Gotta keeps those black folks on the Dem plantation....only because they want and need their votes -- otherwise they could care less about black America.
What I find astonishing is not their race-baiting speeches, but that the right-wing press always seems stunned when it happens. They are reacting with such surprise. This happens every year on MLK day. Every Single Year.
American Blacks about about as dumb as folks can come. Hillary, Al Gore, their leaders throw them some red meat once a year and they get all puffed up over it. Yet, the next day they are right back where they have been for the last fifty years. The Hispanics, Asian and "other" minoritities are kicking their butts when it come to opportunity, economic progress and political power. The train is leaving the station and these poor folks are not onit and, they don't have a clue as to why. Follow Hillary Clinton and Al Gore and you will still be wandering in the wilderness fifty years from now!!!
Interesting talk from the party of Robert Byrd, slavery, The KKK, Jim Crowe, SPYING on Martin Luther King, etc, etc, etc...
There's no need for me to repeat most Freepers' reaction - this was hateful, slanderous race-baiting of the worst kind.
But I have to wonder whether even black liberals would be privately upset by the pandering, condescending tone. To me it sounds like "hey, lookie here! I'm in front of black folks! Why don't I make a cute reference to plantations, since I know all blacks think about is slavery." It just sounds ham-handed, and simplistic. I would be offended by being thought of in such a one-dimensional manner because of my race.
No, I didn't read the whole speech. But trying to shoehorn a slavery reference in seems so DUMB, on top of everything else.
Where has the intelligentsia of the Democratic party gone?They may have not noticed it but they started a loosing streak about a decade ago. The worse it gets for them the worse the dialog. This doesn't offer hope to voters.
It amuses me greatly to hear guilt-laden white liberals attack their own race while conveniently excluding themselves from the same analysis.
