blogA vote for Clinton is, alas, a vote against progress
I’m voting for Barack Obama in the New York primary on Tuesday. There are all kinds of excellent reasons to do so, which I don’t need to rehash here.
But for wafflers and fence-sitters and even more or less committed Clinton voters who happen to be white, here’s another reason: every white vote that Obama gets will be counted by the media (and historians) as a bit of proof that America is measurably and truly moving beyond its most tragic history, and every white vote that Hillary Clinton gets will be counted as a race-based anti-black vote. Unfair and unfortunate, but that’s the way it is. In this instance, perception will be reality.
So: Clinton voters need to understand that if their candidate wins, they will be part of a depressing morning-after metric rather than a hopeful one.
With brilliant subtlety, this essay punctures the thought balloon of guilt-ridden white liberals who feel they must make Obama our first Affirmative Action president as an act of atonement and to insure that their names do not appear on Santa’s “Racially naughty” list.
Hysterically funny.
This was meant to be funny, right? Right?
Comment by WylieD — February 7, 2008 @ 8:20 pm
Lest we forget…
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she (Hillary Clinton) said in the interview, citing an article by The Associated Press.
It “found how Senator 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.” (emphasis added)
“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.
See “Clinton Touts White Support” by Kate Phillips at http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/clinton-touts-white-support/?hp
Comment by Annah — April 15, 2009 @ 7:00 pm