Comments on: Hillary Clinton: Ready at 3AM to Blow Up Some People of Color

By: Russell

Russell — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:23:57 +0000

Danny, The “race card” I was talking about is a political gesture to persuade others into voting for them. Obama is using this ad to persuade that Clinton is a racist, And maybe she is, I have no love for the woman, But using this as a card in an election is something I’ve seen alot of in many scenarios , And what I meant by my comment going on 6 days ago, Is that its getting old. Mind you furthermore, I am a Republican, But I am still following the Democratic election as I do every year. I respect your comment and I have reviewed the video, and have seen the things you mention, But something like that is not convincing enough evidence that she, Or any of her advisers, Her political “crew” if you will, Are racist. Thank you.

By: Aaron Chandler

Aaron Chandler — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:34:09 +0000

Kenyon — Have you seen this op-ed in the Times? If not, you should read it; it’s in the same vein as what you’ve said:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/opinion/11patterson.html

By: GREG

GREG — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:24:45 +0000

Oh I forgot. Danny Ocean what you’ll need to do as of now to take your mind off of the subliminal message being sent in a political ad is rush down to your nearest record store that still sales vinyl and pick up whichever weird al yankovich record is your favorite unless you already own it and play it backwards until you feel satisfied that weird al is part of a conspiracy to brain wash parody loving Americans into poisoning the rainbow trout population.

By: GREG

GREG — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:18:45 +0000

Danny Ocean it sounds like you have some deep seeded issues. I try not to make a habit out of apologizing but I feel sorry for you I really do. Please for your sake try not to bump your head even in the slightest way i’m afraid you might go into a full blown coma. Anybody who waits and searches out some lettering on a pair of pajamas on a beautiful little child needs to do more than spend there allowance money at the arcade.

By: Dreama

Dreama — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:54:30 +0000

Kenyon – a word of advice from an old-school blogger: moderate your comments and ban the trolls. Anyone who’s here to rant and yell can just go and get their own blog and do it there.

On point: these comments, like so many of the comments on Tamara’s story about her experience on a SWA flight, reek of unchecked and unexamined white privilege. You’ve got a swath of people who have never had to think critically about the issue of race in any way and are consequently kneejerking their way through whenever anyone makes a comment that should inspire reflection rather than reaction. It’s sad, because it’s the primary reason why the racial dialogue of this century cannot progress.

Now, countdown to someone claiming that white privilege does not exist or that they’re white but do not have this privilege for X, Y or Z reason commencing in 5, 4, 3, 2…

By: Danny Ocean

Danny Ocean — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:24:19 +0000

You don’t think this is racist people?
You probably also don’t believe in subliminal messages unless its musicians right?
Right when they say who will be to answer the phone at 3am they show the 3rd child she is mixed race look half black half white? And it says NIG on her pajama sleeve and above that is an upside down GA
You can get mad and say people are playing the race card.
But in your heart you know this is no mistake.
Oh and by the way-I am a white male-so how am I playing the race card?

By: GREG

GREG — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:38:13 +0000

Amber take the time and go back and read what I said before you put words in my mouth. I would like to know in terms that deal with facts what it is Barack Obama did that’s worth voting for. It is not a secret that people are and have said they are have or will vote for Barack based on color recognition. So my response is since the country is in such bad shape concerning our health care, economy and national security to name a few isn’t it ignorant to vote based solely on skin color. Besides what if and I did type if Barack fails horribly doesn’t that only set the stage for the first black president to be blamed for every thing that has gone wrong. I am not against hope but setting up somebody you supposedly care for so much to take the brunt of the political ass whooping doesn’t seem like a very caring thing to do. Doesn’t it make more sense to vote for Hillary and in doing so we know she is going to pick Barack as her vice. He’ll get a couple of years in the white house and gain the expeience he doesn’t have so in 2012 or 2016 he can take over with what I would bet was a surplus. We all know Bush f*cked up bad enough that the republican party won’t win for a long time not to mention our generation atleast seems more independent democrat and over all open minded. I would be more willing to vote for Barack if he was the vice president for a couple of years.

By: hannah

hannah — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:18:39 +0000

Constintina,
with all the insane media coverage this election is getting, any slight whiff of racism is published nonstop. hillary would be seriously retarded if she tried to pander to whites, because for all the whites who would appreciate her pro blowing up people of color ad, there would be even more of them who would find it repugnant, and she would tank in the polls. so i really doubt she’d intentionally put something out there that would be anything but PC to the nines just to cover her ass.

By: gina dentata

gina dentata — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:38:01 +0000

Ummm…where does it say that the phone call is about bombing anyone?? Maybe it’s a Tsunami, an asteroid on a collision course with earth or an attack on baby seals; or maybe the aliens have finally come to get everyone not wearing a tinfoil hat. You racist Obama supporters will use any stick to beat Hillary. You learn things after a while; don’t let your sister date Bill Clinton, don’t let George W Bush park your car, don’t let Hillary host a Friars club roast, and don’t give Obama a job that involves doing anything more than making a pretty speech.

By: Alisha

Alisha — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:04:31 +0000

“We’re not at war or even in danger of going to war with any predominantly white countries, nor have we been in the recent past.”

So not true. Don’t forget the balkans! Milosevic?