I caught up with my 1000+ Google Reader last night and it’s ugly out there. Racism, sexism and ageism reminiscent of the white progressive blogosphere circa 2006 and the gender vs. race war of the women’s suffrage movement when white women said they had to have the vote because black men shouldn’t have the vote.
Now it’s exploding on the national stage. I actually don’t think the Clintons are racist but will do anything to win including race-bait.
Booman laid out the Clinton Racial Strategy:
Here is how it works. The Clintons push some racially sensitive buttons and elicit an emotional response. Then they go
apologizeexplain themselves on the Al Sharpton radio show. The New York Times only covers the most innocuous of their comments. The result is that they remind voters that Barack Obama is not the post-racial uniter, but a typical black candidate, supported by serial whiners Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Nothing could undermine Obama’s campaign more among the white vote, and the Clintons know it. And there is nothing, nothing, that Obama can do about it. If he complains, he only makes it worse. If he doesn’t complain, these subtle allegations that he is a lazy, drug-dealing Muslim do damage all on their own.Congratulations to the Clintons. You really are good at this campaigning thing. I’m so impressed.
Bill, Bill, Bill…
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Japanese Bobtail // January 15, 2008 at 6:11 am
The media is having fun on the fight between Clinton and Obama. And I am afraid that they are intentionally making the public tired of the story, and prolong the selection of GOP candidate to stay behind the scene low key. In fact, John McCain is just a distraction they put up, and I am sure he will not be the final GOP nominee. Then, when March / April comes, somehow, the media will push GOP nominee as if he just appeared in the scene with the new look, to beat up whichever selected from Dem, Clinton or Obama. And somehow, around August, there will be a crisis, economy and war, and the Media will send the public to fear, so somehow everyone rushes to the guy from GOP. And when we wake up on Jan 1, 2009, the country realized that we made the huge mistake, and it is too late.
If we want to stop this worst scenario, we need to start working on examining GOP policies, finding as much issues as possible for their candidates. Let’s bring issues to the surface already, and make the public aware of their issues….
donnadarko // January 15, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Everyone should focus on the issues and progressive values.
What’s truly ironic is that it’s not the voters who are acting racist and sexist but the candidates themselves.
Goddess forbid there’s a “crisis” and people go for the Republican “security” candidate.
Politics and Intersectionality at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture // January 22, 2008 at 4:01 am
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