Barack Can Say Black, But Hilary Can’t Say White
Read the below excerpts from Peggy Noonan’s article regarding Hilary’s “white” comments.
…In case you didn’t get what was behind that exchange, Mrs. Clinton spent this week making it clear. In a jaw-dropping interview in USA Today on Thursday, she said, “I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on.” As evidence she cited an Associated Press report that, she said, “found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
White Americans? Hard-working white Americans? “Even Richard Nixon didn’t say white,” an Obama supporter said, “even with the Southern strategy.”…
…To play the race card as Mrs. Clinton has, to highlight and encourage a sense that we are crudely divided as a nation, to make your argument a brute and cynical “the black guy can’t win but the white girl can” is — well, so vulgar, so cynical, so cold, that once again a Clinton is making us turn off the television in case the children walk by…
First off she was referencing an AP report that stated how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting her, and that Barack’s support from hard working white Americans, aka “working class” was weakening again.
Is it not factual that white America, at least the “working class”, are turning more towards Hilary? The implication, as this article says, that Clinton is playing the race card is preposterous. She is stating a fact. If Obama said he is getting the majority of the black vote, would he be playing the race card, would he be labeled a racist? No, of course not, he’d be stating a fact. This double standard needs to stop people.
And then that Obama supporter, “White Americans? Hard-working white Americans? Even Richard Nixon didn’t say white,” What’s wrong with saying white? Do you not use “African-American” like it’s going out of style? So you can say black, but she’s a racist if she says white? Can we say double standard?
To address Ms. Noonan’s comments, “encourage a sense that we are crudely divided as a nation” We are, and you in the media have no problem t=telling us that we are. Every poll in America is broken down to white and black and Hispanic. You want to be able to use those terms freely, but as soon as a candidate uses the very terms that you do, she’s racist, or is playing the race card. Unbelievable!
And “the black guy can’t win but the white girl can”. I don’t like Hilary, but I didn’t hear that come from here mouth. You are implying that, and to be factual, he couldn’t win if he didn’t have a large white vote, just like she couldn’t if she didn’t have a large black/Hispanic vote.
All I can say is that if Obama said 9 out of 10 blacks support me, the MSM would eat that up…oh, he’s right, he should win, but as soon as a white person says the word “white” they jump on the race bandwagon. Stop throwing the card America.
Tags: Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, race, Race Card, Racism
