Hardworking Americans . . . white only?
This letter is written with much concern over Senator Clinton's remarks about her "political base." The Clintons have made their careers with the support, hard work and love of African/African Americans. However, Senator Clinton has recently turned against those who have supported her and her husband over the years.
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The recent remarks by Mrs. Clinton have hit a core with me as a person of color and an African. Her statements stating: "Obama's support among working, hard working Americans, white Americans is weakening again, and how whites in both states who have not completed college were supporting me', not only were they ridiculous but humiliating to all Americans. Her remarks create the supposition that only white people are hard working. Or that only white people who did not complete college are hardworking??? Senator Obama has won more states where there was only 1% or less people of color. Senator Obama's campaign is focused on a Change that We Can Believe In where ALL Americans are hardworking…. African, African-American, Latina, Caribbean-American, White Collar, Blue Collar, College-Educated, Life-Educated. Senator Clinton's statements are divisive and destructive to this nation. How can someone who wants to be a leader of the most powerful nation in the world use divisive words like that?
Former President Clinton has traveled the world to speak and has received accolades from world leaders because of his African American political base. These troubling issues are a serious concern because the Clintons are held in high regards by people like President Nelson Mandela of South Africa. Mr. Clinton is invited to attend Mr. Mandela's 90th birthday on July 19 – 20, 2008 in Johannesburg. I urge President Mandela to denounce and reject the Clintons as they have clearly forgotten what it means to not only unify a party, but a nation as well.
Let us support the CHANGE THAT WE CAN BELIEVE IN that supports ALL Hardworking Americans from all walks of life. That is the Change that I believe in.
M. Baba Whisler
Jacobus
Jeff Spangler · May 18, 2008 12:32 PM
Not all hard-working people are white, of course, but there is a rational perception that the relatively high unemployment rate among blacks is directly connected to their apparently wide rejection of the education, standard English and good manners which will get and keep them a job adequate to support themselves and their families. Dr. Bill Cosby has been vilified for pointing this out in blunt terms, but he's on to something.