The idea that blacks voting for Obama is racist is utter bullshit.
In any form of politics, people vote for their own, especially in a mold-breaking election. That African Americans are supporting one of their own at smashing down a racial barrier is hardly racism.
Racism is not just bigotry - it is the ability to exercise domination. There is no way that blacks have ever excercised racial domination in the US. Whether it be 3/5s of a person in the original Constitution through slavery through Jim Crow and legal discrimination - it was only 40 years ago that Martin Luther King was murdered, that black churches were being blown up, that civil rights workers were being murdered. The Voting Rights Act is not much more than 40 years old. Poll taxes and literacy taxes and Jim Crow haven't been rolled back but a generation. This is white domination barely restrained in our country's history.
And anyone who says that racism does not exist in this country is full of shit.
So how African Americans voting for one of their own is supposed to be a bad thing is just utter racism on its faced - it is an attempt to dominate by power against a minority.
The end of racism is for the dominant group, whites, to break the pattern of domination. That is being done far far more than any of us dared ever hope. We have a long way to go.
Bill Clinton is going around to all white communities saying "people like you" are keeping his wife in the race. That is a naked appeal to racism. The Clinton camp assumed they have black voters in their back pocket., damn were they wrong. The stunning thing is that instead of losing the African American vote by maybe 80-20, as blacks naturally supported one of their own, that the Clintons are losing by about 93-7. That is astounding. That should say something to everyone who tries to run racial politics in this country.
We aren't there yet but we are getting to a better place -
Obama has won in overwhelmingly white states such as Iowa, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and had those victories mocked by the Clintons and their supporters who claim Obama can't get white votes -
Bill Clinton complaining the race card was played on him and then denying he said it -
their time is over
Nice spin . . . BUT racism whether it's white against black or black against white or black for black or white for white should NOT be used as criteria for choosing the BEST candidate.

























