March 13, 2008
The Facts
Wednesday night Hillary Clinton spent a considerable amount of time apologizing to a group of members of a newspaper association. The members repersented black community newspapers from all around the country. Of those she apologized for was her husband Bill when he drew a comparison with Barack Obama winning South Carolina in 2008 to Jesse Jackson winning the vote in South Carolina in 1984 & 1988. Bill Clinton was responding to a question at the time about why he thought Obama won South Carolina. He was saying that it was not unexpected that Obama, as a black man, had won there. Hillary had won a lot of women votes simply because she, Hillary, is a woman, and there is nothing racist about that.
My View
All right! If the voters of our country are ready for a black president we’d better get use to the idea that there are going to be a lot of things said about him that someone doesn’t like; it goes with the territory. And the last thing the majority of our citizens are going to put up with for very long is tying everything to racism. Not every thing that is said about a person who just so happens to be black is racism, and vice-versa. I realize that particular mentality has been the accepted norm in our country for quite a while now, but we are moving into a new era. And it is time to accept the truth as the truth, not the truth as a lie. That means it’s time to quite reading racism into something someone says when we know darn well that racism is not at play. Yes, when someone screams “racism” they get a lot of attention and we know that is what many want. But time as come to put that aside, and to be honest & fair with ourselves and others.
We say much about the news media putting “spin” on a lot of things, and they do. But they are not the only ones who do that; many of us do the same thing day in and day out. If we hear something we don’t like or don’t want to be true, we spin on it by calling it something it is not. We often hear someone trying to correct something that has been spun, but we seldom accept that. And that’s because the person trying to bring us back to reality is using phrases like “it was taken out of context”, or “listen to the entire speech”, etc, but we don’t care. We have become so biased that we are not listening. We prefer to believe what is convenient to believe and not be bothered with the facts.
Now don’t misunderstand what I am saying here, or put spin on what I am saying; I wholly agree that there is plenty of racism left in our country. But if we sincerely want to erase real racism, we simply cannot succeed if we call things racism that we blame well know is not racism. And each of us need to make up our own mind of what is and is not racism instead of listening to people on both sides of the color barrier who profit from racism, which, in many cases, includes the news media. We need to get that chip off our shoulder.
Read more on the Hillary Clinton article here.
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