant charm" and also how cute her children would be playing on the White House lawn. Like you're looking for a poster family, not a president. We know so little about Barack Obama. He has no military experience, and like it or not, we are at war. You should vote as you desire - too bad you don't have a better reason.

    • Posted By: HATETHECLINTON @ 03/12/2008 23:51:04

      Comment: You talk about military experience, George W. Bush millitary experience was flying plane in the US. During the time real men and women was fight in Vietnam for us. Bill Clinton has no experience at all and he sent men and women in harm way.

    • Posted By: cdelliott @ 03/12/2008 02:10:23

      Comment: You obviously only read what you wanted to in the article but to go with you...there wasn't much of an outcry about "Camelot" with John-John playing under the President's desk. Instead it reinforced the image of a strong white family...which millions of Americans went on to attempt to emulate...Keeping with your line of reasoning with regard to knowing Obama..When did Hillary serve...I think it's absolutely true that you should know who you are voting for which is why if you are truly checking Hillary's carbon footprint you should have some concerns.

  • Posted By: HigherMinds @ 03/10/2008 3:34:24 AM

    Comment: Well, if Michelle Obama's "elegant charm" is equivalent to her rhetoric, what we can look forward to should they achieve the White House is a condescending, racial baiting, calculating woman. Beyond her racially charged speeches to black constituents, her bland face when launching attacks on others, her comments on only being proud of America now that her husband is running for office ... the following quote ought to give every thinking American reason to pause and think hard:

    " Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.???

    Deign??? [as in to condescend ... to lower oneself] I guess we can all fall down on our faces and be grateful someone so terrific and wonderful is lowering himself to try to grab what has historically been considered the highest office one can aspire to in America.

    • Posted By: FeministBoomer @ 03/14/2008 19:59:46

      Comment: I am so tired of people misquoting Mrs. Obama, She said, she has never been so, "get that" so proud to be an American. And I agree.......The way people are caring about the country enough to vote..........I haven't ever been so pround..........I think it's aburd to take offended by that statement.......WE ALL SHOULD BE VERY PROUD of the country how American's are saying they do matter in this election. After years of appathy!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: metzlerd @ 03/10/2008 14:09:15

      Comment: You ought to just go meet them.

    • Posted By: HigherMinds @ 03/10/2008 04:07:32

      Comment: I guess I have one more thing to add. Historically, most of the presidents have been men of profound intelligence ... who considered it an honor and privilege to serve the American people as president.

      • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 03/10/2008 11:40:20

        Comment: Yes, I guess we need to bow our heads and thank him & her for deciding to grace us with their presence.

  • Posted By: sstansbe @ 03/10/2008 3:31:53 AM

    Comment: I am half black and I'm also an Obama supporter. However, my decision to vote for him was not based upon race ( I was initially an avid Edwards supporter). After hearing his message, I realized that the change to which he was referring was about getting people involved in the process and reclaiming our great democracy. This message really resonated with me, because I was so disillusioned with all the apathy of my generation. It's about time we had someone who could inspire young people to do more than just pick up the phone and vote on American Idol. Also, I felt so powerless when we got into this war, so it's refreshing that Obama wants us to be active in the process, as opposed to Bush's almost fascist reign. That being said, it gives me great pride that Obama is black. But, hypothetically, if my choice was between Condoleeza Rice and Hillary Clinton in the general election, then rest assured that I'd be voting for Hillary (even though I now despise her). I think this would be true of most black voters. When it's two candidates who hold similar stances on the issue, many blacks will vote on racial lines. However, this does not mean that they would completely jump ship just to vote for a black person. Lastly, I want to say that I'm deeply offended by the comments of pezled. While it's true that we shouldn't be trying to play the who-is-the-most-victimized card, to suggest that women's struggles top those of African Americans is absolutely ludicrous. As a female who is half black, I can assure you that white women have not had to struggle in the way blacks have. No matter who got the right to vote first, blacks still had to contend with growing up with segregation, poverty, inferior schools, police brutality, lynching....the list goes on. Additionally, if you are supporting Hillary just because she is a woman, then I can only say that the characterization of Clinton supporters as less educated is obiviously right.

    • Posted By: blwboo @ 03/10/2008 08:25:03

      Comment: So you think you had to endure more than me because I am a white woman? Well, I challenge you on that. I would vote for Condoleeza over Hillary. But, that is a moot point since she is not running. I am so sick and tired of all the whining about how rough the blacks have had it in this country. That pendulum swung the opposite way YEARS ago. Let it go already! As for Barack Hussein Obama, he never suffered as you say you did. He had the best of everything. So, if you think he identifies with your "plight" you are wrong. An why is it that he calls himself a "black" man and not a bi-racial man? I am sick of his talk, talk talk. That is all he is. He is no better than any other politician. Just less experienced.

      • Posted By: FeministBoomer @ 03/14/2008 20:11:35

        Comment: No actually, he has more experience in office that Mrs. Clinton. She has only been an elected official for what 8 years...........He has been in office for 12 or so...........Now I am a history buff I don't recall any white women being lynched............or having to look away just because a white woman was in their line of vision.........or being raped by slave owners........
        Maybe you can enlighten me........

      • Posted By: metzlerd @ 03/10/2008 14:11:00

        Comment: He doesn't call himself a black man. You do.

        • Posted By: sstansbe @ 03/10/2008 19:43:53

          Comment: Please explain to me how the pendulum has swung the opposite way. I never claimed to have been a great sufferer, just that I understand the suffering that goes on for both blacks and women. It's called empathy, you should try it!! But , of course, it's probably asking too much that a bigoted Conservative even know the definition of empathy.

  • Posted By: bktools @ 03/09/2008 11:26:54 PM

    Comment: Amen!

  • Posted By: ConservativeWoman @ 03/09/2008 9:13:16 PM

    Comment: We will never rejoice in a more united America until the Democratic party stops trying to divide this country on the basis of race and gender. The party that allegedly embraces all is divisive and, hopefully, dying. We need a two party system, but not with a party that has been hijacked by the radical Left. John Kennedy must be rolling over in his grave.

  • Posted By: JustMary @ 03/09/2008 6:59:14 PM

    Comment: A great story and testimony. One day, we will all be able to rejoice in a more united America.

  • Posted By: JustMary @ 03/09/2008 6:57:47 PM

    Comment: I enjoyed your story. Someday we can all rejoice in a more united America.

  • Posted By: MEWWEM @ 03/09/2008 3:45:08 PM

    Comment: Regardless of his color, Barack Obama is a man who is just now at at age at which he is learning how little he knows! Hillary Clinton has been there and done that......She gets my vote any day.

    • Posted By: RA Chappy @ 03/10/2008 00:05:14

      Comment: Do your homework! Hillary has to many issues in win in November.
      She is not running on your behalf she is running as a Clinton.
      Her Tax records are going to reveal something very ugly. She can???t reveal her records until she has clinched the nomination. After you and I see who the deviant people are that are backing her, you will fall to your knees in disgrace and ask; O God what have we done! Do your homework before you vote!

      • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 03/10/2008 06:55:55

        Comment: Have done my homework and it will not be Obama I vote for. His few votes show us he cares nothing about the working class people and I don't care what is on the Clinton's tax returns. If you are so concerned please show us yours other than that it really is no - one's business what is on anyone else's and I don't care who you are!

        • Posted By: Pupster @ 03/10/2008 10:41:20

          Comment: Hey, you've made your decision, but your bias is showing. It was Obama who worked with laid off steelworkers when he worked as an activist and provided health care to Illinois' children while he was state senator. Many of us care how the Clintons left the Presidency deeply in debt from legal bills and are now multi-millionaires. What has Bill been doing? How are they now worth 10's of millions of dollars just off speeches and books? Who's been donating to the Clinton Library and what are they getting? You may not be interested, but those of us interested in the honest of our politicians are.

          • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 03/10/2008 11:03:28

            Comment: Who told you the Clinton's left the White House in debt? Hillary and Bill both work and have even written books. Explain how Mrs. O cut down on her hours at her job (according to her, she went part time) but her salary went up over $100K when Mr. O started to run for President? Coincidence, I think not. They are no more the goodies than the Clinton's are and when the Clinton's were in office, the everyday working class people like me where a lot better off that we are now. Sorry, but that is a fact!

            • Posted By: Pupster @ 03/10/2008 11:33:10

              Comment: Bill and Hillary had huge legal bills from his impeachment defense and all those sexual harassment judgments against him (remember Paula Jones?). His debt was in the millions -- go look it up.

              As for Mrs. O, I really don't know the circumstances. People get promoted sometimes. It happens. Her salary was still within the bounds of upper-middle class people. Hell, I made more than her in my late 20's. But please, keep defending Bill and Hillary. It's a thankless job, so at least someone's willing to do it.

              • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 03/10/2008 11:46:31

                Comment: Exactly as I thought, you are an upper class eliteist (just like them). Yeah, let us all get jobs, cut our hours in half and get a big raise. Have you checked out his voting yet? Probably not, because you would have to say that what I have said is correct. He votes with Bush on almost everything.

                • Posted By: Pupster @ 03/10/2008 12:03:15

                  Comment: Bitter, party of one! I can tell you are one of the oppressed being able to hang out here on Newsweek comments boards with us. I have checked his record and platform, and it's clear that you have not. Throwing out accusations like you do apparently doesn't require proof. And the thought that Obama' votes with Bush on everything' is laughable. Wny don't you check your gal's record?

    • Posted By: Pupster @ 03/09/2008 21:08:22

      Comment: And yet it was Obama who got it right on the Iraq war. It was Obama who ran on the change mantle, the theme Americans were craving. And Hillary not only authorized military action in Iraq, but she didn't learn from her mistake and authorized Bush for Iran. She just keeps getting it wrong and wrong. Even though she claims to have 'experience'. It only goes to show experience doesn't count for much without the temperament and judgment and the moral compass to do the right thing.

      • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 03/10/2008 07:04:50

        Comment: Mr. O voted to extend the war by voting to not bring the troops home two times (not once but two times). He also voted to give more money to the companies who were found to be ripping us off even after the facts came to light. So please don't try to tell us he did not vote for the war, he was not in office so there is no telling what he would have voted given the same info all the other were given.

        • Posted By: Pupster @ 03/10/2008 10:37:05

          Comment: Actually, his stance against the war was very public and if he had been in the Senate, I'm confident he would have voted against the authorization, like the 22 senators who did but not like Hillary who voted for the authorization. Funding after the fact, with troops already in harms' way, is a whole different issue, and I and many Americans can see the difference. Sorry that you can't.

          • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 03/10/2008 11:09:04

            Comment: Oh, sorry I forgot, he probably would not have voted he would have just shown up and voted present like he does if he thinks it is going to be able to be used against him later on down the road.

          • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 03/10/2008 11:07:30

            Comment: You have no idea what he would have voted had he had a chance to vote. There were a lot of people who would have voted different had they had the real facts so you can not pick and choose or even say what he would have done. Maybe, you should check on how he votes, because he consisently votes with Bush on about everything and that is a matter of public record.

            • Posted By: metzlerd @ 03/10/2008 15:05:03

              Comment: Actually we all have a pretty good idea what he would have voted. He made a public statement against the war at a time when anyone who spoke out against it was labeled unpatriotic. It took alot of guts to do that at that time. Anybody who wasn't beating the war drum was taking a fair amount of verbal abuse.

            • Posted By: Pupster @ 03/10/2008 11:35:11

              Comment: Real facts? Like the one in the National Intelligence Report that Hillary neglected to read before her vote? The one that 22 other senators read before voting to deny authorization. You know, Hillary never admitted she made a mistake, even though Edwards, Dodd, and Biden did when they were running for the nomination. Like I said, please keep slogging the lies, but those who've done even a bit of research don't buy them.

              • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 03/10/2008 11:50:25

                Comment: Actually, she has a few times, but at least she admits it. She is the one who said she did not read the report or did you forget that fact. I am still waiting for you to read how he has voted (the few times he has)!

                • Posted By: Pupster @ 03/10/2008 12:05:20

                  Comment: Please show us where she admits her vote was a mistake. She never has!!! In the last debate, she said she regretted her vote, which Tim Russert jumped all over because it was the first sense of remorse she has ever shown.

                  Yet another instance that you are making up your own reality to reconcile your support of Hillz. If anything, Hillary has voted more often with Bush. Be proud!

  • Posted By: Intelligent MBA @ 03/09/2008 10:58:29 AM

    Comment: I know that this may come as a surprise but Barack Obama is not a black man. Barack is as equally a white man as he is a black man. Barack was raised by his white mother and white grandmother and has never had to sit at the back of any bus or wonder where his next meal was coming from. Everyone keeps describing him as the son of a sheep herder from Kenya - he didn't even know his father.

    If I am to follow the African-American description, I would be described in every census report as being European-American. My ancestors came to this country from Europe and I was born and raised in the United States. My people were also discriminated against when they arrived due to their accent, religion, etc.
    and in Europe today there still exists discrimination based on these factors.

    • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 03/09/2008 11:35:42

      Comment: The whole point of predjudice is that you make a judgement about what you SEE, without bothering to find out anything about the PERSON involved.

      To that end, people SEE Obama, and they most assuredly SEE a black male. They don't see his white mother, his absent father, his influential 3rd grade teacher, his childhood teddy bear, his hopes and dreams, or anything else about the PERSON.

      When people SEE me, they see a white female. Now that I live in the south, when I speak, most people HEAR a damn yankee. They know nothing about me, the person.

      The whole point of an educated populace is that we are expected to learn about the person running for office, to look beyond what we SEE on the shallow surface, and reflect on what we find out about the PERSON.

      The point isn't who made whom sit in the back of the bus, who suffered the most, lost the most, squandered the most opportunity, or wins the Victim of the Year Contest - the point is that together, we all get to the front of the bus.

      If that takes electing a black male, or a white female, then that's what it takes, but personally, I'd rather just vote for a PERSON,

      • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 03/10/2008 06:59:44

        Comment: You are so correct, thank you but you forgot to add to check out where they stand on matters also.

  • Posted By: pezled @ 03/09/2008 9:33:12 AM

    Comment: It is time for the media to quit trying to find race and gender issues on which to attempt to base a prediction for this election. I will vote for the MOST QUALIFIED CANDIDATE (in my own view). It will have nothing to do with their race, gender, or who their spouse is. Race, religious affiliation and gender mean nothing in the eyes of equality - we have laws that address those problems. It's only the media that want to keep the controversy alive. GROW UP< TALKING HEADS!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: pezled @ 03/09/2008 9:20:04 AM

    Comment: As usual, I will remind folks that African men were allowed to vote DECADES before women OF ANY COLOR..........Who they voted for is their own choice and their own issue to face. Where all those men sat on the bus is all about men. In other words - WOMEN never made blacks sit at the back of the bus. We were too busy walking a few steps behind them. Regardless, it's clear that women have come farther and faster, even though men OF ALL COLORS have been running things (rather badly) for eons. That's not insensitivity speaking. It's just the facts.

    • Posted By: RA Chappy @ 03/10/2008 00:31:23

      Comment: Enter Your CommentGet your facts straight!!!
      Black men were allowed by law to vote but were they allowed to vote?
      When Regan ran for office, African American were disenfranchised. The story is to long to tell but it is a well-known fact that blacks were turn away in large numbers at the polling sights because their names were dropped from the registrars list.
      And too, the success of the women movement is a direct result of the civil right movement! Please don???t insult me or any other person who fought the good fight and endured the wrath for our effort to right a terrible wrong in the country.
      Regan was not at fault for this shameful act. Regan was one of those people who fought the good fight. Most people, Black or other wise don???t know this. And too, he stood up for women???s rights.
      White women were the worst for were about insisting on blacks sitting in the back of busses. White women urged their husbands to join the Klan. It gave them a since of importance and a since of power! Black people are just now elevating above the degradation and oppression of the past.

      • Posted By: pezled @ 03/10/2008 04:11:44

        Comment: Enter Your CommentFor starters, are you talking about REAGAN, the former president. Then spell his name right. As for your statements about white women treating black badly - show me some proof of your delusion. Clearly you are prejudiced against white women, you bigot. p.s. Reagan wasn't president until almost 100 years after African men got the vote - but, it's all his fault..... okay. And the womens right to vote came 40 years before the civil rights movement. You are so lost. GIve it up.

    • Posted By: Pupster @ 03/09/2008 10:15:14

      Comment: Actually, white women did make blacks sit in the back of the bus. That was a long time ago, but they certainly did, if you want to deal in facts.

      That said, we shouldn't be having a "who was more oppressed" contest. Instead, we have two individuals and we need to decide which is better qulaifired to run this country. Ithink Obama is the one. He is going to win.