Obama and Clinton were the only two candidates to attend the National Association of Black Journalists convention this week in Las Vegas. The "black" question popped up for Hillary in Vegas--"Are you black enough?" And at the same time, Barack Obama finally gave a serious answer to Roland Martin RE: “are you black enough?”
What it really does is really lay bare, I think, that we’re still locked in this notion that if you appeal to white folks then there must be something wrong,” he [Obama] said, adding it’s the same sort of suspicion many blacks face when they attend a predominately white Ivy League institution.
He said the question was “just silly.” However, the problem really is "white Ivy League." But based on his legislation and his concerns about issues that have clouded the horizon for decades for blacks in this country, I think we can say collectively, Barack you are black, welcome to the fold brother.
The news about Michael Vick (NFL quarterback) was not good. I hate torture, the sound of torture, the thought of torture and the talk of torture, so it was difficult for me to watch the Vick dog-fighting, dog-killing stories of the past few weeks. I did and the story itself is horrendous. But Vick tried in abstention by the media and the outcry coming from whites, whose ancestors were silent during the lynching of black people in the South, gives hypocrisy a new meaning. Dogs are not my best friend, I don’t care for them, especially knowing that drug dealers and gang members are breeding them, and keeping them at their homes to protect their drugs and their booty. So, I have little sympathy for Vick and his money and his dogs.
There you have it—the week that was weird.
Article comments
1 - Marti Abernathey
"By now the LGBT has made it clear that their struggle is parallel to the civil rights struggle of black citizens."
Parallel? Was that put out in a press release I didn't see? Are you trying to compare victimhood here? If you want to dig into civil rights, you only have to go as far as Coretta Scott King, who said:
"I have worked too long and hard against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concern. Justice is indivisible.” Like Martin, I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others."
Google "Coretta Scott King" and "gay". You'll see what a supporter she was.
One of the most prominent men in the civil rights movement was Bayard Rustin. He's the dirty little secret that hardly anyone will talk about. Ya know that "March on Washington" that was so popular? I have a dream? That was Bayard's doing. Gandhi’s nonviolent protest techniques that were espoused by King? That's Rustin's doing too. The reason you don't hear about Rustin? He was openly gay.
"The entire gay world (of all colors) has laid their burden on the doorstep of civil rights groups"
Laid our burden at the doorstep of civil rights groups? You've got to be kidding me. We are doing it for ourselves.
Not every gay family uses three mommies or three daddies. Many adopt children that others throw away. You don't seem to be too worried about sperm banks that give to heterosexuals, but you mock gays and lesbians?
Your mocking attitude has seeds in the past.
"Intermarriage between whites and blacks is repulsive and averse to every sentiment of pure American spirit. It is abhorrent and repugnant. It is subversive to social peace. It is destructive of moral supremacy, and ultimately this slavery to black beasts will bring this nation to a fatal conflict"
-- Representative Seaborn Roddenberry (D-GA) - December 1912 | Gilmore, Al-Tony (1975). p.108 - Bad Nigger! The National Impact of Jack Johnson. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press.
"Let this condition go on if you will. At some day, perhaps remote, it will be a question always whether or not the solemnizing of matrimony in the North is between two descendants of our Anglo-Saxon fathers and mothers or whether it be of a mixed blood descended from the orangutan-trodden shores of far-off Africa."
-- Representative Seaborn Roddenberry (D-GA) - December 1912 | Kristof, Nicholas D (March 3, 2004). Marriage: Mix and Match: New York Times
Growing up, I just couldn't believe that old saying about the oppressed becoming the oppressor. But it is true, and it's uglier than anything I've ever personally witnessed.
2 - Cooey Bono
I just saw a pretty weird episode of "Hardball" where they talked about age be a limiting factor for presidential contenders. What the hell, we're choosing politicians not soap opera stars!
3 - Heloise
LOL. And they thought my George and GOP article made no sense. Now you know where they get it from...LOL