Some people I know of have condemned as racist 'plantation' references by black Republicans . ("Get off of the Democrat plantation!") I hope that those same people with remember their principles in 2008 when Senator Hillary Clinton wins the Democrat presidential primary.
The [Republican-controlled US] House [of Representatives] "has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about," said [Senator Hillary] Clinton, D-N.Y.Why would black Americans (the majority of the audience to which Senator Clinton was speaking) of the twenty-first century know anything about plantations? Does she consider it a simple ancestral memory or is it something more insidious on her part? Or is she simply playing to the rhetoric which will keep black Americans
Oh, they were mostly Katrina victims and were being addressed today, the commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s seventy-seventh birthday (it’s sort of astonishing that he would be so young had he lived). But what does being the victim of and being displaced by one of the worst natural disasters that has ever been visited upon the US have to do with the House of Representatives? And what do either have to do with the plantation slavery that was abolished 141 years ago?
It’s that 98% disapproval rate that President Bush has among black Americans. Might as well push for what might get you to 100.
So much for the “moderate” Senator Clinton. Keep the fires stoked! Keep hope (of another Clinton presidency) alive!
Today I finally had a non-confrontational political conversation with my great-aunt. She agreed that President Bush was as good a foreign-policy president as President Clinton had been as a domestic-policy president (after we, again, went over the definition of a ‘lie’ ). What we didn’t talk about was this: that President Bush is near equal to former President Clinton in domestic policy (this isn’t a qualitative statement for either). President Bush has two problems in achieving his domestic agenda, however, which his immediate predecessor didn't have:
• He’s not even remotely as skilled as President Clinton in talking up his agenda.
• He doesn’t have a Big Media talking up his agenda.
• He’s a Republican.
• The majority of black people have forgotten, never known, or forgiven the Democrat Party for its past and bought into the demonization of the Republican Party.
Therefore, President Clinton’s mate—along with other Democrats—have an open door to those most loyal of Democrats and can--without any fear--use slavery rhetoric with those who were the victims of nature.
Pretty handy.
I’m sure that you’re resting in peace anyway, Dr. King.
(Thanks to Jeff Goldstein)
