Posted on 05/12/2008 8:11:12 AM PDT by SmithL
In 2002, the Texas Democratic Party ran a "dream ticket" -- a Latino for governor, an African American for the U.S. Senate, and an Anglo for lieutenant governor. At one point during the campaign, a white political science professor expressed his concern that, with demographics changing, the Lone Star State might get to a point where the ranks of Democratic lawmakers would no longer include whites.
That story comes to mind as I consider recent twists in the soon-to-end Democratic presidential nomination fight, what Barack Obama calls the "politics of division and distraction." Part of that is the question of whether white liberals and other so-called progressives in the Democratic Party have progressed enough to allow African-Americans, and other people of color, to advance from supporting cast to center stage.
There is no question that the party owes African-Americans a debt of gratitude for helping elect Democrats in local, state and federal races since the 1960 campaign, when John F. Kennedy helped break what had been a Republican stranglehold on black support by getting the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. released from jail. Today, nearly 50 years later, the only question is whether Democrats will pay up by rejecting the rationalizations offered up by Hillary Clinton partisans that Obama, the candidate with the most delegates, the most victories and the most cash on hand, can't win because his support is not broad enough.
Clinton and her supporters rely on euphemisms about how Obama can't win over "blue collar" voters, as if there are no blue-collar African-Americans. But the message is clear and based on an uncomfortable truth: If Obama becomes the Democratic nominee -- as now seems likely -- there are a sizable number of white Democrats who say they won't back him.
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Rubin has two subjects he can write about: Mexican nationals as perfect people and everything else ‘American’ as racist. His editor must be very bored in that job.
“If Obama becomes the Democratic nominee — as now seems likely — there are a sizable number of white Democrats who say they won’t back him.”
It is because they are judging the content of his character and finding it to be lacking.
The only ones who are voting strictly along racial lines in this election are black voters.
“Clinton and her supporters rely on euphemisms about how Obama can’t win over “blue collar” voters, as if there are no blue-collar African-Americans.”
OK, then. He’s got that 4% of blue collar workers locked up.
The Dem party has used the ethnic bloc votes to elect white candidates since the 60s. Now that the ethnic blocs are demanding that the Dems reward them, the party hierarchy is leery.
Regardless of which side wins, the Dem party is due for a shakeup.
Taking their revenge for all those years of slavery by voting to enslave the rest of us.
Ruben is a huge bigot and apologist for Mexico. Everything is about race for this clown, his own.
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