Not By the Color of Their Skin

Anyone who reads my blog is familiar with my distaste (polite term) for Hillary Clinton.  If I were a true blue Democrat or a liberal, choosing between Obama or Clinton would take all of about a fifth of a nanosecond.

Understanding why Michael Nutter would embrace Clinton over Obama is a serious toughie for me.  Yet, understanding this sort of sentiment from the mayor is a "gimme."

"Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to support another African-American," Nutter said.

"I thought that when Dr. King said that he wanted people to be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character, I thought that's what he was talking about," Nutter added.

Comments

[Greg]

Interesting Op-Ed, here is another interesting one coming from a former Clinton supporter. Keith Boykin, is a longtime blogger, whom recently suspended his blog to edit the Daily Voice, another site aimed at providing news and opinion to middle- and upper-class African-Americans online. Here is what Boykin states

"As a former Clinton loyalist, I can imagine this was difficult to write. Like many black people, I too went on a journey at the beginning of the campaign. I started out fond of the Clintons and their strong relationship with the black community and suspicious of the newcomer Barack Obama, whom I'd scarcely heard of. Hillary Clinton's "strategy" succeeded in repulsing/alienating me at the same time Obama's audacity began to surprise and inspire me.

When I talk to Clinton supporters now, they wince when her name is mentioned. They almost apologize for their support. They talk about "experience" and when I say "which experience -- running a racist campaign, being wrong on Iraq, being weak on illegal wiretapping -- which appeals most to you"? -- they either backpedal nervously or come out swinging with defensive, illogical bluster.

Even my moms after the Geraldine Ferraro flap was exhausted and dispirited at the effort to keep defending Clinton to herself and to me. She's still behind her girl, but one more Ferraro-like episode from Clinton or a surrogate and it will be "game over", I know. Even Howard Dean has stepped forward to call publicly for the Clintons to back down and STFU. Though the message is directed at both, we all know whose behavior he's really addressing."

Now Boykin has not choose to endorse Barack Obama, but he did write this interesting Op-ed.

Clinton Owes Obama An Apology
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-boykin/clinton-owes-obama-an-apo_b_93558.html

Here is some more insight into how the Clinton's lost a large share of the African American vote.
http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/03/the-pennsylvania-primary-and-t-000338.php