Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Challenge of White Liberals

As a black politically active semi revolutionist, I have always held certain belief in common unity and common goals for the greater cause. I believe that over time thru give and take, progress is usually made and bonds form. However, many times, I get...over tones of what I like to call immature views from my white liberal friends. I’m a proud liberal/progressive thinker. However I’ve come to believce the following more and more based on the comments I’m hearing out of the Clinton campaign:

White liberals REALLY believe that THEY are the real reason for all the gains made by blacks.

Once you accept that truth...
...your understanding is no longer muddied with..."how could Bill Clinton compare Barack to Jesse Jackson?"...or..."how could Hillary give LBJ credit for the civil rights movement?"...or..."does anyone notice the subtle racial overture of the 3am commerical" or "why is Geraldine Ferraro so damn racist?"

Barack is, according to them, out of line. Out of his place. And they are furious, and feel betrayed. They gave him/us affirmative action, Clinton kissed black babies when he ran, they appeared at black churches...they always did us right...and we repay them with trying to do for ourselves. Ungrateful bastards all.

My man addresses this well (Shhhh...he’s white)





2 comments:

Scott said...

I really hope that after this election is over no one will walk away from it thinking that what the Clinton campaign says is representative of what white liberals believe. I believe that most of these comments that have been made over the last several months have been made because they have been calculated to divide democrats in a way that would slightly benefit Clinton. Sure, that's politics, and it's going to happen to some extent, but I really hope it isn't an indicator of what a large cross section of people really believe. I think the Clintons are about as responsible for improvement with race relation in the 90s as they were for the economy. Sure they did some things to help, but I think most of what we saw was a result of being in the right place at the right time.

Jonathan->Thought -> In->Motion said...

Yeah...I tend to agree with you Scott. I am disappointed by the attempt to rely on old fears and prejudices to scare up votes. This is appears to be just a giant power grab. They are willing to burn bridges and possibly even the party's well being to simply win power.