A Plea to the Democratic Party and to the American Public
The following post is one of the few political post that I have done on this blog. I keep promising myself that I will not turn this into a political blog, but as a patriotic citizen with a child who will inherit our mistakes and our stupidity, I have to speak out. I am a Democrat and I believe that there was a time when the Democrats had a strong vision. I’m not so sure this is true anymore.
Recently, Senator Clinton was quoted as saying
“Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when he was able to get through Congress something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do, the president before had not even tried, but it took a president to get it done.”
And of course her remarks have sparked a race war amongst the Democrats. And why wouldn’t it? Race has long been a way to prevent people from looking at the real issues. It has been used to separate the masses, and now it is threatening to ruin the Democrats.
My mother, a former Black Panther, taught me that while Martin Luther king was very important during the Civil Rights Movement, he did not work alone. His efforts would not have been widely noticed if not for the Government response. So what did Senator Clinton say that was so wrong? If anything she was knocking previous apathetic and uninterested politicians, not MLK.
I am tired of race being used as a weapon by politicians. Senator Obama, Senator Clinton’s comments were not ill-advised; they were historically accurate and the fact that you have fed into the garbage that has come to define American politics, is just as absurd as those who advised you to change your name for fear of invoking anti-Muslim sentiments.
It is about time that the American public stop catering to the racially-divided agenda of the power-holders. I suggest that everyone pick up a copy of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States and get a real education. Let’s focus on the true problems of our nation: the socio-economic inequities of the richest nation in the world. Let’s talk about why a small minority (the truly wealthy) has managed to corrupt Democracy and create a nation of ill-informed and mis-educated youth.
I fear that we will face another four years of Republican follies because the Democrats have managed to beat themselves. To a pulp.
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January 15th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Actually I wanted to thank you for that very thoughtful comment concerning both people mentioned
Until recently I wasn’t sure who I was for other than it had to be a Democrat in interests of we might never know what happened but November 00 changed this country. Though both Nixon and Reagan were horrible all the social changes of 40 years went backward in 31 days.
I’m not even really that liberal, but I live in New York and Hillary has never represented the interests of the people of New York
She’s counting on Bill’s true love of New York to do that for her.
That’s not why I’m for Obama. I began to see him as the only candidate in both parties who could truly unify this nation if he’s not scandalled to death.
I’m pretty known around the blogosphere for my First Amendment stances. Last year I was sure I would never support Obama as he is faith based. But I would rather have a faith based candidate who gives a damn than Hillary who in her seven years as Senator has failed this city time and again. Before 9/11 her pandering to upstate was understandable, after that day it wasn’t.
Nobody ever brings it up as if it’s dirty or the wrong thing to talk about. It changed my life and most Manhattanites lives forever and to forget that does a huge disservice.
I don’t know why I wrote that post other than I was on my way to a virulent stomach flu. I used to be very political but have lost any interest in arguing–you have no idea how sick the blogosphere was three years ago
I do know that people have forgotten about the job fairs and the dire unemployment in New York after 9/11. Hillary was in a position where she could talk about social inequality and act. She chose not to.
Bloomberg recreated this city in his own image and it has become a city only non-American’s can afford to buy in. There’s something really wrong with that
Race had little to do with my argument.
It’s the day to day life in Manhattan for three years after 9/11 and continuing to today that has everything to do with it
Manhattan shouldn’t be a play place for the very rich. I shouldn’t be spending most of my income on month to month expenses for my 600 square foot apartment and health insurance–and I “own” my apartment outright
Your arguments speak to my daily life. Produce that sells for $2.99 in Atlanta sells for $6.99 here–and we’re a farm state
I can afford to move out as I don’t have kids or a rent stablized apartment that’s “too good to give up.”
My friends only dream of that.
Please accept my apologizes if I offended you.
I like Howard Zinn very much.
I love this post. It’s very interesting to see the views of the daughter of a former Panther as most kids of ex-Panther’s I know shy away from any discussion about politics and that’s sad as it’s good to know their views and how their parents impacted them
If you would like to do a guest post on my blog, I would love it.