Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Charged with Making Racially Insensitive Comments
Hillary Clinton, her husband, and her campaign are coming under fire for recent remarks that have been made. They are being called racially insensitive remarks and offensive. Bill Clinton called Barack Obama’s surge a “fairy tale” speaking about Obama’s rise out of nowhere. Hillary recognized the accomplishments of LBJ for passing civil rights legislation. These remarks were interpreted as racist. As much as I would like to use this post to bash a racist Hillary Clinton, (and I am enjoying the fact that this is happening to her), that is not what I am going to do, I am going to go in a different direction.
I have been of the belief that during a general election that had either Clinton or Obama as the Democrat nominee that the race or gender card would be played. If Obama lost to the Republican, it would be racist American Republican’s fault. If Clinton lost to the Republican, it would be sexist Republican’s fault. We would hear stories about how America just isn’t ready, we are still so very, very far behind all the other countries. But I have been curious if the race or gender card would be played during the Democrat primary season. I was curious if the people who actually had to decide between a black man or a woman would have their feet held to the fire, and now I know.
First I heard stories about how racist New Hampshire didn’t vote for a black man. That pissed me off. I didn’t vote for him because of his policies, not his race, just as I would never, ever vote for Hillary because of her policies. That does not make me a racist or a sexist.
Now Democrat voters, you know, the ones who don’t care about color, race, or sexual preference unlike evil Republicans, have to chose between a woman and a black man and I want them held to the same standards as Republicans.
Do I think that any of these remarks made by the Clinton’s were intended as racist? No, but here is the problem. Democrats have been telling poor black people for so long that the system is unfair, and that evil, white Republican America is going to fuck them over every chance they get that they now don’t trust any white person. Including Bill (the first black president), and Hillary. Now the game the Democrats have been playing comes home to roost when you have an extremely viable, popular black man running for president. Any attack against him or his record will be seen as racist, while the same attack ad against a white Democrat opponenet will just be seen as politics as usual.
Democrats look at a person and immediately put them into a category- black, Hispanic, Asian, or many other hyphenated American names. Instead of just being American, we are all hyphenated-Americans. They are the ones who have divided America into different racial groups, all in the attempt to pander to them in the name of winning votes. They have made minority groups so sensitive that they see many comments that were not made with racial overtones as racist. Democrats have hurt race relations.
Whether or not the Obama camp thinks the attacks are racist is besides the point. Perhaps the Obama camp will use this as an example of how white America is trying to hold Obama down, even if it’s a Democrat who is holding him down. Or perhaps the mindset that the Democrats have set in stone in the black voter’s minds about white America is going to be the downfall of one of their own.
Democrat candidates should be able to attack Obama, or Clinton on positions they don’t agree with without being called racist or sexist. Democrat voters should be able to go into the booth and vote for the candidate whose positions are most like their own, regardless of color or gender.
Republican voters vote on the issues first and foremost, (except for Iowa), and that is what Democrat voters should also be allowed to do. But someone in Obama’s camp has decided to play the race card and turn this election into race versus gender when it should be about the issues. Once again the Democrats are dividing people, this time on their own side, instead of bringing them together, as they have promised to do if elected president. How are we supposed to trust them to bring Republicans and Democrats together if they are pushing themselves apart?
~mpinkeyes
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