Whether or not you are thrilled by your choices in this election, the fact is that Barack Obama must be elected to at least retain the rights and protections we now enjoy.

“Plus, the Democrats have pandered to the black race thereby polarizing a country and hurting the cause against racism. ” — was posted by some man running for the presidency. If you’re offended by it, then you know you don’t need to vote for him. However, the reality is Barack Obama was a so-so candidate outside the pages of The Nation magazine and needed to win South Carolina to keep his race (political) alive. So Barack used homophobia (which you don’t say one word about) as a campaign tool and also used false charges of racism. Is that what the man was referring to? I don’t know. But I do know I saw the usual “Racist!” cries repeated by friends and family and I would have to go through it patiently. “Fairy tale!” not racist. Bill Clinton was pointing out Barack had been all over the map publicly on Iraq and was now pretending he’d had one position and stuck to it. I had to go through each of those false charges over and over. That wasn’t about the White community, it was knowing that when you cry “racism” — falsely or correctly — it stirs up immediate anger because we do live in a racist society. The Huffington Post published the campaign’s talking points on that sent out to the press. The ones that didn’t exist, to hear the Obama campaign. Barack even got confronted on it in a debate and had to try to weasel out of it. There was no racism used by the Clinton campaign. Barack has used pot and cocaine. He had no problem mentioning it in books or making jokes about it on The Tonight Show. Suddenly, anyone else mentions it and it’s racism? Was it racism in 1992 to note Bill Clinton’s admission of pot? When the BET president mentioned it, the Barack campaign couldn’t scream racism the way they did when the White guy mentioned it so instead it was attack BET. Surrogates like Jesse Jackson Jr. and Melissa Harris Lacewell went on Black radio and stated things that even in their worst lying on Charlie Rose and Democracy Now they didn’t dare say. But to a Black audience they lied like crazy. To a mixed audience, Melissa’s biggest lie was probably on Charlie Rose where she didn’t tell people she was working on the campaign, didn’t belong a journalism roundtable (she’s not a journalist) and felt the need to tell the White world that some Black people had turned against Tavis Smiley. She played ‘objective’ on that by not telling the White world she launched the attack on Tavis with her own online column “Who died and made Tavis king?” The candidate speaking of “pandering” was speaking of the DNC. This Black woman will state it outright, the Barack campaign pandered. They were hoping to create a response and they got it.

“Oreo cookie”? That shows up here, “It’s high time we made U.S. imperialist war crimes an equal opportunity endeavor. What we need is an Oreo cookie in the white house. Go Uncle Tom Obama!” I don’t know why Oreo cookie was used. But Barack’s not Black, he’s bi-racial. Years ago, 1/8 Black meant you were called “octoroon” and we supposedly and thankfully moved past that. Barack had a White mother and a Black father. He’s not Black. That may be what “oreo cookie” is getting at. But Barack’s not Black and I didn’t take offense at the comment. Those are two comments out of 31. You’re whining about how it’s not “a pissing contest.” But you refuse to address the sexism and you don’t even acknowledge Barack’s use of homophobia.
What I have seen over and over in the last months is false charges of racism by Barack’s campaign. And when anyone points out his homophobia, everyone looks the other way and acts mute. When someone tries to start a conversation on the very real issue of sexism, efforts are made to shout down that discussion and then claim it’s not a contest. Then why do discussions on sexism keep getting shouted down? Sharon Smith’s insulting post here didn’t impress this Black woman and I’ve yet to see a single post that addressed the sexism in the campaign while every Cracker in the world has shown up with a “It’s racism!” post. I’ma Black woman and don’t need to prove how ‘real’ I am. If I see racism, I’ll call it out, if I see sexism I’ll call it out and if I see homophobia I’ll call it out. I think it’s past time we start asking that others do the same.
If you missed it, Barack cried “racism” falsely again and just demonstrated all over again that he’s not Black. Betty pointed it out wonderfully:
http://thomasfriedmanisagreatman.blogspot.com/2008/06/pack-it-in-ms-magazine-youre-pathetic.html
“Babys mama” hasn’t referred just to unmarried mothers in some time. But no need to know about that for the out of touch Crackers so quick to advance the ‘poor suffering Barack’ meme. Betty highlights a 2006 article on the term changing but makes the point strongest by citing Prince who is heavy in his no-sex-outside-of-marriage period these days and just used the term in a song. Cracker may be offensive and I wouldn’t call someone that to their face but these White media ‘leaders’ are getting on my last nerve these days with their false cries of racism. It’s not helping the Black community and neither is Barack who has offered us nothing but wants us to all rally behind him because, though a corporatist Democrat, he had a Black father. At this point, Barack’s become the little boy who’s cried wolf (racism) over and over and when he really faces it, a lot of us won’t believe him because he’s screamed it at everything. (He is his campaign and he’s responsible for what they do.)

And when did oppression become a pissing contest? Last time I checked it pretty much sucked for all parties involved.

Are you guys just pretending to be progressive? You’re having me on, right? “Pandered to the black race.” Good god….

Vote for Nader, by all means, or vote socialist, by all means, but try not to sound like an ass while doing it.

Furthermore, SCOTUS? It was the Democratic leadership that gave us Alito and Roberts. Sorry, but Ralphie didn’t have a vote. Better re-read that section in your Civics book as to who appoints and who votes for such nominations.