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Obama and Clinton Truce: The Ballot or The Bullet
January 16th, 2008
I guess they’re calling a cease fire and asking others to back off of the rhetoric.
I guess if I cared about the Democratic Party (I don’t!) or my primary concern was Barack Obama winning, then I’d abide by this; because if people start voting along racial lines, Barack loses.
But I’m much more concerned with Black peoples political health and maturity. I want them to see and recognize exactly what’s going on here.
As discussed Monday, Hill-o-ry has the very best negroes money can buy. They’ve been lining up from all corners.
Last night in the debate she still excused Bob Johnson’s trash, who she enlisted in order to use his upstanding-Negro credentials to give her cover in South Carolina for her race-baiting remarks in diminishing Martin Luther King’s role in the civil rights movement; supplanting credit due the actual civil rights activist by instead crediting President Lyndon Johnson; in an analogy where she cast herself as Johnson and Obama as King. Basically to say, Coloreds can dream it, but only white folks can get things done; elect me not Obama – I’m white he’s Colored.
Bought Negro Bob Johnson feigned being “insulted” that we would call a spade a spade and note Hillary’s race baiting, saying “To me, as an African American, I am frankly insulted the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues - when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood; I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in his book ”
As a thinking American I’m frankly insulted that Bob “pimp the Black community” Johnson thinks we’re so stupid that we don’t know what we heard come out of Hillary’s mouth with our own ears. And then he goes after Obama on personal short comings from his youth(as you know those are the days of your highest maturity and integrity in life) and insinuates that these white people have stronger Black credentials than a Black man who organized “in the neighborhood” around Black issues.
This amounted to a crowing racially based proxy attack by a Clinton surrogate from her stable of Leading Blacks
Bill Clinton on Rollan Martin’s radio show says “I think we should just take people for what they say on the merrits.” I think the guy who waved his finger at the camera and said “I did not have sex with that woman, Mrs. Lewinskey, not a single time” and said that “it depends on what the meaning of the word is, is” is in no position to say diddly squat about taking people’s word for what they say since his word isn’t worth ink on a wet piece of toilet paper.
Then Billy Boy goes on to say that he sought out former appointee Mary Frances Berry who went through the history of that era with him and found Hillary’s MLK/LBJ statement to be factually correct. As usual when white folks say something racially diminishing, they go find themselves a “prominent” Negro to give them cover. Having ‘The Best Negroes Money Can Buy‘ makes that never difficult for the Clintons.
They can go get as many highfalutin Negroes as they want; they’re not fooling this Field Negro. I still know I need to go north to freedom; or in any direction away from Bill and Hillary.
I’ll never forget what they’ve said and done in this campaign.
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As Malcolm X spoke of the 1964 election, and the players involved, so rings true now (speaking of Lyndon Johnson by the way):
It was the black man’s vote that put the present administration in Washington, D.C. Your vote, your dumb vote, your ignorant vote, your wasted vote put in an administration in Washington, D.C., that has seen fit to pass every kind of legislation imaginable, saving you until last, then filibustering on top of that. And your and my leaders have the audacity to run around clapping their hands and talk about how much progress we’re making. And what a good president we have. If he wasn’t good in Texas, he sure can’t be good in Washington, D.C. Because Texas is a lynch state. It is in the same breath as Mississippi, no different; only they lynch you in Texas with a Texas accent and lynch you in Mississippi with a Mississippi accent. And these Negro leaders have the audacity to go and have some coffee in the White House with a Texan, a Southern cracker—that’s all he is—and then come out and tell you and me that he’s going to be better for us because, since he’s from the South, he knows how to deal with the Southerners. What kind of logic is that? Let Eastland be president, he’s from the South too. He should be better able to deal with them than Johnson.
In this present administration they have in the House of Representatives 257 Democrats to only 177 Republicans. They control two-thirds of the House vote. Why can’t they pass something that will help you and me? In the Senate, there are 67 senators who are of the Democratic Party. Only 33 of them are Republicans. Why, the Democrats have got the government sewed up, and you’re the one who sewed it up for them. And what have they given you for it? Four years in office, and just now getting around to some civil-rights legislation. Just now, after everything else is gone, out of the way, they’re going to sit down now and play with you all summer long—the same old giant con game that they call filibuster. All those are in cahoots together. Don’t you ever think they’re not in cahoots together, for the man that is heading the civil-rights filibuster is a man from Georgia named Richard Russell. When Johnson became president, the first man he asked for when he got back to Washington, D.C., was Dicky—that’s how tight they are. That’s his boy, that’s his pal, that’s his buddy. But they’re playing that old con game. One of them makes believe he’s for you, and he’s got it fixed where the other one is so tight against you, he never has to keep his promise.
So it’s time in 1964 to wake up. And when you see them coming up with that kind of conspiracy, let them know your eyes are open. And let them know you—something else that’s wide open too. It’s got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet.
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It’s simply amazing the way folks can bait and switch after they’ve knocked you upside the head then say “How dare you hit me.” Just more of the same old same old. I never would have imagined the number of prominent negroes would come out with this “protect massa at all cost attitude.” And what the hell was Rangel thinking…I don’t even want to get started…..ughhhh
You are providing some great stuff to ponder. I understand some blacks will support the Clintons, we have blacks that voted for George Bush. What upset me is folk like Tavis Smiley, who is a fighter for the black community. How can our so called leaders not support a brother that shares their values?
These are professionals AJ. Don’t try this kind of bait and switching at home, you might hurt your spine.
As for Charlie Rangle, this isn’t his frist time to come out Cooning, so I’m not surprised.
As I detail in this post, I don’t think getting a position from white folks equals racial equality: www.blackperspective.net/index.php/why-a-barack-obama-presidency-may-be-more-bad-than-good-for-black-people/
Also, as pointed out here, I don’t believe in voting for Black people just because they’re black: www.blackperspective.net/index.php/michael-baisden-and-the-mystification-of-the-negro/
That’s always going to be a factor in consideration no doubt; even a strong factor, but it doesn’t belie everything else. Politician talking a good game doesn’t equal sincerity. Plenty of terrible politicians said the right stuff in a campaign.
As I will point out in a post later tonight, Barack is engaging in some other rhetoric that gives me concern about where his loyalties lye and who he’s going to be working for.
I like him overall, but he’s not getting a free pass up in here.
I prefer Obama win as what else is there?
I personally do not like Clinton’s politics.
Until elections stop being privately funded, and until the media stops deciding who we can and can not hear, most of everything is a moot point.
Honestly, I have been wavering. But when Senator Clinton likened herself to lbj, that was it. I remember that sob. You may not think it possible, but he was a bigger sob than bush/cheney.
As to that other guy, “…when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood; I won’t say what he was doing.”, this is just low-lifed, cowardly, reprehensible, slug level crap. If you don’t have the guts to say a thing, then just shut up.
Malcomb X video is great (what a loss) but it covers the top part of the Stepha Henry article. Hope they got the right person, btw.
Cooper I agree. But that would take for the American public to get their heads out of their ass and demand fundamental change in our systems of government and elections; but everyone is too busy being doped up on sports, celebrity pabulum, or video games; or they’re being too partisan, worried about jocking for position to be concerned with the common good.
“You may not think it possible, but he was a bigger sob than bush/cheney.”
Somehow that doesn’t quite shock me. I never liked Clinton all that much but I was still giving her a little consideration up until a couple months ago when she ruled any substinative help for the sudanese. Now she’s just really making me despise her.
And what about covering the top part of the stepha henry article? This article is underneath that one, unless it’s not showing right on your browser.
We have the Amaerican Idol POTUS, its funny how the people who really do stand for change are ignored.